Lead Engineer- Behind-the-Meter Power Infrastructure
San Jose, CA$164k - $246kFull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Lead Engineer role at AMD serving as client representative and technical validation lead for gas-to-power and behind-the-meter data center power projects, focusing on end-to-end power solutions from gas supply to data center load and coordinating with multiple stakeholders to ensure technical soundness, schedule realism, permitting compliance, and readiness for commercial operation.
Responsibilities
- Act as AMD’s technical client representative for behind-the-meter power infrastructure projects.
- Validate the full power chain from gas supply, pipeline lateral, easements, gas quality, fuel conditioning, and gas distribution through generation and electrical delivery.
- Review reciprocating engine, turbine, alternator, BESS, switchgear, transformer, substation, and protection-system designs.
- Assess whether proposed power solutions can meet data center load, redundancy, power-quality, maintainability, reliability, and commercial operation requirements.
- Review single-line diagrams, gas-flow diagrams, basis-of-design documents, permit matrices, equipment specifications, commissioning plans, and project schedules.
- Validate gas supply assumptions, pipeline routes, right-of-way and easement status, crossing permits, gas pressure, gas quality, and backup fuel strategies.
- Evaluate generator sizing, derating, heat rate, emissions controls, alternator performance, paralleling switchgear, and maintenance strategies.
- Review medium-voltage and high-voltage architecture, including MV collectors, main power transformers, substations, ring bus design, relay protection, grounding, and islanding logic.
- Support review of grid-forming BESS, load-step response, dynamic stability, frequency control, harmonic performance, and AI workload transient behavior.
- Identify missing permits, unresolved approvals, construction-sequencing risks, equipment lead-time risks, and commissioning gaps.
- Define technical decision points for design freeze, permit clearance, initial gas delivery, initial generator operation, synchronization, load testing, islanding, failover testing, and commercial operation.
- Prepare clear technical risk summaries, executive briefings, open-item trackers, and recommendations regarding project readiness and conditions required to proceed.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, Energy Engineering, Civil Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent relevant experience in complex power or infrastructure projects.
- Professional Engineer license preferred but not required unless necessary for specific job responsibilities.
- Equivalent experience in large-scale power generation, utility, data center, industrial infrastructure, or comparable projects will be considered.
Skills
Required:Technical risk assessment and communicationPower system design review
Benefits
- Benefits offered are described in AMD benefits at a glance.
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