Junior Electrical Engineer

Job Description

About the Opportunity

At Solaris, you'll help design, build, commission, and maintain the power generation and electrical infrastructure behind mission-critical data center power for hyperscale and AI infrastructure customers. As an Electrical Engineer, you'll work closely with our senior field and design engineers building your skills on ETAP modeling, developing single-line diagrams, and protection schemes, all while supporting factory acceptance testing (FAT) and commissioning at customer sites. We're looking for a recent graduate with a total ownership mentality. Someone who is eager to learn fast, take on the detailed technical work, and grow into a lead engineering role.

This role is based out of our office with periodic travel (approximately 25%) to support FATs, commissioning, and site visits alongside senior engineers.

Essential Functions

• Develop and revise drawings for medium voltage and low voltage that include one-line diagrams, three-line diagrams, control/relaying schematics, wiring diagrams, and general arrangement drawings, under supervision of senior engineers.
• Build and maintain ETAP models for microgrid and power delivery projects, running load flow, short-circuit, arc-flash, and coordination studies under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Manage engineering contractors to support overall detailed design project efforts
• Specify and review major electrical equipment items and participate in the technical procurement process
• Support factory acceptance testing (FAT) of purchased and manufactured equipment, including E-houses, switchgear, and gas turbine packages from OEMs such as Solar Turbines, GE, and Pratt & Whitney.
• Travel to customer sites (approximately 25% of the time) to support commissioning activities and gain hands-on exposure to microgrid systems in the field.
• Work alongside senior engineers to build a foundational understanding of protective relay settings and schemes for medium-voltage equipment, including relays from SEL, GE, Siemens, and Beckwith.
• Assist with power budgets, monitoring, and metering documentation for mission-critical assets.
• Participate in design meetings and reviews for new microgrid and power delivery projects, supporting vendor qualification and quality checks on purchased equipment.
• Maintain organized design and asset documentation across all project sites.
• Champion a safety-first, quality-first mindset in all work, and learn to apply NFPA 70, 70B, 70E, NESC, and IEEE standards.
• Receive structured mentorship from senior engineers, with increasing ownership of design tasks, FAT support, and field commissioning responsibilities over time.

Qualifications

Experience/Education

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, or another engineering discipline (recently completed or completing soon); equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• 0-1 years of experience in power systems design, analysis, testing, and/or field service; internship or co-op experience in power systems, electrical design, or field engineering is a plus.
• Willingness and ability to travel periodically (approximately 25%) to customer sites across the continental U.S.
• Must reside in the continental U.S.

Preferred Skills and Experiences

• Coursework or project experience with power systems analysis software (ETAP, SKM, EasyPower, PSCAD, PSS/E, etc.).
• Exposure to industrial power systems equipment that includes generators, switchgear, transformers, BESS, VFDs, motors, UPS/emergency backups, and protective devices.
• Interest in pursuing a Professional Engineering (PE) license.
• Naturally curious self-starter with a total ownership mentality. Must be eager to learn unfamiliar systems, take initiative, and ask questions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the professionalism to represent the company well when on-site.
• Ability to work well under mentorship, take direction, and progressively take on more independent responsibility.

Additional Information

Key Skills and Qualifications

• Exceptional communicator – direct and transparent, skilled problem-solver with proven success in building coalitions and avoiding conflicts
• Total ownership mentality – proactively identifies and removes obstacles across numerous ongoing tasks
• Independent thinker – provides original thoughts and constantly asking "how can we do this better"
• Innovative thinker – willingness to consider novel solutions and ability to adapt to change
• Desirable teammate – impeccable character, humility, and collaborative
• Relentless – aspires to contribute and achieve his/her full potential

Our CREATORS Culture
At Solaris, we believe that staying true to our core beliefs improves our decision-making, productivity and is key to our individual and collective achievements. Combining your innovative thinking with our core values that encourage Communication, Recognition, Entrepreneurship, Accountability, Teamwork & Transparency, Ownership, Results and Safety, we become CREATORS.

We value your hard work, integrity, and commitment to the Solaris “First in Service & Innovation” culture through competitive pay and benefits packages and ongoing career development.

• Competitive compensation packages
• Medical, Dental & Vision benefits
• Disability Insurance
• Company paid Life and AD&D insurance with supplemental offerings
• Company matching 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid time off, including 10 paid holidays
• Career Progression
• Tuition Reimbursement

This job overview is not all inclusive. In addition, Solaris reserves the right to amend this job overview at any time. Solaris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Why Solaris Join a company at the forefront of the energy infrastructure buildout powering data centers and industrial growth. We offer competitive compensation, benefits, and opportunities to grow alongside a high-performing team.

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