DSX Energy Engineer

NVIDIA•Santa Clara, CA

7d•Onsite

About The Position

NVIDIA is seeking a DSX Energy Engineer in Santa Clara, California, to help advance the energy systems that power large-scale AI. The role connects NVIDIA’s engineering builds and standards with power producers, utilities, grid operators, and other partners, helping ensure reliable, affordable, and scalable energy for AI factories. The engineer will translate recurring development, interconnection, reliability, commercial, and community concerns into written requirements for DSX product management and engineering roadmaps. The role collaborates across NVIDIA and with external partners on behind-the-meter and front-of-the-meter energy strategies; leads technical workshops and architecture reviews; and supports early-access and field-validation efforts for DSX Energy capabilities. It also engages utilities, regulators, consumer advocates, and host communities on energy and infrastructure impacts, while representing DSX Energy at customer and industry events. The position works cross-functionally to align technical content with product capabilities and partner needs, and feeds field insights back to product teams.

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, Energy Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
12 or more years of experience in power generation, transmission, distribution, utility planning, energy project development, large-load interconnection, energy systems engineering, solution architecture, or a related customer-facing engineering role.
Deep knowledge of the electric power system, from generation and transmission through distribution, substations, utility service, and large-load facilities.
Ability to reason from rack-level load behavior back to the point of common coupling, including step load and transient response, ride-through, protection coordination, and harmonics; understanding of how large fluctuating loads interact with on-site generation and storage assets.
Working familiarity with large-load data center electrical architecture and ability to read and work from reference builds, one-line diagrams, basis-of-design documents, and equipment specifications.
Experience with behind-the-meter and front-of-the-meter generation, energy storage, microgrids, distributed energy assets, and hybrid power systems.
Understanding of conventional, renewable, and emerging generation technologies and their technical, operational, commercial, and environmental tradeoffs.
Knowledge of load-flow, short-circuit, stability, interconnection, transmission-capacity, and resource-adequacy studies.
Practical understanding of RTO and ISO procedures, utility tariffs, power purchase agreements, energy and capacity markets, demand response, grid services, and infrastructure cost allocation.
Ability to explain complex engineering, regulatory, economic, and community topics through clear technical mentorship, presentations, training, and productive discussions with varied audiences.
Strong cross-functional leadership and proven capability to guide internal teams and external partners without direct authority.

Nice To Haves

Direct participation in utility-scale generation, transmission development, large-load interconnection, or co-located generation projects.
Experience crafting behind-the-meter systems that combine generation, battery storage, microgrids, and grid-interactive controls.
Knowledge of power-flexible data centers, demand response, workload orchestration, and the use of AI factories as controllable grid assets.
Experience with utility rate proceedings, large-load tariffs, interconnection agreements, infrastructure cost allocation, or ratepayer-protection mechanisms.
Familiarity with advanced nuclear, natural gas, geothermal, solar, wind, fuel cells, long-duration storage, and other technologies relevant to reliable AI factory power.

Responsibilities

Build feedback loops with utilities, independent power producers, generation developers, transmission owners, RTOs and ISOs, EPC firms, equipment manufacturers, energy technology companies, NVIDIA Cloud Partners, and AI factory operators.
Translate recurring energy-development, interconnection, reliability, commercial, and community concerns into written requirements for DSX product management and engineering roadmaps.
Collaborate with NVIDIA teams and partners on behind-the-meter and front-of-the-meter energy strategies, including on-site generation, microgrids, battery energy storage, renewable and firm generation, utility-scale projects, transmission capacity, power purchase agreements, and wholesale energy markets.
Lead technical workshops and architecture reviews to help partners evaluate generation and interconnection options against site-specific requirements.
Support early-access and field-validation initiatives for DSX Energy capabilities, including power-flexible operations, demand response, grid services, energy orchestration, and coordination between compute workloads and energy availability.
Engage utilities, regulators, consumer advocates, and host communities on affordability, reliability, infrastructure investment, siting, land use, water, emissions, and noise; provide transparent information on tariffs, cost allocation, ratepayer protections, and project benefits.
Work across DSX engineering, data center engineering, product management, solution architecture, deployment, sustainability, public policy, and developer marketing to align technical content with product capabilities and collaborator needs.
Represent DSX Energy at customer forums, energy conferences, regulatory workshops, community discussions, and industry working groups.
Bring field insights back to product teams and track outcomes such as time to power, interconnection duration, reliability, flexibility, and documentation clarity.