Electrical Engineer

Location: United States (Remote) 

Compensation: USD $170,000 – $185,000 (base salary + bonus) 

About the Client 

root/edge is partnering with a profitable, well-capitalized independent power producer (IPP) on this search. Our client develops, owns, and operates utility-scale clean energy assets across the U.S., supplying reliable, competitively priced power to utilities and large customers. With a multi-gigawatt portfolio of solar and battery storage already operating or under construction, and a deep pipeline behind it, the business is scaling quickly and investing heavily in the engineering talent that keeps that fleet performing. 

This is a confidential search. We’ll share the client’s name and full details with candidates we take forward. 

About This Role 

This is an operations-first engineering role. Roughly 60–70% of your time is spent as the technical owner of the operating fleet: keeping high-voltage (HV) and medium-voltage (MV) systems reliable, available, and compliant across the client’s solar and storage assets. The remaining 30–40% is project execution and construction, applying that same operating knowledge to build new projects that hand over cleanly and perform from day one. 

You’ll sit within the wider engineering team and be its principal expert on the operating assets and on the successful build of new projects. When a system event happens in the field, a relay operation, a misoperation, a nuisance trip, an equipment failure, you’re the person the fleet turns to. You’ll run the root-cause work, define and implement the fix, and carry the lessons back into engineering standards and into the next project. 

What You’ll Do 

Operations Engineering (approx. 60–70%) 

• Lead field-informed troubleshooting of system events, including relay operations, misoperations, nuisance trips, and equipment failures across the operating fleet. 

• Perform root-cause analysis using relay event reports, oscillography, substation SCADA data, and equipment diagnostics (e.g., DGA, infrared, insulation testing). 

• Define and implement upgrade and retrofit projects, including protection setting changes, control system tuning, equipment replacement, and design corrections that improve reliability and performance. 

• Provide NERC and regional (e.g., CAISO/ERCOT) regulatory compliance support, ensuring operational readiness and adherence to PRC and related standards. 

• Partner with Operations on resolving ongoing technical issues and optimizing performance across the fleet. 

• Develop and maintain engineering standards, technical specifications, EPC exhibits, and testing protocols that carry operating know-how into every project. 

Project Execution & Construction (approx. 30–40%) 

• Witness and evaluate FAT/SAT, commissioning, and energization activities. 

• Apply fleet-informed design corrections and standards on new builds so that operating and reliability lessons are designed into new projects, not discovered after energization. 

• Support project delivery on substation, protection, and control scope — reviewing designs, interconnection requirements, and technical specifications through construction and handover. 

• Coordinate with EPCs, Engineers of Record, and vendors to take execution risk out of the build and protect schedule and cost. 

What You’ll Bring 

• 8+ years in HV/MV electrical engineering across operating assets and project delivery within an IPP, utility, EPC, or engineering firm. 

• The ability to diagnose and resolve plant and substation issues independently — using relay data, SCADA, inverter logs, plant historian, and equipment diagnostics — and drive the fix to completion. 

• Direct, working knowledge of major power-system equipment: how it operates, how it fails, and how to troubleshoot it — protection and control schemes, transformers, breakers, cables, metering, and substation SCADA. 

• ISO/RTO experience is required — you’ve worked within a deregulated market environment and understand interconnection and operating obligations. Experience does not need to be tied to any single ISO. 

• Solid command of NERC PRC and related standards, and the operational readiness they demand. 

• Hands-on experience witnessing and evaluating FAT/SAT, commissioning, and energization. 

• Familiarity with NEC, NESC, and IEEE standards, and comfort working across the trade-offs between technical performance, cost, and schedule. 

• Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering (Master’s a plus). 

• PE license is a nice to have, not a requirement. 

Compensation & Benefits 

• Compensation: USD $170,000 – $185,000 (base salary + bonus). 

• Comprehensive health coverage for you and your dependents (medical, dental, vision). 

• Generous paid time off and company-wide breaks. 

• Paid parental leave and family-planning support. 

• Mental health and wellbeing resources. 

• Employer retirement contribution. 

• Additional perks, including home-office setup and monthly stipends.