Description
Job Overview
As a Data Center Substation, Protection & Automation Engineer at Anthropic, you will own the protection and automation architecture across Anthropic's US portfolio. This involves developing and maintaining the protection philosophy and reference relay settings, running and reviewing short-circuit, coordination, and arc-flash studies, designing the substation automation and SCADA architecture, and defining how relays and meters integrate into the electrical power monitoring system (EPMS).
Responsibilities
Protection Engineering
- Own Anthropic's protection philosophy and basis of design across the electrical system
- Specify protective relays and develop relay settings for various protection applications
- Perform and critically review short-circuit, protective-device coordination, and arc-flash studies
- Implement automatic transfer, load-shed, and restoration schemes in protection and automation logic
- Review protection and control design packages, relay settings calculations, and coordination studies from build partners and A/E firms
Substation Automation & SCADA
- Design the substation automation architecture for each site
- Integrate protective relays, meters, and switchgear controls into the EPMS and substation SCADA
- Define electrical points lists and event/waveform capture
- Evaluate and qualify relay, RTU, gateway, and EPMS platforms on technical merit
Substation Design & Utility Interface
- Review HV/MV substation design packages from build partners
- Work with local utilities, transmission owners, and ISOs/RTOs on interconnection protection requirements
- Review the protection and control interface for on-site generation and battery energy storage interconnections
- Support NERC PRC compliance for applicable facilities
Testing, Commissioning & Standards
- Develop relay test plans and factory and site acceptance test procedures
- Witness FAT, relay secondary-injection testing, GOOSE messaging and end-to-end scheme testing, and integrated systems testing
- Review the protection and control steps of energization and switching methods of procedure (MOPs)
- Lead root-cause analysis of protection operations and misoperations
- Build and continuously improve Anthropic's internal protection and automation standards
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in power system protection engineering, substation automation, or substation design
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field
- Deep, hands-on expertise applying and setting protective relays
- Fluency in short-circuit, protective-device coordination, and arc-flash analysis
- Hands-on experience integrating protective relays into substation automation or SCADA systems
- Experience working on utility interconnection protection
Nice to Have
- HV/MV substation physical design experience
- Experience with protection and control for on-site generation and battery energy storage systems
- Background in data center, hyperscaler, or other high-availability electrical distribution
- Experience owning NERC PRC compliance evidence
- Proficiency with vendor relay engineering tools
- Designed IEC 61850 station- or process-bus systems
Logistics
- Annual Salary: $320,000-$405,000 USD