Principal Power Electronics Engineer
On-siteHouston, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Architect the grid-connected inverter product strategy, defining converter-controls approaches for grid-following and grid-forming operations while setting engineering standards and design review gates. Serve as the final technical authority on inverter change baselines and root-cause analysis for current-limit, post-fault recovery, and control instability, driving corrective design changes across concurrent product cycles. Own strategic vendor relationships and technical qualification processes, managing OEMs through design, FAT, and serial production while resolving high-stakes escalations. Support business development with technical proposals and SLDs, maintaining documentation and as-built drawings for MW-scale systems. Lead the team's technical capability through mentorship and direct engagement with certifying bodies and customers.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, or a closely related technical field
- MS preferred
- 10+ years of hands-on power-electronics engineering
- demonstrated record of operating with minimal direction in a senior technical role
- Architecture-level decision authority on previous grid-connected-inverter, power-electronics, or BESS equipment
- Proven system-level design of MW-scale power-electronics equipment
- deep converter-controls depth (grid-following / grid-forming, current limiting, protection)
- Fluency producing and reviewing SLDs, GAs, schematics, and panel layouts
- expert with AutoCAD or equivalent E-CAD
- Standards authority: UL 1741, IEEE 1547, IEEE 2800, IEC 62040-3, NFPA 855 / UL 9540 context
- modeling with EMT tools (PSCAD, MATLAB / Simulink, PLECS)
- Strong track record running strategic vendor / OEM relationships through design, FAT, serial production, and post-deployment escalation
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- specs, technical positions, design-review leadership, and board-level briefings
- Willing to travel up to 25–30% for FAT inspections, site commissioning, customer engagements, and vendor reviews
Desired Qualifications
- Direct experience with data center / UPS / mission-critical power or utility-scale BESS at the architecture level
- Grid-forming inverters, advanced power-semiconductor (e.g., SiC) designs, and weak-grid / low-SCR EMT and impedance-stability validation
- History of leading products through NRTL certification (UL, CSA, Intertek) and FAT / commissioning
- Active Professional Engineer (PE) license
- involvement in standards bodies (IEEE, UL, IEC, NFPA)
- patents or peer-reviewed publications
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