Principal Power Electronics Engineer

Houston, Texas, United States;
Miami, Florida, United States;
Reston, Virginia, United States

ON.energy is building the power infrastructure that makes the AI era possible. As AI demand surges past what the grid and traditional data centers can support, ON.energy provides a new class of power technology proven at gigawatt scale and trusted by the world’s leading cloud and AI companies. Our systems are already deployed across 2.5 GW of hyper-scale campuses, validated by top U.S. national labs, and certified for grid-safe operation by major utilities.

With real products in the field, we’re scaling faster than the grid can, transforming power from a bottleneck into a competitive advantage for the companies building the future.

We’re looking for a Principal Power Electronics Engineer to set the technical direction for the grid-connected inverters at the heart of ON.energy’s AI UPS product family. This is the senior technical voice for power electronics on the product team: you architect the converter and controls approach, resolve the hardest engineering trade-offs, set the engineering standards others work to, and represent ON.energy’s

inverter engineering externally — to vendors, customers, certifying bodies, and the broader industry. You are fluent in power electronics, its controls (grid-following and grid-forming), and BESS integration — ideally with UPS experience in mission-critical applications — and you own the inverter technical thread from proposal through FAT, commissioning, and field feedback for MW-scale systems.

• Own the grid-connected-inverter product architecture and converter-controls strategy — grid-following and grid-forming operation, current limiting, and dynamic grid support — and the technical roadmap across concurrent product cycles.
• Define the engineering standards, design rules, and review gates the team works to; act as the final technical authority on the inverter change baseline.
• Serve as the company’s SME for grid-code and UPS performance compliance — IEEE 2800, IEEE 1547, UL 1741, IEC 62040-3, ERCOT ride-through — and set the inverter qualification / type-test program, acceptance criteria, and current-limit / short-circuit and data-evidence requirements suppliers must meet.
• Act as the ultimate escalation point for inverter root-cause analysis (current-limit, post-fault recovery, thermal, control instability) and drive corrective design changes.
• Mentor senior power-electronics, controls, and project engineers to scale the team’s technical capability.

• Own the strategic inverter vendor / OEM relationships and decide their architecture — sole-source vs dual-source, co-development depth, and IP boundaries.
• Set and enforce the inverter technical qualification process; run the highest-stakes design reviews and resolve the highest-stakes vendor escalations personally.
• Oversee vendors through design, FAT, serial production, and post-deployment corrective action; own procurement technical specifications and acceptance.
• Maintain vendor scorecards and drive continuous improvement across the supply base.

• Support business development with technical proposals — SLDs and GAs — that meet the customer’s needs, and compile inverter technical information packages for the project engineering team.
• Co-lead review and validation of inverter-related topics during project execution; maintain technical documentation, including as-built drawings.
• Support integration of the inverter with the EMS, Plant Controller, and SCADA layers.
• Capture design-improvement feedback across the design, commissioning, and O&M phases and turn it into product changes.
• Recommend design approaches and vendors for the main equipment; participate in product design sprints and in the product’s commissioning phase.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, or a closely related technical field; MS preferred.
• 10+ years of hands-on power-electronics engineering, with a demonstrated record of operating with minimal direction in a senior technical role.
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