Power Electronics Engineer

Number of employees

184

Tysons Corner, Virginia, United States

Posted on: 2022-08-12

Category: renewables

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Energy Vault® develops and deploys utility-scale energy storage solutions designed to transform the world's approach to sustainable energy storage. The company's comprehensive offerings include proprietary gravity-based storage, battery storage, and green hydrogen energy storage technologies.  Each storage solution is supported by the Company’s hardware technology-agnostic energy management system software and integration platform. 

Unique to the industry, Energy Vault’s innovative technology portfolio delivers customized short-and-long-duration energy storage solutions to help utilities, independent power producers, and large industrial energy users significantly reduce levelized energy costs while maintaining power reliability. Utilizing eco-friendly materials with the ability to integrate waste materials for beneficial reuse, Energy Vault’s EVx™ gravity-based energy storage technology is facilitating the shift to a circular economy while accelerating the global clean energy transition for its customers. 

About Energy Vault
Energy Vault develops sustainable energy storage solutions designed to transform the world’s approach to utility-scale energy storage for grid resiliency. Our proprietary gravity-based Energy Storage Technology and the Energy Storage Management and Integration Platform are intended to help utilities, independent power producers and large industrial energy users significantly reduce their levelized cost of energy while maintaining power reliability. Utilizing eco-friendly materials with the ability to integrate waste materials for beneficial re-use, Energy Vault is facilitating the shift to a circular economy while accelerating the clean energy transition for its customers. Energy Vault is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbols NRGV and NRGV WS. For more information, please visit www.energyvault.com.

About EV Solutions
EV Solutions is a division within Energy Vault that focuses on creating technology agnostic customer focused solutions.  Utilizing its proprietary hardware architecture and technology agnostic software controls and optimization platform EVS caters to customers in enabling a renewable energy world. 
 
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced and hands-on Power Electronics Engineer – Energy Storage Systems (ESS) to join our team.  As our perfect candidate for the role, you will provide leadership with our product development and project delivery by establishing processes and creating technical documents. As we rapidly grow and deliver several projects simultaneously globally, you will help document and build scalable processes, technical solutions, and products.

At Energy Vault we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants. We believe inclusion creates opportunity for collaborative excellence through diversity of thought. We invite individuals of all genders, races, identities, ethnicities, sexual orientations, national origins, abilities, protected veteran status, religions, educational and socioeconomic backgrounds to explore employment with our organization.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the validation tests, troubleshooting, commissioning, and implementation of power electronics of the battery storage system. This includes but is not limited to:
  • Work with customer to determine system requirements and verify our solution will meet and exceed our customer’s requirements
  • Plan design verification tests for AC/DC converter and DC systems.
  • Perform in-depth evaluation of power electronic systems like DC/AC converters
  • Prepare and maintain product development technical documents such as all technical design philosophy, calculations, datasheets, bill of material, diagrams, and layouts
  • What a qualified candidate should possess

  • Master’s Degree in Electrical/Power Electronics Engineering (PhD a plus)
  • 2+ years’ experience in design of power electronics systems in product development or application engineering role
  • Deep technical knowledge of inverter-based generation systems design, operation, and maintenance
  • Experience with designing, testing, analyzing, evaluating power electronics systems (AC/DC and DC/DC converters)
  • Experience working on PSCAD, PSS/E and other modeling software
  • Familiarity with relevant industry and standards such as UL 1741 SA, IEEE 1547, NERC standards, ISO requirements
  • Experience in renewable energy or energy storage industry a plus
  • Willingness to travel
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