Senior Innovation Engineer - Electrical Systems

Boom Supersonic•Centennial, CO

4d•$124,800 - $187,050

About The Position

Boom Supersonic is building Superpower, a 42-megawatt industrial gas turbine designed for frontier AI data centers where power demand is rapidly increasing. This role is responsible for the medium-voltage electrical system that converts shaft power into dependable 13.8kV electrical power, ensuring it is protected, controlled, and delivered reliably to islanded loads. This is a critical role in designing and implementing a scalable power architecture for next-generation AI data centers, operating at industrial scale without grid reliance for stability. The engineer will define from first principles how a standalone 13.8kV machine starts, regulates voltage and frequency, handles transients, protects itself, and delivers power to critical loads. Grid interconnect is an option, but off-grid operation is the primary design condition.

Requirements

Deep hands-on experience with medium-voltage systems, including switchgear, breakers, protective relaying, grounding, and generator integration in industrial or power-generation environments.
Solid understanding of rotating machinery: generator behavior, excitation, AVR systems, synchronization, and transient response under load, faults, and trips.
Experience with protection coordination, including relay selection, settings, differential and overcurrent schemes, and the ability to own this work from study through commissioning.
Ability to read and produce clean MV electrical drawings (one-lines, wire diagrams, panel layouts) that can be built and commissioned without ambiguity.
Comfort working across mechanical, controls, and instrumentation teams and translating between them when needed.
U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Nice To Haves

A clear point of view on how medium-voltage systems should be built.
Enjoys tracing issues during first energization and testing.
Comfortable working on switchgear lineups and producing coordination studies.
Desire to be the primary driver of system functionality.

Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end electrical design of the 13.8kV medium-voltage system on Superpower, from architecture through first energization, endurance testing, and field commissioning.
Define the MV architecture, single-line diagrams, protection philosophy, and concept of operations during preliminary design.
Specify and source long-lead switchgear and generator circuit breakers.
Produce protection coordination studies, relay settings, and MV electrical drawings during detailed design.
Lead first energization, relay commissioning, synchronization, load acceptance, and step-load testing.
Manage generation, distribution, and protection of all medium-voltage power from generator terminals through switchgear to downstream loads and optional grid interconnect.
Oversee generator excitation, voltage regulation, and interface requirements with the turbine control system.
Design switchgear and breaker systems, including generator circuit breakers, feeder breakers, and bus-tie configurations.
Select, set, and coordinate protection relays, including differential, overcurrent, ground fault, voltage, and frequency protection.
Perform fault-current management, interrupting-duty analysis, and equipment rating coordination.
Ensure frequency control, synchronization, and load acceptance for islanded operation.
Select CT/PT, and design metering and sensing infrastructure for protection, control, and monitoring.
Integrate MV load banks, manage transient response, and conduct step-load testing.
Define the neutral grounding strategy and ground fault detection.
Conduct arc-flash hazard analysis, design electrical safety systems, and interlock design.