Senior Electrical Engineer, Mission Critical Facilities

Ramboll • Los Angeles, CA

2d • $120,000 - $160,000 • Remote

About The Position

The Senior Electrical Engineer will join Ramboll’s Data Center Facilities design team and work on data center projects throughout every stage of development. The role involves developing electrical infrastructure solutions for enterprise, hyperscale, and colocation data centers, including addressing engineering challenges related to AI data centers and grid capacity constraints. The engineer will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and colleagues involved in site selection, environmental and regulatory due diligence, master planning, commissioning, and other stages of data center and campus development.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.
• At least 7 years of experience in electrical engineering and design using AutoCAD/Revit, with the ability to independently execute drafting through AutoCAD/Revit.
• General understanding of electrical systems and electrical and building codes.
• Familiarity with preparing and evaluating short-circuit, coordination, and arc-flash studies.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Availability for 20% travel, mostly day trips to project sites.

Nice To Haves

• Professional Engineer license.

Responsibilities

• Provide electrical data center design and oversight services to internal and external project teams.
• Develop proposals, scopes of work, and fees using client-provided information, requests for proposals, or client-facing meetings.
• Lead electrical engineers and designers in developing conceptual designs and design options, schematic designs, and final construction designs; oversee design implementation through construction for mission critical facilities.
• Coordinate and manage project engineering teams consisting of electrical, mechanical, and plumbing/fire protection engineers and designers.
• Develop or review equipment specifications that meet data center design requirements.
• Prepare or review bid packages for construction proposals and review and approve submittals responding to bid packages.
• Perform needs assessments and due diligence studies; develop and evaluate technical options, cost-benefit analyses, failure analyses, and total cost of ownership studies.
• Perform power systems analysis for complex, mission critical facilities and evaluate analyses performed by others.
• Assist with business development activities.
• Assist commissioning teams.

Benefits

• Excellent health and retirement benefits.
• Generous paid time off.
• Competitive base salary.
• The position may be eligible for bonus, overtime, or other forms of compensation.
• A comprehensive benefits package supporting well-being, professional development, and work-life balance.
• Commitment to employee development.
• A culture that welcomes employees as unique individuals.
• The long-term thinking of a foundation-owned company.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior