Principal Implementation Engineer Power Factors
Job Summary
About Power Factors
Power Factors is accelerating the green energy transition by providing advanced analytics and AI insights to operators of renewable energy assets. Our SaaS platforms are used to manage over 250 GW of wind solar hydro and energy storage projects globally. By driving down operational costs and increasing revenue we are tackling one of the worlds most important challenges: making renewable energy the worlds leading source of power. Our vision is to create a sustainable world powered by renewable energy. Our mission is to fight climate change with code.
We are looking for a Principal Implementation Engineer to join our Professional Services team leading complex high-stakes platform implementations for renewable energy asset owners and operators. As a Principal IE you will serve as the technical and domain authority throughout the customer engagement lifecycle co-owning end-to-end delivery of our software solutions for utility-scale solar wind and BESS customers.
Our platform ingests millions of IoT and other data points cleanses the data detects performance issues identifies leading indicators of future problems and delivers advanced analytics to help customers maximize asset addition to monitoring and analytics the platform provides the toolsets needed to turn insights into action including case management and work order management capabilities.
You will play an important role within GCO by using both professional and domain expertise to help the team achieve delivery goals whether through mentoring implementation engineers on renewable energy fundamentals driving methodology improvements surfacing field insights back to Product or raising the quality bar on customer-facing deliverables. You will work remotely with an international team across the US Canada Sweden Germany Greece India and the Philippines.
The Role What Youll Do
Customer Delivery & Engagement
- Lead end-to-end implementations for utility-scale solar wind and BESS customers.
- Serve as the domain authority on how technically sophisticated customers including Performance Engineering teams Asset Management organizations and Operations leaders intend to use the platform and interpret its output.
- Drive UAT and production readiness through Technical Support handoff with the credibility of someone who has lived the workflows being validated.
Technical Discovery & Configuration
- Lead technical discovery workshops and translate operational requirements and design decisions into platform configuration covering KPIs dashboards analytics data onboarding and integrations.
- Review and validate implementation deliverables for technical accuracy ensuring configured data structures and analytics outputs align with industry standards and customer expectations.
Team Development & Methodology
- Mentor team members to build renewable energy domain fluency across the PS team.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of implementation methodology solution design templates Professional Services runbooks and validation standards.
Cross-functional Contribution
- Surface renewable industry requirements and field observations back to Product and Engineering from direct customer engagement.
Must-Have Qualifications
- 8 years of experience working inside the renewable energy industry in asset management performance engineering O&M or a comparable technical role at an IPP asset owner OEM analytics team or renewable monitoring organization including several years of PV experience.
- Hands-on operational experience with SCADA systems electrical drawings as-built drawings data historians or APM platforms; able to interrogate time-series data diagnose performance issues and validate data quality in production environments.
- Deep familiarity with renewable energy performance concepts: power curve analysis performance ratio availability calculations energy yield variance loss categorization and O&M cost structures.
- Strong working knowledge of SQL and data structures; able to independently interrogate datasets and validate platform outputs.
- Technical aptitude for SaaS configuration APIs data mapping and transformation and troubleshooting complex customer environments.
- Demonstrated ability to translate operational requirements into software configuration decisions with ownership and precision.
- Strong customer-facing communication skills including the ability to engage performance engineers and asset managers as a peer on the details that matter to them.
- Organized detail-oriented and comfortable managing multiple concurrent implementations across a global customer base.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
Beneficial Qualifications
- Direct experience with renewable energy APM (Asset Performance Management) platforms.
- Domain depth in wind energy: meteorology power performance turbine reliability or turbine operations in addition to PV.
- Experience leading complex multi-stakeholder deployments involving large datasets integrations and operational change management.
- Experience working in a cloud environment (AWS Azure or GCP).
- Advanced degree in Engineering Energy Systems Data Science or a related quantitative field.
- Experience working in a workshop format and helping to translate data and requirements into actionable designs.
What We Offer
- Comprehensive benefits package including health dental and vision coverage plus dedicated wellness support.
- Generous paid vacation policy.
- Employer RRSP matching program.
- Work-from-abroad opportunities with manager approval.
- Exposure to a global team operating across multiple countries and time zones.
- A humble cause with a clear purpose you will help us fight climate change with code every day at work.
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