Founding Power Systems Engineer
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Aran Industries
US
Summary
The role involves delivering comprehensive power-system studies for data-center power plants and grid interconnections. Additionally, the engineer will build an automated parametric engine to make these studies repeatable and scalable for future projects.
Job Description
The role
Own every study that gets our data-center power plants energized and interconnected. You deliver real power-system studies on live projects AND build the automated engine that makes those studies repeatable for every future project.
- Deliver complete study packages on live projects: load-flow, short-circuit, arc-flash (IEEE 1584), protection & relay coordination, motor-starting, and harmonic / power-quality studies in ETAP.
- Run electromagnetic-transient & dynamic studies in PSCAD/EMTDC for behind-the-meter (BTM) generation and grid interconnection: inverter-based-resource modeling, switching and insulation-coordination transients, sub-synchronous and control interactions, and fault ride-through.
- Own grid interconnection: utility interconnection studies and submittals, BTM-vs-grid-tied architecture trade-offs, and the studies required for the 800VDC data-center power transition.
- Build a parametric study engine that generates these studies (ETAP/PSCAD model build, scenario sweeps, automated report generation) from a single parameter template automating the arc-flash, protection-coordination, and interconnection workflows.
- Own cross-discipline coordination: protection settings & equipment ratings feeding electrical single-lines and equipment sizing; study assumptions aligned with mechanical and structural loads
What we look for
- Deep hands-on ETAP and PSCAD/EMTDC; bonus for scripting/automating them (etapPy / ETAP DataHub, mhi.pscad) or adjacent tools (PowerFactory powfacpy, pandapower, OpenDSS, PSS/E)
- Real experience with arc-flash (IEEE 1584), protection & coordination, and utility interconnection studies
- A builder: you'd rather write the engine that runs the 100th study than run it by hand
- Genuine pull toward the data-center power / 800VDC problem
What Matters
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PE license in at least one US state preferred but not required
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Ability to do the engineering and think about how to automate it
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Attitude and curiosity over years of experience
Full-time W-2 | Remote US | Competitive base + founding-team equity
