Data Center Substation Protection & Automation Engineer
AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, including the Claude product family and developer platform.
Funding history
About Anthropic
Anthropic PBC develops frontier AI systems and deploys them through Claude products and the Claude Platform, with a stated focus on safety, interpretability, and steerability.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own protection and automation architecture across high- and medium-voltage substations, distribution systems, generation interties, and low-voltage switchgear. You will develop relay settings, perform studies, design SCADA and EPMS integrations, work with utilities, review designs, lead testing and commissioning, and improve protection standards.
Requirements
- 10+ years of power system protection engineering, substation automation, or substation design experience.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Expertise applying and setting protective relays.
- Experience with short-circuit, coordination, and arc-flash analysis.
- Experience integrating protective relays with SCADA or substation automation using DNP3, Modbus, or IEC 61850.
- Experience with utility interconnection protection requirements.
- Ability to interpret electrical diagrams, schematics, relay panels, and wiring diagrams.
- Experience developing relay test plans and witnessing testing or commissioning.
- Knowledge of IEEE C37, IEEE 1584, NFPA 70/70E, and NERC PRC standards.
Responsibilities
- Own protection philosophy, basis of design, relay settings, and protection one-line templates.
- Specify protective relays and develop settings for transformer, feeder, bus, generator, motor, and arc-flash applications.
- Perform and review short-circuit, coordination, and arc-flash studies.
- Implement transfer, load-shed, and restoration schemes.
- Review protection and control design packages and drive closure on deviations.
- Design substation automation architecture, including IEC 61850, GOOSE, RTUs, HMI, event recording, and time synchronization.
- Integrate relays, meters, and switchgear controls into EPMS and SCADA.
- Define network topology, redundancy, and cybersecurity boundaries for automation systems.
- Work with utilities and grid operators on interconnection protection requirements.
- Develop relay test plans and witness factory and site acceptance testing.
- Support substation energization and resolve field protection issues.
- Lead root-cause analysis of protection operations and misoperations.
- Improve protection settings templates, test procedures, and commissioning checklists.
Benefits
- Visa sponsorship
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation
- Parental leave
- Flexible working hours