Principal Implementation Engineer
On-siteHouston, Texas, United States or Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Job Summary
Lead end-to-end implementations for utility-scale solar, wind, and BESS customers by serving as the domain authority on platform usage and output interpretation. Conduct technical discovery workshops to translate operational requirements into platform configurations for KPIs, dashboards, and integrations. Review and validate implementation deliverables for technical accuracy, then drive UAT and production readiness through Technical Support handoffs. Mentor team members on renewable energy fundamentals and contribute to continuous improvement of implementation methodology and solution design templates. Surface industry requirements and field observations back to Product and Engineering based on direct customer engagement. Manage multiple concurrent complex engagements while communicating with credibility across technical and business stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience working inside the renewable energy industry, in asset management, performance engineering, O&M, or a comparable technical role at an IPP, asset owner, OEM analytics team, or renewable monitoring organization including several years of PV experience
- Hands-on operational experience with SCADA systems, electrical drawings/as built drawings, data historians, or APM platforms; able to interrogate time-series data, diagnose performance issues, and validate data quality in production environments
- Deep familiarity with renewable energy performance concepts: power curve analysis, performance ratio, availability calculations, energy yield variance, loss categorization, and O&M cost structures
- Strong working knowledge of SQL and data structures; able to independently interrogate datasets and validate platform outputs
- Technical aptitude for SaaS configuration, APIs, data mapping and transformation, and troubleshooting complex customer environments
- Demonstrated ability to translate operational requirements into software configuration decisions with ownership and precision
- Strong customer-facing communication skills, including the ability to engage performance engineers and asset managers at the peer level on the details that matter to them
- Organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple concurrent implementations across a global customer base
- Proficiency in English is required to support English‐speaking customers and to collaborate with teams located outside of Québec, as these activities represent a significant portion of the role's responsibilities
Desired Qualifications
- Direct experience with renewable energy APM (Asset Performance Management) platforms
- Domain depth in wind energy: meteorology, power performance, turbine reliability, or turbine operations in addition to PV
- Experience leading complex multi-stakeholder deployments involving large datasets, integrations, and operational change management
- Experience working in a cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Advanced degree in Engineering, Energy Systems, Data Science, or a related quantitative field
- Experience working in a workshop format and helping to translate data & requirements into actionable designs
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