Senior/Staff Power Systems Engineer, Grid Interconnection

The role

You will own the grid interconnection of grid-forming inverters and solid-state transformers across utility-scale projects. This involves model development, interconnection studies, utility approval, and field commissioning.

What you will do

• Own inverter and plant models across RMS and EMT platforms
• Benchmark models against each other and controller hardware-in-the-loop
• Produce model validation reports, parameter sheets, and user guides
• Support interconnection studies for PV, BESS, hybrid, and large-load projects
• Guide developers through the interconnection process
• Prepare model submittals and respond to study comments
• Work through material modification and restudy reviews with transmission providers
• Define plant controller settings and coordination
• Write and run commissioning and model validation test plans
• Analyze field data and disturbance recordings

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of power systems engineering focused on inverter-based resource (IBR) interconnection at an inverter OEM, developer, utility, ISO/RTO, or consulting firm
• Track record of taking IBR projects from model development through interconnection approval and into commissioning
• Hands-on proficiency in PSCAD and at least two of PSS/E, PSLF, PowerFactory, and TSAT
• Working knowledge of IEEE 2800, NERC PRC and MOD standards, and FERC and ISO/RTO interconnection processes
• Strong grasp of inverter control fundamentals: grid-following and grid-forming control, current limiting, PLL dynamics, and weak-grid and small-signal stability

Nice to have

• Experience with grid-forming inverter models and requirements, such as virtual synchronous machine (VSM) or droop-based controls
• Real-code EMT model development, such as wrapping C or Fortran controller code as a PSCAD DLL using the IEEE/CIGRE DLL interface
• Experience with utility-scale BESS or PV plants, including PPC tuning and grid-code compliance testing

Benefits

• Competitive compensation (salary and equity)
• Benefits

About the company

Heron Power is a startup company building cutting-edge power electronics for the 21st-century grid. They aim to build better converters to connect large-scale renewables, storage, and loads to the grid.