Protection and Controls Engineer
Hut 8 is an energy infrastructure platform that develops and operates power, digital infrastructure, and compute assets. Its platform supports energy-intensive technologies, including AI and Bitcoin mining.
Funding history
About Hut 8
Hut 8 develops, commercializes, and operates integrated power, digital infrastructure, and compute assets. It acquires and manages critical energy assets such as powered land, interconnects, substations, switchyards, and related electrical systems; designs and operates purpose-built facilities for energy-intensive applications; and deploys specialized hardware through businesses serving markets such as AI and Bitcoin mining. Its clients and counterparties include users of large-scale, energy-intensive technology infrastructure.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop protection schemes, relay settings, panel arrangements, control designs, schematics, wiring diagrams, and logic diagrams for high-voltage substations and interconnections. You will perform coordination and fault studies, coordinate with utilities, support factory and site testing, troubleshoot field issues, maintain compliance documentation, and build program standards.
Requirements
- 5+ years of protection and controls engineering for high-voltage substations, transmission, or utility interconnections at 69kV-345kV.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.
- PE license is preferred.
- Hands-on protective relaying experience, especially with SEL platforms.
- Experience with scheme design, settings development, and event analysis.
- Coordination and fault study experience with ASPEN or CAPE.
- Knowledge of NERC PRC standards and utility interconnection protection processes.
- Commissioning experience with relay functional testing and end-to-end tests.
- Experience working with NETA field crews.
- SCADA, RTU, and communications-assisted protection familiarity is a plus.
- Willingness to travel 20-35% for factory tests, energizations, and utility meetings.
Responsibilities
- Develop and review high-voltage protection schemes, relay panels, and control designs.
- Produce and review AC/DC schematics, wiring diagrams, and logic diagrams.
- Specify protective relays, RTUs, meters, and panel equipment.
- Develop, review, version, and reconcile relay settings files and setting philosophies.
- Perform and validate protection coordination, fault, and arc-flash studies.
- Support interconnection protection packages, SCADA or RTU point lists, and utility reviews.
- Drive utility comments to resolution through energization.
- Maintain NERC PRC-related compliance documentation where applicable.
- Support factory acceptance, site acceptance, relay functional, and end-to-end testing.
- Provide field troubleshooting support during construction and energization.
- Build protection and controls standards, templates, panel typicals, settings libraries, and testing requirements.
- Review vendor drawings and mentor the HV or MV Project Engineer.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Paid time off