8+ years of engineering experience in power generation or industrial power systems.
Bachelor's degree in electrical or mechanical engineering, or equivalent experience.
Experience managing generation projects from concept to commissioning.
Strong knowledge of gas turbines, reciprocating engines, and their supporting systems.
Ability to assess engineering studies and identify technical risks.
Experience coordinating across engineering disciplines and with various stakeholders.
Sound judgment in safety, reliability, and technical risk management.
Responsibilities
Develop power-generation concepts and site-specific requirements based on campus demand.
Evaluate various generation technologies and system configurations.
Define and review electrical and mechanical balance-of-plant requirements.
Translate AI infrastructure load profiles into generation capacity plans.
Lead technical diligence of proposals from OEMs, EPCs, and suppliers.
Coordinate interfaces across multiple engineering and operational domains.
Evaluate tradeoffs among availability, efficiency, emissions, and cost.
Benefits
Opportunity to work on large-scale AI infrastructure projects.
Broad technical ownership from concept to performance validation.
Collaboration with diverse teams including utilities and OEMs.
Potential for professional growth in a cutting-edge field.
Involvement in innovative power-generation strategies.
Full Job Description
About the Role
We are seeking a Design Engineer, Power Generation to develop and integrate power-generation systems for large-scale AI infrastructure campuses. You will translate campus load, reliability, schedule, and operating requirements into practical generation architectures and technical design criteria, supporting both behind-the-meter generation and hybrid grid-and-generation strategies.
This is an individual contributor role with broad technical ownership from early concept and technology evaluation through detailed design, equipment selection, construction support, commissioning, and performance validation. You will work with internal engineering teams, utilities, OEMs, EPC partners, developers, and operators to resolve interfaces, make disciplined tradeoffs, and establish repeatable power-generation designs that can scale across the portfolio.
Key Responsibilities
Develop power-generation concepts, reference architectures, design criteria, and site-specific requirements based on campus demand, phasing, reliability targets, grid availability, fuel strategy, site constraints, and operating objectives.
Evaluate generation technologies and system configurations, including gas turbines, reciprocating engines, fuel cells, battery energy storage, microgrids, black-start systems, and hybrid grid-connected solutions.
Define and review plant electrical and mechanical balance-of-plant requirements, protection and controls philosophy, grid-paralleling and islanding behavior, redundancy, maintainability, and operational modes.
Translate AI infrastructure load profiles and deployment schedules into generation capacity plans, equipment sizing, ramp strategies, performance requirements, and commissioning criteria.
Lead technical diligence of OEM, EPC, developer, and supplier proposals; review calculations, one-line diagrams, layouts, specifications, studies, schedules, and design assumptions to identify gaps and material risks.
Evaluate tradeoffs across availability, efficiency, emissions, cost, schedule, constructibility, scalability, maintainability, and long-term operating flexibility, and document clear technical recommendations.
Support equipment selection, procurement, design reviews, factory and site acceptance testing, construction issue resolution, commissioning, performance testing, and operational handoff.
Investigate design or field-performance issues, drive corrective actions with partners, and incorporate lessons learned into engineering standards, specifications, and future reference designs.
Qualifications
8+ years of engineering experience in power generation or industrial power systems, including responsibility for generation facility design or integration.
A bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience taking generation projects from concept and equipment selection through detailed design, with direct involvement in procurement, construction support, commissioning, or performance testing.
Strong understanding of generation technologies such as gas turbines or reciprocating engines and their supporting electrical, mechanical, and fuel systems, including protection, controls, grid paralleling, islanding, and black start.
Ability to evaluate engineering studies, drawings, specifications, and supplier proposals; identify technical risks; and make defensible tradeoffs among safety, reliability, cost, schedule, and maintainability.
Experience resolving design interfaces across engineering disciplines and coordinating equipment suppliers, engineering and construction partners, utilities, and operators.
Sound judgment around safety, reliability, constructibility, maintainability, and technical risk, with the ability to make decisions when requirements or information are incomplete.
Ability to document design requirements, assumptions, and decisions clearly and explain technical recommendations to engineering, delivery, commercial, and leadership teams.
Preferred Skills
Professional Engineer licensure and experience developing reusable engineering standards and reference designs across multiple projects.
Hands-on experience deploying and commissioning onsite generation for campuses or industrial facilities with demand in the hundreds of megawatts or more, including large load steps and rapid power fluctuations.
Experience co-designing and deploying battery energy storage systems (BESS) with onsite generation, including power and energy sizing, controls integration, load smoothing, and frequency support.
Familiarity with utility interconnection studies, emissions and environmental constraints, fuel-supply requirements, and generation permitting.
Experience validating generation and storage performance through dynamic studies and field testing, including load steps, load rejection, generator trips, and transitions between grid-connected and islanded operation.
Experience delivering phased campus power, including integrating temporary generation, permanent generation, storage, and utility service while maintaining power to operating loads.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
