High Voltage Power Engineer

Intersect Engineering Role

As part of Intersect's Engineering team, you'll lead the design, coordination, and technical oversight of high-voltage (HV) and medium-voltage (MV) systems across solar, wind, and battery storage projects. You'll drive utility interconnection, optimize substation and transmission designs, and support projects from early development through financing, construction, and commissioning. Beyond project delivery, you'll also provide ongoing technical support to Operations, ensuring assets perform reliably throughout their lifecycle. This is a highly cross-functional role, requiring close collaboration with Development, Permitting, Construction, Finance, Operations, and external EPCs, utilities, and consultants.

The Engineering team ensures Intersect's energy projects are technically sound, cost-optimized, and built for long-term reliability. We develop standards, review designs, and coordinate across functions to bring complex clean energy facilities online at scale. By bridging technical expertise with project execution, we help Intersect accelerate deployment while meeting the highest safety, quality, and performance standards. Joining this team means shaping the backbone of our power infrastructure and driving the interconnection of next-generation energy projects.

What You'll Do

• Lead HV & MV Design
• Drive Utility Interconnection
• Build Standards & Technical Excellence
• Cross-Functional Collaboration

What You'll Bring

• 8-10 years total, including >= 4 years in clean energy project development (interconnection, owner's engineering/IE oversight, EPC management, commercial negotiations) and >= 4 years leading HV substation/collector design (345-500 kV) at a developer, IE/OE, or EPC, delivered ≥3 utility-scale projects through energization; led cross-functional teams and external consultants/contractors.
• Strong understanding of HV transmission, substation equipment, MV distribution, metering, relaying, and SCADA/plant controllers
• Technical expertise in power system design, optimization, and studies
• Experience managing interconnection study processes in ERCOT and CA ISO, with the ability to review and challenge study results
• Advanced knowledge of steady-state modeling tools such as ETAP, SKP, or DigSILENT
• Hands-on experience collaborating with EPCs and utilities during design and construction phases
• Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to drive multiple projects in parallel
• Solid Excel skills and familiarity with system design trade-offs, cost drivers, and construction challenges
• Experience creating specifications and designs for HV transmission and substation equipment, or managing contracting/construction of HV facilities
• Successfully advanced 5+ projects through CA ISO, ERCOT, or SPP interconnection processes, ideally across multiple markets and through implementation (pre-EPC through COD)
• Proven ability to lead preparation and review of interconnection applications and dynamic models for utility-scale projects

Total Rewards

Compensation: $145,000 to $195,000 (total compensation includes base salary + bonus in USD)

Equity: Beyond your salary, you'll receive an Equity Grant, giving you a meaningful stake in our parent company.

Health & wellness: 100% premium coverage for you and your dependents on medical, dental, and vision

Time to recharge: Unlimited PTO, plus two company-wide breaks (Fourth of July & end of year)

Family support: Up to 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, plus 6 additional weeks for birth parents; access to family planning and family care support through Carrot and Maven

Mental health: Free access to Spring Health, including 5 free therapy and psychiatry sessions, plus a Headspace account for mindfulness and meditation through our physical health vendor, Wellhub+

Perks & extras: $150 monthly food stipend, $150 monthly reimbursement for cell phone and internet, pet insurance allowance, full home office setup, free access to UrbanSitter with $625 in quarterly company-paid credits, ActiveHero, and One Medical

Intersect maintains a work environment free from discrimination, one where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling Intersect's commitment to equal employment opportunity. Intersect does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by and consistent with applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. We adhere to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline.