Nira Energy
Software to find the best sites for renewables on the electrical grid
Transmission Planning Engineer
About the role
The Company
Nira is a software startup with a mission of accelerating the integration of large scale renewable energy projects. Developers of solar, wind, and energy storage projects use Nira’s software to find the best locations to site their projects. Nira’s software products simplify complex and niche electrical engineering concepts that would otherwise lead most renewable energy projects to be cancelled after significant investment. In less than two years, Nira has solidified a track record of success with a rapidly growing customer base. The opportunity to join such an early stage, yet risk-reduced, software company in growth mode is truly a rare opportunity.
Job Description
In this role, you’ll work with other Transmission Planning Engineers, Software Engineers, and the founders to build products that help renewable developers put together successful project portfolios. Specifically, you’ll:
- Work with software engineers to codify your knowledge and implement robust transmission planning study automation.
- Touch the full product life cycle including product ideation, building products, supporting sales, providing customer support, and maintaining products.
- Become a subject matter expert in various regions (e.g. RTOs/ISOs) to lead implementation of various study methodologies and assumptions.
About you
- You have 3+ years of running studies as a Transmission Planning Engineer
- You have experience with generation interconnection related studies. You already have a sense of what data renewable developers need to build a portfolio of successful projects.
- You have hands on experience with tools like TARA, PSS/E, Power World, PROMOD, etc.
- Experience with python is a plus
- You want to learn how to engineer software. The power of Nira comes from codifying our knowledge! You’ll work directly with some of the best software engineers in the world to create products. If you already code or are eager to learn, this is likely the highest value opportunity in the space to grow those skills.
About Nira Energy
- Nira's mission is to convert the US power grid to be 100% fossil-free.
- Nira is a software platform that helps renewable energy developers (solar/wind) find the most profitable land to build new projects.
- We focus on estimating the cost to interconnect with the electrical grid (aka the Interconnection Process). Depending on where developers connect, they may be on the hook to pay millions of dollars to upgrade power lines, substations etc.
- We are profitable!
