BESS Lead Engineer, Power Generation

Austin, TX, Remote. Posted a month ago

The role

The BESS Lead Engineer will own storage plant design and lead electrical design and sizing for multi-hundred-megawatt storage plants. This person will qualify BESS vendors, define plant dispatch, drive fire safety approvals, and take plants through commissioning.

What you will do

Own the storage plant design.
Lead the electrical design and sizing of multi-hundred-megawatt storage plants.
Qualify and dual-source BESS vendors.
Run factory witness testing, failure mode review and warranty terms.
Define how the plant dispatches.
Specify how storage, solar and on-site generation dispatch together.
Drive NFPA 855 compliance, hazard mitigation analysis and large-scale fire test evidence through the AHJ and the insurer.
Take each plant through commissioning.
Complete capacity and round-trip performance testing and controls integration.

Required qualifications

10+ years of experience in grid-scale battery energy storage engineering, from plant design and sizing through vendor qualification, fire safety approval, and commissioning.
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 and sitting through factory witness testing.
Experience arguing NFPA 855 and hazard mitigation analysis in front of an AHJ or an insurer.
Experience integrating storage controls with generation and load.
Ability to write clearly for procurement leads, fire marshals and CEOs.
Comfortable with regular travel of 25% or more.

Nice to have

Hybrid plant and dispatch modelling.
Power system studies including EMT, protection coordination and arc flash.
Behind-the-meter and islanded microgrid operation.
Interconnection and market processes (FERC, ERCOT, MISO).
Professional Engineer licence.

About the company

Fluidstack acquires power, designs and builds data centers, and operates them to deliver compute infrastructure for AI. The company is focused on delivering gigawatts of compute through hardware and software teams.