BrightNight
Website:
brightnightpower.com
Job details:
Company Overview
BrightNight is a high-growth renewable power developer and Independent Power Producer (IPP) with a 30-gigawatt portfolio spanning 20 U.S. states. The company develops innovative, dispatchable, and hybrid energy solutions that deliver reliable, cost-efficient renewable power to utilities, data centers, and other high-demand customers across fast-growing energy markets. Supported by strong financial partners, including Goldman Sachs, experienced industry leadership, and proprietary capabilities such as PowerAlpha®, BrightNight is scaling rapidly while differentiating itself through an AI-enabled, automation-driven approach to project development and operations. For candidates, BrightNight offers the opportunity to take on meaningful responsibility, work directly with experienced industry leaders, and grow alongside a company with real momentum and ambitious plans for the future. We’re building a company where intelligence is built in, not bolted on. It is an opportunity to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment where smart, curious people can make an outsized impact, grow quickly, and help shape the future of reliable clean energy
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, validate, and maintain detailed PSCAD models for utility-scale solar, battery energy storage systems (BESS), and hybrid power plants.
- Perform EMT studies to evaluate system performance under faults, switching events, control interactions, harmonic conditions, transient overvoltages, and other dynamic disturbances.
- Support generator interconnection and transmission planning activities through technical analysis associated with system impact studies, facilities studies, and grid compliance assessments using PSCAD, PSS®E, TARA, PowerWorld, and related tools.
- Analyze inverter-based resource performance, including fault ride-through capability, voltage and frequency response, control stability, and plant-level interactions.
- Coordinate with OEMs, consultants, utilities, and internal stakeholders to obtain, review, parameterize, validate, and troubleshoot vendor-supplied models.
- Compare and reconcile PSCAD results with RMS simulation platforms such as PSS®E to support broader transmission and interconnection studies.
- Identify technical risks, communicate findings clearly, and recommend mitigation strategies that improve project bankability, constructability, reliability, and grid performance.
- Prepare technical reports, study documentation, presentations, and engineering memoranda for internal and external stakeholders.
- Contribute to internal modeling standards, quality assurance processes, study methodologies, and automation initiatives that improve efficiency and consistency.
- Collaborate across development, transmission, engineering, and project delivery teams to support BrightNight's growing project portfolio and operating fleet.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline with a focus on power systems.
- Four or more years of experience performing power system studies, including significant hands-on experience using PSCAD for EMT simulations.
- Strong understanding of power systems analysis, inverter-based resources, and transmission-connected renewable generation.
- Experience developing, validating, and troubleshooting PSCAD models for solar, energy storage, hybrid plants, grid-connected converters, or related equipment.
- Demonstrated experience performing EMT studies involving faults, control interactions, transient overvoltages, switching events, harmonics, and grid compliance assessments.
- Familiarity with utility, ISO/RTO, transmission owner, and generator interconnection requirements within the United States.
- Working knowledge of complementary power system analysis tools such as PSS®E, PowerWorld, ETAP, or similar platforms.
- Strong technical writing, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work across a fast-moving project portfolio.
- Experience with model validation, version control, and vendor model management practices.
Why BrightNight
At BrightNight, you'll have the opportunity to work on some of the most innovative renewable energy and energy storage projects in the industry. We offer a collaborative, high-performance environment where talented individuals can make a meaningful impact, take ownership of important work, and grow alongside a rapidly expanding organization that is shaping the future of clean energy.
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