Electrical Design Engineer - AI Infrastructure

Keen to join a company that champions growth and development?

Join a rapidly scaling AI-focused hyperscaler delivering powerful, full-stack cloud infrastructure for AI developers, enterprises, and scientific institutions globally. Backed by significant capital and an aggressive international footprint, the organization designs and operates high-density, green energy-powered GPU data center campuses engineered for complex generative AI workloads and large-scale model training.

The company is seeking a Senior Director of Data Center Facilities Design to lead facility engineering strategy and high-density campus design across Europe and international markets. In this senior leadership role, the successful candidate will partner with Site Acquisition, Technical Due Diligence, and Construction teams to evaluate prospective hyperscale sites, validate high-capacity electrical design standards, and define global infrastructure specifications from initial concept through execution.

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Responsibilities:

• Own end to end electrical facilities design strategy across new hyperscale builds and major campus expansions
• Travel regularly across EMEA and internationally to assess prospective data center sites alongside the Site Acquisition and Technical Due Diligence teams
• Evaluate site electrical infrastructure, identifying technical risks, constraints and feasibility before land or capacity is acquired
• Define and standardise electrical design principles across multiple global regions
• Lead design reviews, ensuring scalability, efficiency and operational resilience
• Provide technical oversight across substations, MV/LV distribution, UPS, generators and critical power infrastructure
• Act as the senior technical authority for complex design decisions and engineering trade offs
• Collaborate with design consultants, utilities, vendors, construction and operations teams throughout the project lifecycle
• Support commissioning strategy and ensure a seamless transition from construction into live operations
• Drive long term capacity planning, AI ready power architecture and design innovation across the global portfolio

Skills/Must Have:

• Extensive experience designing electrical systems for hyperscale or large scale data centers
• Strong background within mission critical environments, ideally supporting global infrastructure programmes
• Experience assessing technical feasibility of new sites or supporting early stage data center development projects
• Deep understanding of substations, MV/LV distribution, UPS, generators and critical electrical infrastructure
• Experience influencing designs from concept through construction and commissioning
• Comfortable travelling regularly across Europe with occasional wider international travel
• Confident reviewing and challenging consultant and vendor designs at a senior level
• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience working across engineering, acquisitions and executive leadership teams

Benefits:

• Bonus scheme
• Share scheme
• Pension scheme
• Flexible hybrid working
• EMEA based with regular international travel
• Opportunity to influence the global rollout of next generation AI hyperscale campuses

Salary:

• Up to €130,000 gross per year