Software Engineer, Intersect
Microgrid Controls Validation Engineer
$185-195k
OTE
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Clean energy company
Open for applications
Clean energy company
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$185-195k
OTE
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To preserve our planet for future generations through low-carbon energy and infrastructure solutions.
Role
Who you are
- B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- 3–7+ years of experience in real-time system validation, embedded software testing, or SIL/HIL simulation
- Ability to design automated test pipelines and verification metrics for real-time or embedded systems
- Experience with simulation tools such as Simulink or Modelica and real-time simulators, including SIL, HIL, or comparable validation methods
- Proficiency in industrial control and embedded languages such as C++, IEC 61131-3 Structured Text, SEL RTAC logic, CODESYS, Lua, Rust, or C
- Experience with modern development practices including version control and automated validation workflows
- Familiarity with utility grid interconnection and market requirements, particularly in ERCOT
- A collaborative work style and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional technical teams
- Strong attention to detail and a mindset focused on safety, quality, and system reliability
What the job involves
- As part of Intersect’s Microgrid Engineering team, you’ll define and implement the validation framework that ensures microgrid control software performs safely and reliably before it reaches the field
- This role focuses on building simulation environments, validation tools, and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing that verify controls code across real-world operating conditions
- Working closely with controls engineers, power systems engineers, utilities, and external partners, you’ll help ensure microgrid systems meet performance, compliance, and reliability expectations at scale
- This team plays a critical role in advancing Intersect’s mission to accelerate the clean energy transition, designing and operating systems that deliver reliable power at massive scale
- The Microgrid Engineering team works across software, hardware, operations, and external stakeholders to validate complex systems under realistic conditions, ensuring safety, performance, and long-term operability
- Joining this team offers hands-on exposure to advanced validation techniques and large-scale energy systems while contributing to work that has real-world impact
- Develop software validation tools and simulation frameworks that exercise control algorithms across a full range of operating conditions, including failure modes, communication delays, and equipment faults
- Define requirements and approaches for using real-time simulators for Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing
- Automate test execution to create reproducible validation workflows and reporting tools
- Design verification metrics that demonstrate control performance, safety, and compliance
- Collaborate with engineering teams, utilities, and external stakeholders to define test cases and performance requirements
- Validate both steady-state behavior and abnormal operating scenarios
- Support analysis of field operating data to refine simulation models and identify edge cases
- Integrate field learnings back into regression test suites to continuously improve validation coverage
- Maintain a well-structured repository of validation assets, test artifacts, and documentation
- Ensure clear version control, traceability, and repeatability across validation workflows
Our take
Intersect is expanding access to clean electricity to help drive broad-based decarbonization. The company develops some of the world's largest clean energy resources and delivers these low-carbon solutions to customers around the globe.
Intersect is redefining what it means to be a clean power developer by constantly looking at new industries that it could vertically integrate into, to get closer to its goal of deep decarbonization. The company was born from innovation, conceived as an alternative to the traditional selling of electricity under long term PPA, which is demonstrative of the company’s determination to challenge the status quo and approach projects at scale without destroying value.
Excitingly, Intersect has partnered with Google and TPG Rise Climate (TPG) to drive the expansion of renewable power and storage solutions for data centers across the US. This collaboration is set to deliver gigawatts of new capacity and catalyze a $20B investment in renewable energy infrastructure by the decades end. With its first co-located clean energy project already in the works and expected to be operation by 2026, Intersect is very much paving the way for a sustainable future in the data center industry.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
91% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Greenway, Beaverton, OR
Leadership
Sheldon Kimber
(Founder & CEO)Previously acted as COO for Recurrent Energy. Also spent 9 years at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business as a Lecturer.
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