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Salary: USD 220,000 - 292,000 / annual
Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, is seeking a Principal Power & Energy Infrastructure Lead to own electrical power systems across the company's manufacturing, test, and office portfolio. This is a senior individual contributor role with no direct reports on day one, but significant influence over design decisions, capital plans, and utility negotiations across all sites.
You will serve as the single technical owner for power infrastructure, sitting at the intersection of pre-construction design, facilities operations, and utility relations. Your responsibilities span three core areas:
**Pre-Construction & Design:** Own the power narrative for every new site and expansion from site selection through commissioning. Right-size user demand by building load models grounded in actual equipment lists, duty cycles, and diversity factors. Set grid interconnection strategy including service voltage, metering configuration, transformer sizing, and staging plans. Define backup and resiliency architecture (generators, UPS, battery storage, transfer schemes) tied to actual load requirements. Evaluate on-site generation and microgrid options. Review electrical design packages from architectural/engineering partners to catch sizing and coordination issues early. Build cost and schedule inputs for power scope in capital plans and flag power-driven schedule risk.
**Facilities Operations & Operational Excellence:** Partner with Facilities to translate new systems into preventive maintenance programs loaded into the CMMS before turnover. Own reliability standards across sites including infrared scanning, breaker testing, generator exercise regimes, battery maintenance, arc flash studies, and label currency. Establish power monitoring and metering standards for visibility into load growth and capacity headroom. Lead root cause analysis on power events and drive corrective actions. Develop commissioning and turnover requirements that operations can accept. Build playbooks, standards, and basis-of-design documents for repeatable execution.
**Utility Strategy & Acceleration:** Serve as Anduril's primary relationship owner with investor-owned utilities, municipal utilities, and cooperatives across the U.S. portfolio. Understand alternative energy strategies and drive strategic plans for proof-of-concept efforts. Find creative paths to fast-track utility work through phased service, customer-furnished equipment, and early-works agreements. Negotiate line extension agreements, service contracts, rate schedules, and cost allocations. Manage interconnection applications and keep energization dates visible to project teams. Track state, federal, and utility incentive programs. Build durable relationships with utility planning and engineering staff.
Expect approximately 25–40% travel to active project sites and utility meetings. Work includes time in active construction and manufacturing environments with appropriate PPE, and occasional after-hours support for outages, switching, and commissioning.
**REQUIREMENTS:**
- 10+ years of experience in electrical power systems (utility, industrial, data center, manufacturing, or mission-critical facilities) with direct ownership of medium-voltage distribution and backup power
- Demonstrated experience taking projects from load study through utility interconnection to energization, including at least one multi-megawatt scale project
- Working fluency with NEC, NFPA 70E, NFPA 110, and IEEE standards, and with arc flash, short circuit, and coordination studies
- Track record negotiating directly with utilities on service, tariffs, line extensions, and schedule
- Ability to build and defend load models: equipment lists, duty cycles, diversity, growth allowance, and underlying assumptions
- Experience partnering with facilities or operations teams on preventive maintenance programs, CMMS implementation, and reliability standards for electrical assets
- Comfort operating as the sole owner of a domain — setting standards, driving alignment across design, construction, and operations, and being accountable for outcomes
- Willingness to travel to sites across the U.S. as projects require
- U.S. Person status as defined by ITAR (22 CFR §120.62)
**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:**
- Professional Engineer (PE) license in electrical engineering, or equivalent depth without the license
- Prior experience inside a utility (distribution planning, key accounts, or service engineering)
- Experience with on-site generation, battery energy storage, or microgrid design and controls
- Familiarity with high-growth manufacturing environments where power demand changes faster than the plan of record
- Experience with SCADA, power monitoring platforms, or building management system integration
- Exposure to secure or classified facility requirements
