American Terawatt
Power Systems Engineer
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of commercial experience in power systems or electrical engineering.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
About the job
Designs, models, validates, tests, and commissions HVDC terminals and transmission systems for large industrial power loads.
What you'll do
- Contribute to HVDC system design and validate terminal subsystems in simulation and physical hardware.
- Use EMT and transmission-system models to assess performance and translate results into requirements, specifications, and design recommendations.
- Plan and execute subsystem validation, compare test results with simulations, resolve discrepancies, and support field commissioning.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- 3+ years of commercial experience in power systems or electrical engineering.
- Hands-on experience with transmission-planning tools and EMT tools, and/or industrial/distribution tools.
- Experience across the engineering lifecycle from concept through design, development, testing, deployment, and commissioning of a functioning commercial system.
Nice to have
- Master's or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Controls, or Power Systems.
- Experience with power delivery and generation infrastructure, grid interconnection, advanced power-system studies, islanded systems, Python or MATLAB, DC transmission, or data-center/high-density compute infrastructure.
Tools
PSSE, PSLF, DIgSILENT PowerFactory, PSCAD, EMTP, ETAP, SKM PowerTools, Python
AI focus
Supports power infrastructure for frontier AI datacenters; no direct AI development work is stated.
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