Staff Applications Engineer-Grid Integration

The role

You will act as the primary technical authority for grid integration and interconnection. You will validate electrical models, develop reference architectures, and interface with utilities and EPCs to ensure successful product deployment.

What you will do

• Act as primary technical authority on grid integration and interconnection
• Interface with Utilities, EPCs, and customer teams
• Validate PSCAD, PSSE, and other product electrical models
• Utilize electrical models to study and optimize reference architectures
• Develop and maintain technical packages including documentation and test results
• Guide customers and utilities in the usage of technical packages
• Analyze the utility sector and act as a strategic voice
• Partner with Policy lead to track policy changes and load flexibility requirements
• Support product team to catalog product requirements like grid codes and ride-through requirements
• Provide occasional on-site oversight of product deployment

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, or a related field
• Proficiency with PSCAD and PSSE (and/or comparable EMT/phasor-domain simulation tools)
• Experience with MW-scale power electronics, grid-tie inverters, or renewable/storage integration
• Experience with MV electrical infrastructure design
• Experience with grid interconnection processes for utility-scale generation or storage assets
• Experience with direct engagement with utilities and EPCs
• Familiarity with relevant interconnection standards and grid codes (e.g., IEEE 1547, NERC reliability standards, regional utility interconnection requirements, ride-through requirements)
• Experience tracking evolving grid policy, including large load and load flexibility rules
• Strong communication skills for senior technical liaison duties
• Ability to travel to customer/project sites as needed

Nice to have

• Advanced degree
• Experience working in a startup
• Experience validating power system models against field or test data
• Experience working cross-functionally with sales, product management, and product design/engineering teams

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Incentive Stock Options
• Medical, vision, and dental benefits for employees and dependents
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401k retirement savings plan through Empower
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Paid sick days
• Paid company holidays
• Commuter Benefits
• 100% paid maternal leave (12 weeks)
• Paternal leave (6 weeks)

About the company

Amperesand is building next-generation power infrastructure systems for Data Centers, EV charging platforms, and future energy applications. The company builds hardware and software to support modern energy needs using advanced medium voltage Solid State Transformer research.