[Hiring] Principal Engineer @Nscale

Role Description

We're looking for a field-focused technical leader to own low-voltage execution across Nscale's AI and GPU data center deployments. This role sits at the intersection of deployment engineering, field project management, vendor leadership, and cross-functional delivery. The Principal Low Voltage Deployment Engineer translates design intent into safe, high-quality field execution and drives low-voltage infrastructure from readiness through acceptance and turnover.

You'll thrive in this role if you are:

• A field leader. You are comfortable owning execution where the work is happening.
• A technical problem solver. You can move between drawings, fiber testing, vendor execution, and project constraints.
• An owner. You identify gaps early and drive them through resolution.
• A cross-functional operator. You build alignment across teams without relying on direct authority.
• A builder. You enjoy creating repeatable standards and improving how future deployments are delivered.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in low-voltage, structured cabling, network infrastructure, data center construction, deployment engineering, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex field deployments and managing third-party vendors or contractors.
• Strong working knowledge of fiber-optic and copper infrastructure, installation practices, testing, and quality requirements.
• Ability to interpret LLDs, construction drawings, rack elevations, cable schedules, port maps, and technical deployment documentation.
• Experience managing project schedules, risks, dependencies, punch lists, and cross-functional execution.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage field teams, engineers, project leaders, vendors, and senior stakeholders.
• Ability to travel 50% or more, with significant onsite presence during active deployment phases based on project needs.

Requirements

• Own low-voltage deployment execution from site readiness through installation, testing, acceptance, and turnover.
• Oversee fiber, copper, structured cabling, pathways, containment, patching, labeling, and associated infrastructure supporting high-density AI environments.
• Use approved designs, LLDs, cable schedules, rack elevations, and Nscale standards to verify onsite implementation.
• Maintain visibility into field blockers, dependencies, and readiness gaps, and drive them to resolution.
• Serve as a primary Nscale technical and field interface for low-voltage contractors, integrators, and deployment partners.
• Drive vendor performance across staffing, schedule, quality, productivity, testing, remediation, and deliverables.
• Lead onsite coordination and hold partners accountable to approved scope, milestones, and quality expectations.
• Build trusted working relationships with vendors, construction teams, network teams, and project stakeholders.
• Bring credible technical judgment to design, constructability, readiness, and deployment reviews.
• Lead QA/QC activities covering routing, labeling, polarity, fiber cleanliness, bend radius, cable management, termination, patching, and workmanship.
• Review fiber and copper test results and certification documentation, including OLTS and OTDR where required.
• Drive punch-list remediation, final acceptance, and lessons learned while identifying recurring issues and preventative solutions.
• Manage schedules, milestones, risks, dependencies, and multiple concurrent low-voltage workstreams.
• Partner closely with Network Infrastructure, Construction, AI Infrastructure Deployment, Engineering, Commissioning, Operations, Supply Chain, and other teams.
• Translate field and technical complexity into concise status, risk, decision, and escalation updates.
• Help develop repeatable deployment methods, standards, SOWs, vendor requirements, and operating practices as the Low Voltage Deployment organization scales.

Benefits

• Highly competitive package, including base salary and equity, with reviews every 12 months.
• Join one of the fastest-growing tech startups: your chance to push boundaries, collaborate with brilliant minds, and make your mark on cutting-edge AI.
• Expect a dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions. Grow by trying new things, leading, challenging the status quo, and owning your impact, always with our full support.
• Human-first flexibility. We treat you as humans first. Our flexible workplace trusts Nscalers to deliver, giving you the autonomy to shape your day around life's moments.
• Join our thriving remote-first team. Geography is no barrier to impact or connection. We build seamless virtual collaboration, empowering you wherever you work.

Equal Opportunities Statement

At Nscale, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace. We believe that a variety of perspectives enrich our work environment, and we encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities. We strongly encourage applications from people of color, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

If there's anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.

Salary Range

$130,000 — $200,000 USD