SCADA Engineer

Adapture Renewables, Inc.; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan with match

Health, vision, dental benefits

Generous paid time off

Job summary

Adapture Renewables, Inc. is seeking a SCADA Engineer to support our solar and BESS fleet from the Oakland hybrid office.

You will own SCADA design, deployment, and troubleshooting across the EPC, Asset Management, and O&M teams, focusing on protection, controls, and storage integration. The role requires deep SCADA experience in utility-scale projects, hands-on BESS and protection knowledge, and the ability to collaborate with ISOs/RTOs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with SCADA systems in utility-scale energy environments, including BESS or protection and controls.
• Hands-on experience with solar plant automation, inverters, DAS components, and common protocols (Modbus, DNP3, IEC 61850).
• Familiarity with OT/IT policies, NERC CIP Low Impact BES, and market interfaces (ISOs/RTOs).
• Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to support field technicians remotely in real time.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical owner of the SCADA function across operating fleet and new-build projects; deploy and troubleshoot plant automation.
• Support BESS SCADA and controls, including BMS, EMS, PCS.
• Review protection and control settings for relays and inverters; coordinate with protection engineers.
• Provide live remote support during operational events to diagnose communications and telemetry issues.
• Interface with ISOs/RTOs to ensure market connectivity and dispatch readiness.

Skills

SCADA systems

BESS experience

Protection & controls

Industrial networking

DAS components

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

SEL RTACs

PPC/SCADA systems

Ignition/SCADA platforms

SQL

Python

Job description

Opportunity

Adapture Renewables, Inc. is on a mission to be a leader in this new era of sustainable energy. Drawing upon an extensive knowledge base, we develop, finance, engineer, build, own, and operate high quality utility-scale photovoltaic and battery energy storage (BESS) projects. Our Technology team is looking for a talented SCADA Engineer to support our growing solar and storage fleet. Adapture Renewables is owned by KIRKBI, the private holding and investment company of the Kirk Kristiansen family, founded to build a sustainable future for the LEGO® brand through generations.

Overview

This position sits on our Technology team and reports to the Sr. Director of Technology & Security. The SCADA Engineer provides design, proactive, and reactive support for our EPC and Asset Management teams and our O\&M providers, and serves as the technical owner of SCADA across our operating solar and BESS fleet and new-build projects. The role's primary focus is BESS, protection, and controls: integrating, commissioning, and supporting storage controls, power plant controllers, and protection systems as our storage portfolio grows. The role keeps devices compliant with Technology policies and procedures and makes sure all plant automation is properly deployed and supported.

Location: We strongly prefer candidates who live in the San Francisco Bay Area. This is a hybrid role based out of our Oakland office, with occasional travel, primarily to SCADA integrator facilities for factory acceptance testing (FAT). Remote will be considered only for exceptional candidates.

Core Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical owner of the SCADA function across our operating fleet and new-build projects; deploy and troubleshoot solar PV and BESS plant automation.
• Support and troubleshoot BESS SCADA and controls, including battery management systems (BMS), energy management systems (EMS), and power conversion systems (PCS).
• Review and confirm BESS provider points lists, including auxiliary and safety systems (HVAC, fire detection and suppression), and work with the EPC and its SCADA integrator so SCADA and alarming are built to our requirements; support capacity and performance testing.
• Review and maintain protection and control settings for relays, inverters, PCS, and PPCs (ride-through, frequency response, voltage and reactive power control), and coordinate settings changes with protection engineers and utilities.
• Provide live remote support to field technicians during operational events to diagnose communication failures and restore telemetry and SCADA visibility.
• Support NERC CIP Low Impact compliance with the OT Security Engineer: maintain SCADA asset inventories, configuration baselines, and supporting evidence, and follow IT/OT policies and OT change management across the fleet.
• Interface with QSEs, RTOs, and ISOs to ensure market compliance and deadlines are met, including dispatch and state-of-charge telemetry for storage assets.
• Support AGC and dispatch enablement and capability testing with utilities, balancing authorities, and QSEs.
• Witness factory acceptance testing (FAT) of SCADA, PPC, and BESS control systems at integrator facilities before shipment to site.
• Support commissioning of new solar PV and BESS projects; configure and validate SCADA and power plant controller (PPC) systems prior to COD.
• Support NERC reliability-standard compliance for inverter-based resources (e.g., PRC-024, PRC-028 disturbance monitoring, PRC-029 ride-through), including relay, meter, and DME configuration and data retention.
• Own the SCADA design specifications used in EPC contracts; review EPC and SCADA integrator designs and audit builds during construction so changes are made before substantial completion.
• Own SCADA data quality and alarm response for plant telemetry feeding internal analytics and performance-monitoring platforms, including sensor and communication faults; coordinate fixes with O\&M providers.
• Lead root-cause analysis of PPC, controls, and communication failures that cause lost generation, and drive fixes with OEMs and integrators, including warranty claims.
• Work with inverter, EMS, and BMS vendors to secure our access to and visibility into vendor-controlled systems.
• With the OT Security Engineer, maintain site-level OT protections, perform OT network discovery at new sites, manage third-party vendor remote access to SCADA systems, and configure devices to forward logs to central monitoring.
• Maintain documentation of SCADA configurations, network diagrams, and device inventories.
• Maintain configuration backups for RTACs, PPCs, relays, and meters, and manage privileged device credentials securely.

Qualifications And Experience

• 5+ years of experience with SCADA systems in utility-scale BESS, solar, or renewable energy environments, including at least 2 years with BESS or protection and controls.
• Hands-on experience with solar plant automation, including inverters, trackers, communication protocols (Modbus, DNP3, IEC 61850, OPC UA, MQTT/Sparkplug B, IEEE C37.118), and DAS components.
• Working knowledge of industrial networking and communications: VLANs, routing, and firewalls; serial, fiber, and cellular links; and time synchronization (GPS clocks, IRIG-B, PTP/NTP).
• Hands-on experience with SEL products strongly preferred, including RTACs, protective relays, meters, and AcSELerator software; experience with SEL Blueframe a plus. Familiarity with SCADA/HMI and historian platforms.
• Hands-on experience with BESS SCADA and controls, including PPC, BMS, EMS, and PCS integration, and with storage dispatch, state-of-charge management, and hybrid solar-plus-storage sites.
• Working knowledge of power system protection and controls, including relay settings and coordination, inverter ride-through, and PPC functions (voltage and reactive power control, frequency response, curtailment).
• Familiarity with NERC CIP compliance requirements for Low Impact BES assets and OT security frameworks such as IEC 62443 preferred.
• Experience interfacing with ISOs/RTOs (CAISO, ERCOT, PJM, etc.) and understanding of market connectivity requirements, including ICCP (IEC 60870-6/TASE.2) data links with utilities and ISOs.
• Strong troubleshooting skills; ability to work independently and support field technicians remotely in real time.
• Experience with platforms such as Power Factors, Inductive Automation Ignition, or similar monitoring and analytics tools preferred.
• Scripting experience (Python) and working knowledge of SQL preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering required; other engineering disciplines considered with demonstrated power systems and controls knowledge.
• EIT or PE (Power or Control Systems) a plus.
• Must be willing to travel occasionally, primarily to SCADA integrator facilities for factory acceptance testing (FAT).

Benefits Package

• 401(k) plan with company matching contribution
• Competitive health, vision, and dental benefits
• Attractive personal time off and company holiday package
• Work-from-home policy
• Salary commensurate with experience

Note

Qualified candidates only. No search firms. Adapture Renewables, Inc. is committed to equal employment opportunity.