Director, Pipeline Engineering

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🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $170k - $290k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Nscale

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2024

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

💰 $433M Series C - Nscale on 2025-09

Consulting • Logistics • Manufacturing

Nscale is a full‑stack AI infrastructure company that provides GPU-powered cloud and on-premise capacity, sovereign and sustainable data centers, and managed platform services for large-scale model training, fine-tuning, and inference. It offers bare-metal and VM instances, managed Kubernetes and Slurm orchestration, high-throughput storage and low-latency networking, plus fleet operations, observability, and APIs for real-time GPU resource governance. Nscale serves enterprise AI teams and labs with modular, multi-megawatt data center deployments and turnkey AI-native services to accelerate R&D and production at scale.

📋 Description

• Own the design basis for Nscale's natural gas transmission pipelines, including hydraulic design, MAOP and pressure regime, line pack and inventory strategy, routing and sizing, and expansion provisions • Perform and direct steady-state and transient hydraulic modeling, maintaining models as living engineering assets • Demonstrate how pipeline design supports engine demand, turndown, campus availability, and pressure requirements • Evaluate gas storage and supply resilience options, including line pack utilization, interconnect diversity, and cross-connection strategies • Own overpressure protection philosophy, including regulation, monitor, slam-shut, and relief selection • Define control philosophy at interconnects, letdown stations, and plant interfaces, including measurement and SCADA provisions • Lead and support HAZOPs and design reviews, close actions, and manage change through design and construction • Engineer interfaces with plant fuel gas systems • Own compliance with 49 CFR Part 192 and applicable ASME B31 codes • Establish material, welding, construction, class location, and MAOP documentation standards • Develop integrity management foundations, including baseline assessment planning, pigging, inspection, and mainline valve philosophy • Support commissioning and first gas, including purge and pack planning and readiness reviews • Technically manage engineering consultants and pipeline construction contractors • Own technical interfaces with upstream pipeline operators and interconnect counterparties • Own third-party pipeline engineering scope, schedule, and budget • Develop Nscale engineering standards, specifications, and reference designs • Coordinate with generation engineering, permitting, land, commercial, EPC, upstream, and customer teams • Build and lead the internal pipeline engineering function • Communicate pipeline and process risks and readiness to project leadership and executives

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of natural gas pipeline engineering experience across design, construction, and operations • Significant experience in a lead or owner's engineer role on transmission systems • Deep hydraulic engineering capability, including transient modeling of gas transmission systems • Strong process engineering capability, including inventory-based system behavior, regulation and overpressure protection design, control philosophy development, and HAZOP • Working fluency with 49 CFR Part 192 and ASME B31.8, including MAOP determination, class location, and code interfaces with B31.1 or B31.3 • Hands-on experience with measurement and regulation stations, interconnects with major interstate pipelines, and nominations and transportation mechanics • Experience taking pipeline scopes through construction, hydrotest, and first gas on major projects • Proven ability to direct engineering consultants and construction contractors • Proven ability to build standards, processes, and teams, including hiring and developing engineers • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Chemical, or Civil Engineering or a related field • Willing and able to travel regularly to project sites, vendor facilities, and construction spreads, typically 25% or higher during construction and commissioning • PE license preferred • Industry standing such as code committee participation or technical society leadership is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Highly competitive US compensation package including bonus and equity eligibility • Performance reviews every 12 months • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage • 401(k) retirement plan with company match • Generous PTO plus US federal holidays • Flexible workplace with autonomy • Potential flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation

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