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Volta is building a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform with a mission to make compute as dependable and available as electricity. The company has secured $10B in strategic partnerships, Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund. With 100+ employees across London, Palo Alto, and New York, Volta is rapidly scaling its operations.
As Director of Electrical Engineering, you will be Volta's subject matter expert and design authority for electrical engineering across the global portfolio of AI factories. You will report to the Senior Director, Infrastructure Engineering and own all electrical engineering input across EMEA and AMER regions from concept through commissioning and energization.
Key responsibilities include:
- Serving as electrical SME and design authority for all AI factories, owning electrical input from utility interconnection through to the rack
- Developing, deploying, and maintaining Volta's electrical design standards, specifications, and basis of design documents, ensuring consistent application across all projects and regions
- Providing electrical input to Volta's Reference Design, balancing performance, reliability, energy efficiency, cost, speed of delivery, and scalability
- Owning power architecture including redundancy topology, UPS, energy storage, standby generation, and power distribution to the rack
- Supporting live projects with electrical expertise from concept through energization, resolving technical issues to maintain delivery schedules
- Tracking evolution of AI hardware and power architectures (rising rack densities, GPU load dynamics, higher voltage distribution) and translating into updated electrical standards
- Leading electrical design reviews and technical assurance, including load flow, short circuit, protection coordination, and arc flash studies
- Collaborating with mechanical, controls, and structural SMEs to optimize overall design for safety, speed, and cost
- Working with Procurement to standardize specifications for long-lead electrical equipment and enable framework agreements and modular delivery
- Championing safety in design, reliability, maintainability, and energy efficiency
- Embedding lessons learned from delivery and operations into electrical standards
- Directing electrical scope of external design partners, mentoring engineers, and building out the electrical engineering team
- Providing electrical engineering status, risk, and decision reporting to senior leadership
Requirements:
- Degree in electrical or building services engineering; chartered or professional engineer status (CEng or PE) preferred
- Significant experience in data centre or mission critical electrical engineering, including senior technical leadership of electrical design on large-scale programmes
- Deep technical expertise in data centre power distribution, including medium and low voltage systems, UPS, standby generation, redundancy topologies, and protection
- Track record developing and deploying electrical design standards, reference designs, or basis of design documents for hyperscale, colocation, or large-scale data centre developers
- Hands-on experience designing and delivering high-density power for AI and HPC workloads, including power distribution to the rack, and understanding of how GPU cluster power requirements and load behavior drive facility design
- Familiarity with codes and standards governing data centre electrical design in Europe and North America (IEC standards, NEC)
- Strong commercial judgment, balancing capex, schedule, reliability, and operability in electrical design decisions
- Confident communication able to explain complex technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executives
- Collaborative style that builds trust with peers across partner teams, with conviction to hold the line on standards
