Senior Electrical Performance Engineer - Hybrid + Equity

Nexamp; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) employer-match

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off

Commuter benefits

Cell phone reimbursement

Job summary

Nexamp is seeking a Senior Electrical Performance Engineer to deepen technical analysis of Nexamp's PV and BESS assets, improve protection, controls, and protection coordination, and drive reliability improvements across a growing distributed and utility-scale portfolio.

The role is hybrid and based in Nexamp offices such as Lawrence, Boston, New York City, Chicago, or Washington, DC, reporting to the Director, Performance Engineering.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 7+ years of electrical engineering experience.
• 2+ years of experience in solar and protection relays (breakers, reclosers, power logic controllers, etc.).
• Professional Engineer license is a plus.
• Demonstrated experience in effectively communicating information, ideas, and perspectives with people inside and beyond your organization.
• Experience in showcasing initiative to make improvements to current work, processes, products, and services across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Own plant protection, controls, and compliance strategy by reviewing and coordinating protection settings across OCPDs, relays, inverters, and plant controllers; managing required setting changes with third-party vendors; and securing utility approvals to ensure safe, reliable operation.
• Engage directly with utilities on complex grid-interaction issues related to protection schemes, relay settings, and plant control behavior; diagnose misalignment between plant and utility protection philosophies; and negotiate technically sound solutions that optimize availability and interconnection compliance.
• Improve system reliability and energy performance by evaluating and optimizing protection schemes, breaker coordination, relay timing, circuit configurations, and inverter control functions (Volt/VAR, Volt/Watt, frequency-watt, ramp rates, ride-through).
• Partner with Engineering to improve design standards and fleet consistency, including relay database templates, equipment specifications, standard drawings, and protection philosophies, with a focus on maintainability, operability, and lifecycle cost.
• Lead data-driven reliability and loss reduction efforts by analyzing inverter logs, relay events, EMS dispatch data, and waveform captures; conducting root-cause and 8D investigations; quantifying production and financial impacts; and recommending corrective actions, upgrades, or repowering strategies.
• Own fleetwide monitoring and diagnostics strategy by refining alert thresholds, logic, and escalation workflows to reduce false positives, minimize alert fatigue, and accelerate incident response.
• Develop analytical models, diagnostic frameworks, and performance standards for Nexamp's PV and BESS fleet, integrating power systems engineering with data analytics to identify constraints and improvement opportunities.
• Influence organizational capability and decision-making by representing Performance Engineering in cross-functional initiatives, providing actionable feedback to development and engineering teams on design and procurement decisions, and mentoring junior analysts through training and documented best practices.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Root-cause analysis

Data analysis

Communication skills

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Nexamp is seeking a Senior Electrical Performance Engineer to deepen technical analysis of Nexamp's PV and BESS assets, improve protection, controls, and protection coordination, and drive reliability improvements across a growing distributed and utility-scale portfolio.

The role is hybrid and based in Nexamp offices such as Lawrence, Boston, New York City, Chicago, or Washington, DC, reporting to the Director, Performance Engineering.