Senior Power System Engineer

Rivan; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Share options

HQ in Bermondsey (London)

Visa sponsorship

Private health insurance

Unlimited time off

Job summary

Rivan is seeking a Senior Power System engineer to lead the design of a >1MW solar array and its power distribution for our Bermondsey HQ in London, ensuring seamless integration with a DC electrolyser and a thermal reactor's heating elements, plus an inverter for AC distribution.

The role offers significant share options, visa sponsorship, private health insurance and unlimited time off. In-person work at our Bermondsey HQ with flexible arrangements based on personal circumstances.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in power systems or solar array design.
• Certifying solar arrays and combiner panels to BS & IEC standards.

Responsibilities

• Designing >1MW scale solar array and power distribution.
• Integrate with DC electrolyser and thermal reactor heating elements.
• Design a high-power inverter for downstream AC distribution.
• Combiner box design and optimisation.
• Cable layout, sizing and containment designs.
• Solar array cost optimisation: modelling configurations and assembly methods.

Skills

Years of experience

BS/IEC standards

Job description

Rivan Industries (Rivan.com) is a synthetic fuel company designed to decarbonise heavy industry. We aim to make synthetic fuel cheaper than fossil fuels and sustain life on earth by keeping the CO 2 locked underground.

We design and manufacture modular synthetic fuel plants consisting of a DAC system, an Alkaline Electrolyser, and a Sabatier Reactor, whilst vertically integrating with off-grid DC solar and the European gas-grid. Here’s our entire business plan. We’ve recently deployed the UK’s largest synthetic fuel plant and are planning to 1000x this scale in the next 2 years.

Rivan runs on DC solar. We’re one of the only products that wants a DC electron as far away from an electrical grid as possible. Almost everything on our product depends on a seamless transition of electronics from a panel through to our thermal reactor and electrolyser. We’re on the lookout for a Senior Power System engineer to take the horns of our DC solar array design, remove all the entropy, and make the safety and simplest distribution of electricity possible. Make sure you’re the engineer that designs the solar power system that enables the transition of every last joule of energy away from fossil sources.

The role

• Designing >1MW scale solar array and power distribution
  • Designed to directly integrate with a DC electrolyser, and thermal reactor (heating elements)
  • The array will also integrate with a high-power inverter for downstream AC distribution
• Combiner box design and optimisation
• Cable layout, sizing and containment designs
• Solar array cost optimisation
  • Modelling different configurations and assembly methods

Core skills

• 5+ years experience
• Certifying solar array and combiner panels to BS & IEC standards

Specifics

• £100 – 140k Salary depending on experience
  • Significant share options as part of the early team
  • In-person work at our HQ in Bermondsey, South-East London – flexibility considered based on personal circumstances
  • Visa sponsorship available
  • Private health insurance
  • Unlimited time off

We encourage exceptional applicants from all backgrounds to apply for this role, even if they do not meet all the requirements listed.