# Electrical Engineer, Power Generation

About the Team OpenAI, in close collaboration with our capital and delivery partners, is building the infrastructure required to support frontier AI systems. The Data Center Engineering team defines repeatable technical standards and carries them through design, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness. The team works across data center facilities, power generation, compute infrastructure, construction, procurement, and operations to deliver reliable capacity at unprecedented scale and speed. About the Role We are seeking an Electrical Engineer to design and integrate on-site power-generation systems for large AI data center campuses. You will work across generation, substations, medium-voltage distribution, protection, auxiliary systems, grid interfaces, and data center loads. This role will establish technical requirements, evaluate technology and vendor solutions, and carry electrical designs from concept through commissioning and validated operation. Travel: 50% Responsibilities Develop electrical architectures, one-lines, design criteria, specifications, and studies for generation plants and campus interconnections. Design and review generator or alternator inte

- **Id**: 3892038
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/openai-electrical-engineer-power-generation>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T21:41:58Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T02:59:35Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5739
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Conversational AI, Code Intelligence, Foundation Models, AI Research Labs

## Company

- **Id**: 2
- **Name**: OpenAI
- **Domain**: openai.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/openai>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 79
- **Open postings**: 199
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.829
- **Repost share**: 0.01
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 51
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 257000
- **Max**: 327000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 327000

## Technologies

- **NERC CIP** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **ETAP** — Optional: yes
- **PSCAD** — Optional: yes
- **PSS/E** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T21:48:48Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 262 · green card filings: 3; Filings 12m: 262

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 51
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 327000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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