PCS Lead Engineer, Power Generation

Role description

Role Overview

As a PCS Lead Engineer, you will own the power conversion layer across storage and solar, PCS and inverter topology, DC architecture, filtering and the conversion interface to MV collection. You will lead conversion-side energization and commissioning in the field, root-cause converter trips, derates and firmware regressions across the fleet, and fold every fix back into the standard design.

What You Will Do

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include writing the PCS and inverter specification vendors bid against, qualifying platforms on measured behavior rather than datasheet, and holding OEM engineering to the spec through factory witness testing, site acceptance and warranty. You will also set the converter-level control requirements that let the plant hold firm load, grid-forming and grid-following operation, ride-through, step-load response and reactive capability.

Why It Might Be a Fit

We are looking for exceptional people who care deeply about the problem space of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI. You will be part of a team that is singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in power conversion from specification to energized and dispatching on grid-scale storage or solar
• Experience in writing an inverter or PCS specification that a vendor bid against, then held that vendor to it when their standard product did not meet it
• Debugging converter behavior in the field from scope traces, power quality captures and event records, and changing a setting or a firmware build as a result
• Specifying or validating grid-forming operation on a plant that has to survive islanded, and knowing where the vendor datasheet stops matching the hardware
• Carrying a failure from a field symptom to a change in the standard design, not just to a site-level workaround
• Writing clearly enough that an OEM engineer, a commissioning agent and a CEO each get the decision they need out of the same document
• Bonus: Grid-forming control and EMT validation (PSCAD, EMTP, PLECS), Converter design at the hardware level (magnetics, thermal, SiC and IGBT device selection), BESS and inverter certification (UL 1741 SA and SB, IEEE 1547, UL 9540A), Named PCS platforms (Power Electronics, SMA, EPC Power, Sungrow, Tesla), Behind-the-meter and islanded microgrid operation, Professional Engineer license

Benefits

• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid holidays
• Pay equity and transparency