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Principal Power & Energy Infrastructure Lead

Anduril· Core Operations : Real Estate & Facilities : Facilities Operations
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Costa Mesa, CA$220k - $292kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior individual contributor responsible for power across Anduril's portfolio, from pre-construction design through operation, focusing on right-sizing demand, grid and backup systems, maintenance programs, and utility negotiations.

Responsibilities

  • Pre-construction & Design: Own the power narrative for every new site and expansion — from site selection diligence through design development, permit set, and commissioning.
  • Right-size user demand. Build load models grounded in actual equipment lists, duty cycles, and diversity factors rather than nameplate sums, and defend those numbers to designers, utilities, and finance.
  • Set the grid interconnection strategy: service voltage and configuration, primary vs. secondary metering, transformer and switchgear sizing, and the staging plan that lets us occupy early and scale later.
  • Define backup and resiliency architecture — generators, UPS, battery storage, paralleling and transfer schemes, N+1 decisions — tied to which loads actually have to ride through an outage.
  • Evaluate on-site generation and microgrid options where they shorten schedule, lower cost, or de-risk utility dependence.
  • Review electrical design packages from AE partners; catch the sizing, selective coordination, and maintainability problems while they are still drawings.
  • Build the cost and schedule inputs for power scope in capital plans, and flag power-driven schedule risk early enough to act on it.
  • Facilities Operations & Operational Excellence: Partner with Facilities to translate each new system into a preventive maintenance program — PM tasks, intervals, spares, and vendor service agreements — loaded into the CMMS before turnover, not after the first failure.
  • Own the reliability standard for electrical infrastructure across sites: infrared scanning, breaker and relay testing, generator and ATS exercise regimes, battery and UPS maintenance, arc flash studies, and label currency.
  • Establish power monitoring and metering standards so that load growth, power quality, and capacity headroom are visible per site rather than discovered during the next outage.
  • Lead root cause analysis on power events and drive corrective actions to closure across design, vendors, and operations.
  • Develop commissioning and turnover requirements that Facilities can actually accept — documentation, training, sequences of operation, and as-builts.
  • Build the playbooks, standards, and basis-of-design documents that let this work repeat at the next site without starting over.
  • Utility Strategy & Acceleration: Serve as Anduril’s connection to the industry, understanding the direction of alternative energy strategies and driving strategic plans for test, proof of concept efforts related to new solutions.
  • Serve as the primary relationship owner with investor-owned utilities, municipal utilities, and cooperatives across the U.S. portfolio.
  • Find creative paths to fast-track utility work: phased or temporary service, customer-furnished long-lead equipment, contractor-of-choice and self-perform arrangements, construction cost advances, and early-works agreements that start civil scope ahead of the full service agreement.
  • Negotiate line extension agreements, service contracts, rate schedules, and cost allocations — and know the tariff well enough to know what is actually negotiable.
  • Manage interconnection applications and queue position, and keep energization dates honest and visible to the project teams depending on them.
  • Track state, federal, and utility incentive, rebate, and economic development programs, and pull them into the capital plan where they apply.
  • Build durable relationships with utility planning and engineering staff so that Anduril is the customer they want to solve for.

Qualifications

  • - 10+ years of experience in electrical power systems — utility, industrial, data center, manufacturing, or mission-critical facilities — with direct ownership of medium-voltage distribution and backup power.
  • - Demonstrated experience taking projects from load study through utility interconnection to energization, including at least one project at multi-megawatt scale.
  • - Working fluency with NEC, NFPA 70E, NFPA 110, and IEEE standards, and with the arc flash, short circuit, and coordination studies that accompany them.
  • - Track record negotiating directly with utilities on service, tariffs, line extensions, and schedule.
  • - Ability to build and defend a load model: equipment lists, duty cycles, diversity, growth allowance, and the assumptions behind each.
  • - Experience partnering with facilities or operations teams on preventive maintenance programs, CMMS implementation, and reliability standards for electrical assets.
  • - Comfort operating as the sole owner of a domain — setting the standard, driving alignment across design, construction, and operations, and being accountable for the outcome.
  • - Willingness to travel to sites across the U.S. as projects require.
  • - S. Person status as defined by ITAR (22 CFR §120.62).

Skills

Required:Electrical power systems ownershipLoad modelingUtility negotiation

Benefits

  • Highly competitive equity grants (in many full-time offers) as part of total compensation
  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees
  • Data privacy and risk screening as part of application process
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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