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BESS Lead Engineer, Power Generation

Austin, TXFull-time2026-10-13

Core

Lead electrical design, vendor qualification, and commissioning for multi-hundred-megawatt battery energy storage systems (BESS) to support gigawatt-scale AI compute infrastructure.

Role type

Senior IC power systems engineer (grid-scale BESS)

Builds

Grid-scale battery storage plants and hybrid generation sites for AI data centers

Domain

Energy infrastructure + Power systems engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Electrical design and sizing, BESS vendor qualification, NFPA 855 compliance, hazard mitigation analysis, commissioning, controls integration

Preferred skills

Hybrid plant dispatch modelling, power system studies, microgrid operation, interconnection processes, Professional Engineer license

Technologies

PLEXOS, PVsyst, HOMER, PSCAD, ETAP

Responsibilities

Own electrical design and sizing of multi-hundred-megawatt storage plants; Qualify and dual-source BESS vendors; Define storage and generation dispatch strategies; Drive NFPA 855 compliance and hazard mitigation; Lead commissioning and performance testing

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC