Anthropic
Data Center Power Generation and Microgrids Engineer
$320K–$405K
Remote-Friendly, United States +1 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Location
- Remote-Friendly, United States
Remote-Friendly US (Travel Required) - Experience
- 10+ years; posting also notes years required will correlate with internal job level requirements.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering, or a closely related field, or equivalent practical experience. Logistics also specifies a bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not for every role or candidate; if an offer is made, Anthropic will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa and provides immigration-lawyer support.
About the job
Own the behind-the-meter generation, battery storage, microgrid, and utility interconnection architecture for data centers supporting large-scale AI training and inference.
What you'll do
- Design and deliver on-site generation, battery storage, and microgrid systems, including temporary power, islanding, black-start, and resynchronization.
- Lead interconnection and power-quality engineering, studies, vendor diligence, technical specifications, and commissioning across multiple sites.
- Coordinate with infrastructure, hardware, compute, utilities, vendors, and project partners to deliver reliable power systems.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of engineering experience in power generation, microgrids, battery energy storage, or utility interconnection, including substantial on-site or distributed-generation work for mission-critical, data center, or large industrial loads.
- Hands-on experience with one or more generation technologies, including sizing, paralleling, fuel systems, and emissions controls.
- Fluency in interconnection standards and processes, including IEEE 1547, IEEE 2800, and utility or ISO/RTO requirements; ability to run or review power-system studies.
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering, or a closely related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- MW-scale battery storage, microgrid-controller delivery, large-load interconnection, substation or protection engineering, or renewable hybrid plant experience.
- PE licensure; EMT modeling or data center, hyperscaler, or large-campus microgrid experience.
Pay
$320,000 — $405,000 USD (annual salary; base salary)
Tools
ETAP, SKM, PSS®E, PSCAD, EasyPower, IEEE 1547, IEEE 2800, UL 9540
AI focus
Design power infrastructure to support training and serving frontier AI models, including large-scale ML training loads.
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative