Lead Electrical Applications Engineer Customer-Facing Power

Confidential Jobs; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Jobs is seeking a Lead Electrical Applications Engineer in Houston to drive customer-facing power solution development, spanning power systems, switchgear, transformers, and interconnection topics.

You will work directly with customers to capture requirements, translate them into executable architectures, and lead major technical opportunities as a senior individual contributor. This role emphasizes front-end solution development and alignment with project execution teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering required.
• 5+ years of professional electrical engineering experience.
• Ability to translate customer requirements into practical electrical system architecture.
• Experience leading or supporting customer-facing technical discussions.
• Strong knowledge of low- and medium-voltage electrical systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of distributed generation and solutions for customer opportunities, including system architecture, equipment sizing, and technical scope.
• Develop and review electrical designs, single-line diagrams, system layouts, and low- and medium-voltage configurations.
• Apply working knowledge of switchgear, transformers, generation, electrical distribution, and interconnection systems.
• Evaluate load, capacity, redundancy, reliability, cost, constructability, and schedule when making system-level design decisions.
• Serve as a primary technical interface with customers through discovery meetings, whiteboarding sessions, presentations, technical reviews, and site visits.
• Determine the underlying electrical requirement when a customer’s initial request does not fully define the problem.
• Lead technical responses to RFPs and specification packages, including compliance matrices, technical narratives, exceptions, and supporting documentation.
• Coordinate technical input from engineering, EPC, R&D, product, commercial, and other subject-matter experts.
• Lead technical development of large opportunities while reviewing work completed by junior engineers on smaller proposals.
• Advise internal leadership on technical risk, resource requirements, and solution feasibility.
• Support handoff from front-end solution development into detailed engineering and project execution.

Skills

Electrical power systems

Power distribution

Switchgear

Transformers

Interconnection systems

Single-line diagrams

Customer-facing discussions

System architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

ETAP

PSCAD

PSS/E

MATLAB/Simulink

AutoCAD

Job description

Confidential Jobs is seeking a Lead Electrical Applications Engineer in Houston to drive customer-facing power solution development, spanning power systems, switchgear, transformers, and interconnection topics.

You will work directly with customers to capture requirements, translate them into executable architectures, and lead major technical opportunities as a senior individual contributor. This role emphasizes front-end solution development and alignment with project execution teams.