Principal Implementation Engineer, Power Factors
Digital infrastructure management for renewable energy
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Digital infrastructure management for renewable energy
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To constantly reinvent, develop, and deliver the most advanced infrastructure management systems.
Role
Who you are
- A successful candidate will enjoy working in a purpose-driven organization and thrives in environments that require deep domain expertise, precise technical execution, and trusted advisor-level customer engagement
- The candidate manages multiple concurrent complex engagements, communicates with credibility across both technical and business stakeholders, and is driven by delivering outcomes that matter to the people operating renewable assets
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- Power Factors is looking for a Principal Implementation Engineer to join our Professional Services team in leading complex, high-stakes platform implementations for renewable energy asset owners and operators
- As a Principal IE, you will serve as the technical and domain authority throughout the customer engagement lifecycle, co-owning end-to-end delivery of our software solutions for utility-scale solar, wind, and BESS customers
- Our platform ingests millions of IoT and other data points, cleanses the data, detects performance issues, identifies leading indicators of future problems, and delivers advanced analytics to help customers maximize asset performance. In addition to monitoring and analytics, the platform provides the toolsets needed to turn insights into action, including case management and work order management capabilities
- You will play an important role within GCO by using both professional and domain expertise to help the team achieve delivery goals, whether through mentoring implementation engineers on renewable energy fundamentals, driving methodology improvements, surfacing field insights back to Product, or raising the quality bar on customer-facing deliverables
- You will work remotely with an international team across the US, Canada, Sweden, Germany, Greece, India, and the Philippines
- Lead end-to-end implementations for utility-scale solar, wind, and BESS customers
- Serve as the domain authority on how technically sophisticated customers, including Performance Engineering teams, Asset Management organizations, and Operations leaders, intend to use the platform and interpret its output
- Lead technical discovery workshops and translate operational requirements and design into platform configuration, covering KPIs, dashboards, analytics, data onboarding, and integrations
- Review and validate implementation deliverables for technical accuracy, ensuring configured data structures and analytics outputs align with industry standards and customer expectations
- Drive UAT and production readiness through Technical Support handoff with the credibility of someone who has lived the workflows being validated
- Mentor others on the team to build renewable energy domain fluency across the PS team
- Contribute to continuous improvement of implementation methodology, solution design templates, Professional Services runbooks, and validation standards
- Surface renewable industry requirements and field observations back to Product and Engineering from direct customer engagement
Our take
There are major efforts across the energy sector to take advantage of digital transformation. Renewables in particular are focusing on revenue-maximisation and income stacking instead of cultivating a dependence on subsidies, both of which require laser-tight monitoring and performance optimisation. For over two decades now, Power Factors - formerly Inaccess - has been providing a digital platform for precisely this.
Power Factors’ key product is Unity, a supervisory control and data acquisition system that allows organisations across the renewable, industrial, and infrastructure sectors to monitor and maximise performance in their generation centres. It’s been used in some of the largest global battery storage projects and allows organisations to bring project management across owner, developer, and operator teams into one space.
As market forces are expected to overtake subsidies as the driving force for competition in the renewables sector, it’s expected that more operators will be investing in systems that will generate a competitive edge. This is good news for Power Factors, which comes to the growing market with extensive experience and deep industry penetration.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2009
$0.2m
GRANT
Oct 2008
$0.2m
GRANT
Total funding: $0.3m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary according to your qualifications
- On call rotations paid extra
- Remote work with optional on-premises
- Opportunity to work in a hot industry and make an impact
- Respect of work-life balance
- Private health insurance plan
- All around knowledge of business logic
- You will have the opportunity to work closely with a highly motivated multicultural team in a dynamic and fast paced environment that provides the ground and the opportunity for international career development
Company HQ
West End, Waltham, MA
Leadership
Took a PhD in broadband telecommunication systems, and before spending over two decades at Inaccess also held roles at Teletel and 4plus Technologies.
Also a Board Member at Smartlinx. Previously worked as an Operating Partner at Advent International, Interim CEO at Viventium and was a Board Member for Azalea Health.
Deborah Beatty
(Chief Strategy Officer)Previously a Board Member for ARHT Media and was the Senior Vice President at PointClickCare.
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