(Senior) BESS Solutions Engineer Australia
Job Summary
As TWAICEs first technical hire on the ground in Australia you sit at the intersection of customer-facing engineering and battery performance analysis. You will be TWAICEs primary technical point of contact for asset owners and O&M teams across Australia. The role spans pre-sales and post-sales: technical discovery data-readiness assessments customer onboarding and performance analysis for commissioning and augmentation events. You should be ready to work independently in the Australian timezone while bridging local customer needs with TWAICE teams across Tech Sales and Customer Success.
This is a role for someone who has worked inside the BESS industry and is both able to and genuinely energized by operating credibly with both technical and commercial stakeholders. You understand what a capacity test actually measures why cell voltage spread matters what good data readiness looks like and can explain it sharply to technical and non-technical audiences alike. This isnt an Owners Engineer EPC manager or Commissioning manager role. Instead you turn live BESS data into actionable insight help customers scope and adopt TWAICE successfully and carry technical context seamlessly from pre-sales through in-life support.
This role exists to serve our Australian customer base during AEST business hours. Youll own that timezone independently while flexibly overlapping to collaborate with the broader CS Engineering team in Europe and the US regularly.
- Serving as primary technical contact for Australian customers building relationships with both technical and commercial stakeholders
- Supporting pre-sales alongside Sales: technical discovery data-readiness assessments and architecture discussions
- Leading technical onboarding: reviewing Single Line Diagrams mapping sensor hierarchies (cell to string to rack to enclosure to PCS to system) and configuring sensor specifications in Databricks before KPI rollout
- Managing KPI rollout and validation: releasing TWAICE KPIs and diagnosing sensor data quality issues insufficient cycling data and aggregation errors
- Leading performance analysis during commissioning and augmentation: interpreting capacity test results flagging anomalies (cell imbalances voltage spread issues RTE gaps) and producing executive-ready outputs.
- Surfacing recurring product gaps and customer feedback to Product and Engineering
- Running platform training for performance engineers O&M leads and asset managers
- Up to 40% travel for customer meetings and on-site visits across Australia
- BESS industry experience is required. You have worked as a performance engineer systems engineer or O&M engineer. You know what happens inside a BESS project from commissioning through the first year of operation
- Degree in Engineering Science or a related field or equivalent demonstrated BESS experience
- Comfortable with Python in an analytical context: processing sensor data validating signal quality debugging anomalies. Databricks experience is a plus
- Deep knowledge of lithium-ion battery behavior degradation mechanisms capacity fade DC internal resistance SoC estimation and cell voltage/temperature imbalances
- Familiarity with BESS data flows and ingestion protocols (Modbus IEC-104 OPC-UA REST API SFTP)
- Familiarity with the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) - including dispatch mechanics FCAS markets capacity credit obligations and 5-minute settlement - and how these shape BESS operating constraints and asset owner priorities
- Understanding that NEM time (UTC10 no DST) is used for grid-connected asset data logging in Australia and the implications this has for KPI configuration and data validation is a plus
- Communication is sharp and clear no matter the audience
- Organized customer-focused and comfortable in a fast-moving startup
- Flexible Working: We trust you to get the job done. Remote-first with autonomy on how and where you deliver. Everyone comes together for our annual kick-off at Munich HQ.
- Equity Participation: Every employee is offered a stock-option plan so you can share in TWAICEs success.
- Benefits: Superannuation 20 days annual leave
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
The world is transitioning towards renewable energy generation and sustainable transportation to counteract global climate change. Batteries are both the key and the achilles heel of this transition. Our mission is to enable efficient development and long lifetime of stationary energy ... View more