BESS Lead Engineer, Power Generation

Role description

Role Overview

The BESS Lead Engineer, Power Generation will own the electrical design and sizing of multi-hundred-megawatt storage plants, qualify and dual-source BESS vendors, and define how storage, solar, and on-site generation dispatch together. The team is working on putting solar, storage, and gas in the ground at an install rate no one in the construction market has hit, securing supply at a scale and timeline the supply chain cannot meet, and making solar, gas, and storage combine into power steady enough to run AI workloads.

What You Will Do

The day-to-day responsibilities of the BESS Lead Engineer, Power Generation will include owning the electrical design and sizing of multi-hundred-megawatt storage plants, qualifying and dual-sourcing BESS vendors, defining how storage, solar, and on-site generation dispatch together, driving NFPA 855 compliance, and taking each plant through commissioning, capacity, and round-trip performance testing and controls integration.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have experience taking grid-scale battery storage from single line to energized plant, sizing a storage system against a real duty cycle, and choosing between BESS vendors on technical grounds. They will also have experience arguing NFPA 855 and hazard mitigation analysis in front of an AHJ or an insurer and getting to approval, and integrating storage controls with generation and load so the combined plant behaves as one machine rather than three.

Requirements

• Experience taking grid-scale battery storage from single line to energized plant
• Experience sizing a storage system against a real duty cycle
• Experience choosing between BESS vendors on technical grounds
• Experience arguing NFPA 855 and hazard mitigation analysis in front of an AHJ or an insurer
• Experience integrating storage controls with generation and load
• Professional Engineer license

Benefits

• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Pay equity and transparency