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<div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>About Nscale</b></h2>
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Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development.</p>
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Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.</p>
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We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you'll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you'll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.</p>
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<h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>About the Role (Job Purpose)</b></h2>
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We're looking for a <b>Foundry Engineering Lead</b> to serve as the technical authority for our Foundry implementation at Nscale&mdash;leading the design, development, and governance of the data platform that underpins our internal operations, workflows, and customer-facing capabilities.</p>
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This is a senior, high-impact role at the intersection of hands-on engineering and technical leadership. You'll set the architectural direction for Foundry, build and maintain the core data infrastructure, and work closely with Operations, Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Product, and Commercial teams to deliver reliable, scalable data products.</p>
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As the most experienced Foundry engineer in the team, you'll mentor and guide other engineers and analysts, establish standards and best practices, and drive the technical roadmap as the platform scales.</p>
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This role is ideal for someone who combines deep, hands-on Foundry expertise with the confidence to lead technically&mdash;someone who can architect at scale, get into the details when it matters, and bring others along with them.</p>
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<h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>What You'll be Doing (Responsibilities)</b></h2>
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<li><p>Lead the design and architecture of Nscale's Foundry implementation, ensuring scalability, security, and long-term data integrity.</p>
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<li><p>Define the technical strategy for Foundry development, aligning with business objectives and the programme-wide data roadmap.</p>
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<li><p>Act as the technical authority on Foundry across the organisation&mdash;setting standards, driving architectural decisions, and owning the evolution of the platform.</p>
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<li><p>Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to best practices in data modelling, pipeline development, and integration.</p>
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<li><p>Mentor engineers and analysts working within the Foundry environment, raising technical capability and quality across the team.</p>
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<li><p>Design and build scalable, reliable data pipelines that ingest data from infrastructure, platform services, and business systems.</p>
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<li><p>Define data models, schemas, and ontology structures that support operational workflows and use cases across the business.</p>
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<li><p>Clean, transform, and structure data to create a digital twin of Nscale.</p>
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<li><p>Implement permissioning and manage access and security of the Foundry implementation.</p>
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<li><p>Create trusted datasets and metrics that power workflows, internal tools, and customer-facing insights.</p>
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<li><p>Enable self-service analytics by establishing clear data contracts, documentation, and semantic layers.</p>
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<li><p>Build use cases including, but not limited to:</p>
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<li><p>Capacity planning</p>
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<li><p>Cost optimisation</p>
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<li><p>Reliability analysis</p>
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<li><p>Customer reporting</p>
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</ul></li><li><p>Collaborate with Product and Commercial teams to translate real-world business questions into robust data solutions.</p>
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<li><p>Implement data quality checks, monitoring, and alerting to ensure data correctness and availability.</p>
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<li><p>Codify data lineage, freshness, and consistency across systems.</p>
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<li><p>Establish and enforce governance standards around data versioning, access control, and compliance appropriate for a fast-scaling company.</p>
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<li><p>Oversee the integration of Foundry with existing systems and data sources, ensuring seamless data flows.</p>
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</ul><p></p><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Profile and Required Skills</b></h2>
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<li><p><b>Deep, hands-on expertise in Palantir Foundry</b>, including ontology modelling, pipeline development, data architecture, and large-scale platform design.</p>
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<li><p>Proven experience providing technical leadership&mdash;setting architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and defining standards in a data engineering context.</p>
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<li><p>Strong proficiency in Python, with experience applying data engineering frameworks (e.g. Spark, PySpark, Dask, pandas) to large, complex datasets.</p>
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<li><p>Familiarity with API-driven data integration, including REST, GraphQL, and Foundry Action APIs.</p>
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<li><p>Experience with Git-based development workflows, including code reviews, version control, and CI/CD pipelines.</p>
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<li><p>Excellent communication skills&mdash;able to explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.</p>
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<li><p>Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where requirements evolve quickly.</p>
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<li><p>A bias toward ownership, pragmatism, and delivering useful solutions.</p>
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</ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Nice to Have</b></h3>
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<li><p>Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure telemetry.</p>
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<li><p>Familiarity with distributed systems, monitoring data, or usage-based billing data.</p>
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<li><p>Experience supporting customer-facing data products or platforms.</p>
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</ul><p></p><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>What We Can Offer You</b></h2>
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At Nscale, you'll find a collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment where your contributions spark real impact. We're building something extraordinary, and we want you at the core.</p>
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<li><p>Highly competitive package (base + equity) with reviews every 12 months.</p>
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<li><p>Join the fastest-growing tech startup, your chance to push boundaries, collaborate with brilliant minds, and make your mark on cutting-edge AI. ✨</p>
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<li><p>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.</p>
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<li><p>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.</p>
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</ul><p></p><h1 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Equal Opportunities Statement</b></h1>
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We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.</p>
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If there's anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.</p>
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The responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to provide a general overview of the position. The employee may be required to perform additional duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management, consistent with the skills and qualifications required for the role.</p><div><p><i>
For information on how Nscale handles candidate personal data, please see our Employee &amp; Candidate Privacy Notice: </i><i>Here.</i></p></div></div>

Foundry Engineering Lead

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<div><div><div><p><b>About Nscale</b></p></div></div><div><br>
<div>
<p>Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.</p>
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At Nscale, our Design and Construction team plays a critical role in delivering data center facilities that are optimized for AI deployments.</p>
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We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you'll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you'll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future</p></div></div></div></div><br>
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</p><p></p><div><div><div><div><p><b>About the Role</b></p></div></div><div><br>
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<ul><li>We are looking for an Engineer / Senior Engineer, Program Manager for the Utility Engineering team to support utility strategy and execution for our North America data center portfolio, with a focus on datacenter workloads.</li></ul>
<ul><li>You will support end‑to‑end responsibility for securing, designing, and optimizing critical to support hyperscale, energy‑intensive AI compute at low cost and high reliability.</li></ul>
<ul><li>You will serve as a key technical contributor for utility interfaces to our data centers with a focus on power, while coordinating with external partners to deliver projects on schedule.</li></ul>
<ul><li>You will support technical scope development for behind-the-meter, islanded, and grid connected load strategies, including contributing to design oversight, constructability reviews, operability assessments, and commissioning readiness.</li></ul>
<ul><li>You will partner closely with development, design, operations, and finance teams to deliver utility solutions that meet aggressive capacity, sustainability, and cost objectives across multiple energy markets.</li></ul>
<ul><li>The position title and level will be commensurate with experience and qualifications.</li></ul></div></div></div></div><br>
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</p><p></p><div><div><div><div><p><b>What You'll be Doing (Responsibilities)</b></p></div></div><div><br>
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<p><b>Utility Strategy and Planning</b></p>
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<li>Support the development of long‑term utility strategy to support high‑density AI / GPU data centers across existing and new regions.</li>
<li>Evaluate and select sites based on grid capacity, reliability, renewable/low‑carbon options, interconnection queues, and regulatory constraints.</li>
<li>Develop financial models and analytics documents to support energy sourcing for datacenters.</li>
<li>Lead negotiations related energy supply agreements and utility contracts</li>
<li>Monitor energy regulations and policies that have the potential to affect the projects constructability, capacity, and cost.</li>
<li>Develop and manage scope of works (SOW) and related agreements to support the ancillary workstreams</li>
<li>Build and maintain load forecasts based on AI / GPU growth scenarios and translate them into concrete utility capacity plans.</li>
<li>Support the development of power supply strategies that include both grid supply and on-site/behind-the-meter generation, helping evaluate trade-offs across reliability, schedule, fuel availability, emissions, and total cost of ownership.</li>
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<p><b>Grid and Utility Engagement</b></p>
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<li>Support technical and commercial engagements with utilities, ISOs/RTOs, transmission owners, and large energy providers from early‑stage site diligence through energization.</li>
<li>Review and manage interconnection agreements, service agreements, and tariffs in partnership with legal, regulatory, and energy procurement teams.</li>
<li>Track grid upgrade timelines and constraints that impact data center development schedules and escalate risks to senior team members.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Power Generation Strategy, Design, and Delivery</b></p>
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<li>Contribute to the technical strategy for on-site power generation used to support data center capacity, schedule acceleration, and resilience.</li>
<li>Support generation plant concept development through design completion, contributing to architecture decisions and design basis for:</li>
<li><ul><li>Generation technology selection (e.g., reciprocating engines, turbines, dual-fuel strategies where applicable)</li>
<li>Electrical topology and one-lines (medium voltage distribution, paralleling, synchronization, islanding, black start concepts as applicable)</li>
<li>Protection and controls philosophy (relaying, coordination, fault duty, grounding, synchronization, load sharing)</li>
<li>Integration with UPS/BESS/microgrid controllers and operational modes (grid-parallel, island, peak shaving, backup)</li>
</ul></li><li>Support generation interconnection and utility coordination for behind-the-meter and/or utility-parallel operation, including studies, compliance, and operational requirements.</li>
<li>Assist with equipment specification and procurement alignment for generator sets, switchgear, transformers, e-houses, controls systems, and balance-of-plant, with attention to long-lead risk and schedule certainty.</li>
<li>Support commissioning planning and field execution for generation systems, including performance verification, reliability demonstration, and handoff to operations.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Cross Functional Support</b></p>
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<li>Provide engineering leadership on integration of alternative or on‑site energy sources (renewables, storage, generators, microgrids, etc.) to improve resilience and cost.</li>
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<p><b>Project Execution and Delivery</b></p>
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<li>Serve as the energy owner for a set of data center development projects from due diligence through energization.</li>
<li>Work closely with development, construction, and operations to align utility milestones with project schedules and capacity needs.</li>
<li>Visit sites as needed to support commissioning, troubleshooting, and design clarifications in the field.</li>
<li>Identify risks early (grid constraints, upgrade requirements, permitting, schedule slippage) and implement pragmatic mitigations.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Reliability, Performance, and Optimization</b></p>
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<li>Ensure that utility designs meet or exceed reliability targets suitable for AI / GPU workloads with high power density and utilization.</li>
<li>Partner with operations, reliability, and capacity planning to monitor actual performance versus design assumptions and close gaps.</li>
<li>Continuously refine designs and standards to reduce losses, improve PUE / energy efficiency, and lower total cost of ownership.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Leadership and Cross‑Functional Collaboration</b></p>
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<li>Collaborate with internal and external partners, coordinating effectively and delivering against project timelines.</li>
<li>Develop expertise in utility and grid topics, supporting internal stakeholders with clear technical communication on utility considerations and tradeoffs.</li>
<li>Communicate clearly with non‑technical stakeholders about utility risks, trade‑offs, and options.</li>
<li>Contribute to overall infrastructure strategy, including how power availability, cost, and carbon intensity influence data center and AI capacity roadmaps.</li></ul></div><br>
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</div></div><p></p><div><div><div><div><p><b>About You (Skills / Qualifications)</b></p></div></div></div><br>
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<div><div><p><b>Required</b></p>
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<li>Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Finance, Economics, Business or related field.</li>
<li>2&ndash;5 years of experience in power markets, utility finance, utility engineering, power systems, large energy projects, PPAs, with exposure to data centers, industrial loads, or hyperscale cloud environments.</li>
<li>Foundational understanding of transmission and distribution systems, interconnection processes, protection and controls, and utility planning.</li>
<li>Some exposure to or experience working with electric utilities, ISOs/RTOs, or transmission owners on interconnection processes and high‑capacity interconnections.</li>
<li>Experience supporting or contributing to multi‑stakeholder utility projects from concept through energization.</li>
<li>Strong ability to interpret utility tariffs, produce rate calculations and analyze overall power costs.</li>
<li>Excellent communication skills, able to translate technical utility issues into clear business trade‑offs and recommendations for non‑engineers.</li>
<li>Some exposure to or coursework/project experience related to power generation and/or generation plant electrical design, such as:</li>
<li><ul><li>Overseeing the design of generation plant one-lines, MV distribution, synchronization/paralleling, protection and controls</li>
<li>Managing generator plant concept-to-commissioning delivery (including equipment specification and long-lead procurement)</li>
<li>Integrating generation with critical power architectures (UPS/BESS, islanding strategies, microgrid controls)</li>
</ul></li>
</ul><p><b>Preferred</b></p>
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<li>Master's degree in Energy Policy, Finance, Energy Systems, Business Administration or similar.</li>
<li>Experience with high‑density AI / GPU or HPC data centers, including unique power profiles and redundancy requirements.</li>
<li>Familiarity with renewable energy integration, energy storage, microgrids, and low‑carbon or sovereign energy strategies.</li>
<li>Experience working in fast‑paced growth environments or startups, where speed and execution are paramount.</li>
<li>International experience dealing with utilities, regulators, and grid operators in multiple jurisdictions.</li>
<li>Experience with generator OEMs, EPCs, and commissioning providers for large-scale standby/prime power plants supporting mission-critical facilities</li>
<li>Exposure to electricity market analysis and power economics, including power cost analysis, levelized cost of energy (LCOE) modeling, tariff structures, and capacity/energy market dynamics as they relate to data center power procurement and site selection.</li></ul></div></div></div><br>
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<p></p><div><div><div><div><p><b>Equal Opportunities Statement</b></p></div></div><div><br>
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<p>At NScale, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace. We believe that a variety of perspectives enriches our work environment, and we encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities. We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.</p>
<p>
If there's anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.</p></div></div><br>
</div>
</div><p></p><p><i>The responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to provide a general overview of the position. The employee may be required to perform additional duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management, consistent with the skills and qualifications required for the role.</i></p><div><p><i>
For information on how Nscale handles candidate personal data, please see our Employee &amp; Candidate Privacy Notice: </i><i>Here.</i></p></div></div>

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