TAR
Applications Engineer
Austin · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of engineering experience, with significant time in applications, solutions, or pre-sales engineering, owner's engineering, or project development for data centers, power, or other critical infrastructure.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering degree backed by deep, hands-on electrical power experience.
About the job
Owns technical qualification of non-standard sites and deals for renewable-powered, off-grid data center infrastructure, making fit decisions and assessing cost, schedule, and execution implications.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain technical qualification criteria, screening tools, and decision gates for non-standard opportunities.
- Make and communicate technical fit/no-fit recommendations, including assumptions, risks, costs, and schedule implications.
- Assess site conditions and electrical, thermal, civil, supply-chain, and construction constraints; feed findings into TAR’s standard designs and execution playbook.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering degree backed by deep, hands-on electrical power experience.
- Strong electrical power systems background, including MV/LV distribution, single-line diagrams, utility service, protection and redundancy topologies, and applicable codes and standards such as NEC and IEEE.
- Working fluency across thermal and cooling, civil and site work, and construction and deployment.
- Demonstrated business judgment translating technical conditions into capex, $/MW, and schedule impact, and making or shaping go/no-go decisions.
Nice to have
- Experience with data center electrical and mechanical infrastructure, including liquid cooling or modular and prefabricated deployments.
- PE licensure.
Pay
Up to $15K relocation bonus
Tools
MV/LV distribution, single-line diagrams, NEC, IEEE, liquid cooling
AI focus
TAR builds off-grid data center infrastructure to support AI, but the role does not involve AI work.
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