A grid-forming controls company whose inverter control firmware runs on utility-scale battery storage and solar IBR plants across several US wholesale markets.
Seven controls engineers split across firmware and grid integration. You report to the Director of Controls Engineering.
The control firmware that voltage-forms on a real battery plant has to ride through faults the simulation never quite captured. A plant in a weak corner of the grid, low short-circuit ratio, sees a single-line-to-ground fault and the inverter has to hold voltage instead of tripping. The IEEE 2800 Annex A validation campaign is the gate, and the RTDS bench has to agree with the field before the POI energizes.
Grid-forming control of inverter-based resources is the whole job: writing and tuning the GFM control loops that form voltage rather than follow it. Day-to-day is droop and virtual-synchronous-machine control design, fast frequency response and reactive capability at the point of interconnection, and characterizing how the plant behaves in weak grids. When a transmission owner pushes back on your ride-through numbers, you go back to the RTDS bench and PSCAD model and prove it.
A national EV charging network operator deploying fast chargers at scale along highway corridors and in metropolitan areas.
Large investor-owned utility serving millions of customers across several states, navigating the transition from synchronous generation to a grid dominated by inverter-based resources.
EV manufacturer producing commercial electric trucks. The company has delivered hundreds of Class 6-8 electric trucks and is launching a next-generation battery platform with a new cell chemistry.
Senior Controls Engineer, Grid-Forming Inverter Systems
$170K - $195K base
