Principal Power & Energy Infrastructure Lead

Costa Mesa · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00) · USD 220,000-292,000 · 10+ years experience · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Sep 30, 2026

At a glance

Anduril Industries is hiring a single, deeply technical owner for power across the portfolio to oversee power infrastructure from pre-construction design through operations.
This is a senior individual contributor role sitting at the intersection of pre-construction design, facilities operations, and utility relations.
The person in this role will influence design decisions, capital plans, and utility negotiations across every site built by Anduril.

Own the power narrative for every new site and expansion from site selection diligence through design development, permit set, and commissioning.
Build load models grounded in actual equipment lists, duty cycles, and diversity factors rather than nameplate sums.
Set the grid interconnection strategy including service voltage, configuration, metering, transformer and switchgear sizing, and staging plans.
Define backup and resiliency architecture including generators, UPS, battery storage, paralleling and transfer schemes, and N+1 decisions.
Evaluate on-site generation and microgrid options where they shorten schedule, lower cost, or de-risk utility dependence.
Review electrical design packages from AE partners to identify sizing, selective coordination, and maintainability problems.
Partner with Facilities to translate each new system into a preventive maintenance program loaded into the CMMS before turnover.
Own the reliability standard for electrical infrastructure across sites including infrared scanning, breaker/relay testing, and ATS exercise regimes.
Serve as the primary relationship owner with investor-owned utilities, municipal utilities, and cooperatives across the U.S. portfolio.
Negotiate line extension agreements, service contracts, rate schedules, and cost allocations with utilities.

10+ years of experience in electrical power systems in utility, industrial, data center, manufacturing, or mission-critical facilities with direct ownership of medium-voltage distribution and backup power.
Demonstrated experience taking projects from load study through utility interconnection to energization, including at least one project at multi-megawatt scale.
Working fluency with NEC, NFPA 70E, NFPA 110, and IEEE standards, and with arc flash, short circuit, and coordination studies.
Track record negotiating directly with utilities on service, tariffs, line extensions, and schedule.
Ability to build and defend a load model including equipment lists, duty cycles, diversity, growth allowance, and underlying assumptions.
Experience partnering with facilities or operations teams on preventive maintenance programs, CMMS implementation, and reliability standards for electrical assets.
Comfort operating as the sole owner of a domain, setting standards, and driving alignment across design, construction, and operations.
Willingness to travel to sites across the U.S. as projects require.
U.S. Person status as defined by ITAR (22 CFR §120.62).

Professional Engineer (PE) license in electrical engineering, or equivalent depth without the license.
Prior experience inside a utility in distribution planning, key accounts, or service engineering.
Experience with on-site generation, battery energy storage, or microgrid design and controls.
Familiarity with high-growth manufacturing environments where power demand changes rapidly.
Experience with SCADA, power monitoring platforms, or building management system integration.
Exposure to secure or classified facility requirements.

Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers
Top-tier benefits for full-time employees supported in health, recovery, and other areas

Travel of approximately 25-40% to active project sites and utility meetings is expected.

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