Director, Electrical Engineering

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🕒 August 1

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

💵 $197.6k - $221.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔋 Electrical Engineer

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Stack Overflow

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2008

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

📚 Education

💰 Series E - Stack Overflow on 2020-12

SaaS • B2B • Education

Stack Overflow is a knowledge-sharing platform and company that provides a public Q&A community for developers alongside enterprise products that surface that verified technical knowledge inside organizations. Founded in 2008, the site hosts tens of millions of questions and answers and is used both by individual developers and more than 15,000 global companies. Stack Overflow’s offerings include Stack Internal (enterprise/team knowledge and integrations), Stack Data Licensing to power AI, Ads targeting developer audiences, APIs and other resources; the company emphasizes trusted, verifiable technical knowledge, security/compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR), and workflows that ground AI copilots in contextualized information.

📋 Description

• Lead technical strategy, specification development, procurement support, factory testing, integration, and deployment of OFCI electrical equipment across multiple concurrent data center projects • Serve as STACK’s subject matter expert for mission critical electrical infrastructure systems • Provide technical leadership throughout planning, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, energization, and operational turnover • Review, validate, and approve engineering deliverables from EORs, vendors, manufacturers, and consultants • Drive technical decision-making and issue resolution for fast-track hyperscale development schedules • Coordinate Development, Construction, Operations, Procurement, Commissioning, and external engineering partners • Evaluate and select OFCI electrical equipment vendors and manufacturers • Lead technical bid evaluations, submittal reviews, factory witness testing, equipment performance validation, and long-lead procurement strategy • Resolve RFIs, field issues, design clarifications, commissioning findings, and technical risks • Develop and improve Basis of Design standards, electrical design standards, procurement specifications, and technical governance processes • Drive improvements in speed-to-market, reliability, resiliency, constructability, scalability, maintainability, energy efficiency, and cost optimization • Provide oversight for electrical infrastructure integration and energization during construction and commissioning • Support operations with troubleshooting, root cause analysis, infrastructure upgrades, and reliability initiatives • Evaluate emerging electrical technologies for hyperscale and colocation environments • Lead and mentor internal engineering personnel • Support portfolio-wide capital planning and long-term electrical infrastructure strategy • Travel to project sites, vendor factories, and operational facilities as required

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering required • 15+ years of experience in mission critical facilities and large-scale data center electrical infrastructure design, procurement, construction, and commissioning • Extensive hands-on technical expertise with generators, UPS systems, medium-voltage distribution, switchgear, transformers, busway systems, protective relaying, and power monitoring systems • Experience delivering fast-paced hyperscale and/or colocation data center projects under aggressive schedules • Strong understanding of concurrently maintainable and fault-tolerant electrical system architectures • Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and rapidly resolve technical and field-related challenges with minimal oversight • Strong knowledge of NEC, NFPA, IEEE, NETA, and applicable mission critical industry standards and best practices • Experience leading OFCI equipment procurement, vendor management, factory witness testing, and technical evaluations • Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams, external consultants, OEMs, contractors, and commissioning agents • Strong understanding of constructability, commissioning, energization sequencing, and operational turnover requirements • Professional Engineer (PE) license preferred • Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Bluebeam, AutoCAD, and Adobe Acrobat • Preferred experience supporting hyperscale cloud, AI/ML, and high-density computing infrastructure environments • Must be eligible to work in the United States • Must pass comprehensive background screening

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401K program • Flexible spending accounts • Cell phone subsidy • Peer-to-peer recognition and rewards programs • Events, game nights, happy hours, and barbecues