American Terawatt
Principal Power Systems Control Architect
San Francisco · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ years required; 20+ years preferred.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field; Master's or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Controls, or Power Systems preferred.
About the job
Designs and delivers control and protection systems, real-time control software, validation, and commissioning for American Terawatt’s HVDC terminals and transmission network.
What you'll do
- Own end-to-end control and protection architecture and software development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
- Build simulation and physical testing platforms to validate control-system performance and robustness.
- Lead commissioning and establish controls software development, testing, and review practices.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- 15+ years architecting and delivering control systems in safety-critical domains.
- Strong control theory fundamentals, including feedback/feedforward control, state estimation, and stability analysis of cascaded multi-loop systems.
- Hands-on real-time embedded control development (C/C++ on RTOS or bare-metal) and experience with modern software practices, simulation, and HIL/SIL validation.
Nice to have
- Master's or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Controls, or Power Systems.
- Power electronics control, ideally VSC HVDC; BESS and plant-level control; or fault-tolerant distributed control architectures.
Tools
C/C++, RTOS, PSCAD, EMTP, MATLAB/Simulink, PLECS, RTDS, OPAL-RT
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