Senior Engineer, Power Systems

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $145k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔋 Electrical Engineer

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Sparkfund is an energy transition partner that specializes in program management, project implementation, and financing services for utilities and building owners. The company focuses on transforming the built environment to enhance the electric grid's capacity and create a more sustainable energy future. With a strong commitment to helping utilities and commercial building owners navigate the energy transition, Sparkfund provides tailored solutions that lower costs, improve resilience, and integrate new technologies. The company leverages its expertise and extensive network to deliver scalable and efficient energy projects, backed by significant financial resources.

📋 Description

• Serve as the primary day-to-day engineering contact for utility distribution planning, protection, and interconnection teams • Lead technical discussions with utility partners and advance interconnection reviews toward approval • Prepare and present recommendations on IEEE 1547-2018 compliance, protection coordination, effective grounding, and utility-specific requirements • Develop and review single-line diagrams, site plans, preliminary protection settings, grounding calculations, commissioning plans, and conformity assessments • Evaluate utility interconnection processes and identify opportunities to streamline engineering reviews and approvals • Conduct power-flow, short-circuit, and hosting-capacity analyses • Evaluate feeders and substations for available capacity, site suitability, and infrastructure upgrade requirements • Support grid needs assessments, distribution planning studies, and locational value evaluations • Evaluate utility operational technology capabilities including DERMS, ADMS, SCADA, and distribution management systems • Develop controls, communications architectures, and integration requirements for DER dispatch, monitoring, telemetry, and interoperability • Recommend network and communications architectures using DNP3, SunSpec Modbus, and IEEE 2030.5 • Support operational technology integration roadmaps, vendor evaluations, phased implementation, and cybersecurity considerations • Collaborate with technology providers and equipment manufacturers on battery storage and distributed generation solutions • Partner with Commercialization, Program Management, and Project Delivery on technical feasibility and program execution • Assess front-of-the-meter, behind-the-meter, and across-the-meter distributed energy opportunities • Contribute engineering expertise to cost-benefit analyses and technical assessments of emerging grid technologies • Maintain knowledge of wholesale electricity market requirements for energy storage registration, telemetry, dispatch, and settlement • Translate technical findings into recommendations for program development, utility engagement, and project delivery • Develop engineering standards, reference designs, technical templates, design review processes, and repeatable approaches across utility markets • Provide technical guidance and review for newer engineers and external engineering partners • Report to the Director, Power Systems Engineering

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET-accredited program • 8+ years of professional experience in power systems engineering, electric utility distribution planning, protection engineering, or DER interconnection • Direct experience working with electric utilities on distribution planning and interconnection, including taking projects through utility technical review and approval processes • Strong working knowledge of IEEE 1547-2018, protection coordination, effective grounding, NESC (IEEE C2), and utility standards for medium- and low-voltage distribution equipment • Hands-on proficiency with power systems modeling and analysis tools such as CYME, Synergi Electric, OpenDSS, or ASPEN • Experience conducting power-flow, short-circuit, and hosting-capacity analyses • Experience with distributed energy technologies, including battery energy storage, solar, or distributed generation • Experience integrating distributed energy technologies with utility operational systems such as SCADA, DERMS, or ADMS • Demonstrated ability to independently manage complex engineering workstreams and navigate utility-specific technical requirements • Strong technical communication skills for explaining complex engineering concepts, risks, and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Ability to travel approximately 15% for utility partner meetings, project sites, company gatherings, and industry events • Direct power systems engineering and electric utility distribution or interconnection experience is required; general electrical design, renewable energy project development, or project management alone does not substitute • Professional Engineer (PE) license or FE/EIT certification with plans to pursue licensure (nice to have) • Previous electric utility experience, particularly in distribution planning, protection, or interconnection engineering (nice to have) • Battery energy storage system design, technical evaluation, and grid integration experience (nice to have) • Familiarity with NERC CIP compliance frameworks (nice to have) • Battery energy storage project finance technical due diligence, independent engineer reports, or bankability assessments (nice to have) • Familiarity with FERC Order 2222 and distributed energy resource aggregation participation models (nice to have) • Multi-site deployment, program-based engineering, or utility grid modernization experience (nice to have) • Experience developing engineering standards, improving technical processes, or supporting organizational change (nice to have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Employer-subsidized medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance • 401(k) plan with a 2% employer match • Flexible vacation policy • Paid federal holidays • Flexible Fridays (half-day Fridays every week) • 12 weeks of gender-neutral paid caregiver leave • One-time work-from-home stipend for eligible remote roles • Monthly phone and internet allowance • Discretionary bonus or incentive compensation may be available; not guaranteed

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