Director – Platform Hardware Engineering

Fluence (Nasdaq: FLNC) is a global market leader delivering intelligent energy storage and optimization software for renewables and storage. Our solutions and operational services are helping to create a more resilient grid and unlock the full potential of renewable portfolios. With gigawatts of successful implementations across nearly 50 markets, we are transforming the way we power our world for a more sustainable future.

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Description:

The Director – Platform Hardware Engineering is a leadership role responsible for defining and driving multi-platform hardware architecture, engineering strategy, and organizational capability across complex product portfolios. Reporting directly to Engineering Leadership (VP), the Platform Director leads and mentors a team of Platform Leaders and Engineers to ensure cohesive execution, technical leadership, platform modularity, high reliability, and operational excellence from concept through global deployment.

This leader operates at the intersection of long-term business strategy, hardware architecture, multi-generational product roadmaps, and cross-functional operational governance. The Platform Director owns portfolio-level Design-to-Cost goals, time-to-market performance, tactical & strategic capability partners’ alignment, and the deployment of engineering standards across global engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities
1) Strategic Platform Vision & Architecture Platform Architecture & Modularity:
Define and drive multi-generational hardware platform architectures, establishing reusable building blocks, standard interfaces, and scalable options/variants across global project configurations.

Technology

Roadmap:

Lead technology trade-off studies, integration of innovative technologies (e.g., advanced power conversion, thermal systems, auxiliary integration).2) Technical Leadership & Talent Development Technical Leadership:
Provide technical requirements direction to engineering leads and specialists across all work streams and related disciplines. Engineering Competency Development:
Support Engineering leads to establish technical competency frameworks, engineering best practices, design standards, training programs, and knowledge-sharing mechanisms.

Culture of Engineering Excellence:
Foster a culture of technical rigor, accountability, innovation, data-driven decision-making, continuous improvement, and ownership.

Technical Community Leadership:
Build strong collaboration across global engineering teams and establish mechanisms for sharing architecture, design standards, lessons learned, and reusable solutions.

System and Component Requirements:
Collaborate with the Systems Engineering to establish the System and Component Requirements in Jama.
3) Engineering Execution & Delivery Workstream Planning:
Align with the P2D gates and define the Engineering milestones for each of the gates.

Full-Lifecycle Ownership:
Lead hardware engineering milestones across all release gates—from initial concept definition through prototyping, testing, validation, pilot builds, and full-scale manufacturing rollout.

Technical Requirements:
Establish hardware design specifications, and acceptance criteria in alignment with international standards (IEC, UL, IEEE).Cross-Functional Engineering Alignment:
Collaborate with multi-disciplinary technical teams including Product Management, Project Engineering, Program Management, Engineering (mechanical, electrical hardware, Battery, PCS, Grid modeling, thermal engineering, system engineering), lab testing operations, NPI, Sourcing, Advanced Procurement and firmware/software interfaces to deliver cost-effective designs with supreme quality adhering to the program timelines.

Prototype Planning and…