Clean Energy Senior Electrical Engineer - Innovation Team

About this role

As a Sr Electrical Engineer on Intersect's Innovation Execution team, you'll bridge the gap between emerging clean energy technologies and real-world utility-scale project delivery. You'll take on ambiguous, high-impact technical challenges across utility-scale solar PV, battery energy storage systems (BESS), and next-generation power infrastructure, translating novel concepts into safe, bankable, and constructible designs. Working closely with internal stakeholders, OEMs, and EPC partners, you'll own electrical engineering solutions from initial feasibility and system architecture through field execution.

You'll bring strong foundational electrical engineering instincts, practical field awareness, and the intellectual agility to ramp up quickly on unfamiliar technical topics. 

Team overview

This team plays a critical role in advancing Intersect's mission to accelerate the clean energy transition. The Innovation Execution team is chartered with getting projects online faster, at lower LCOE, and with higher reliability. We do this by taking new technologies, creative system architectures, and novel infrastructure concepts and turning them into reality at utility scale. Joining this team means operating at the frontier of clean energy and data center power infrastructure, where curiosity, creative problem-solving, and practical engineering rigor directly shape Intersect's next generation of assets.

What you'll do

Architect and De-Risk Next-Generation Electrical Systems

• Lead technical diligence on emerging technologies and OEM equipment (inverters, PCS, PV modules, trackers, MV switchgear, transformers). Evaluate and diligence based on performance claims, safety, and bankability, and assess market readiness from a TRL and MRL perspective.

• Run fast, practical techno-economic analyses of new concepts against Intersect’s baseline designs. Quantify the impact on capex, LCOE, schedule, and reliability so leadership can make clear go/no-go decisions.

• Challenge conventional design practices by asking “why not?” Find architecture changes that shorten time to COD, lower installed cost, or enable larger, more reliable projects.

Turn Promising Concepts into Real Projects

• Take ideas that pass diligence from concept to field. Define the technical scope and requirements well enough for EPCs and Owner’s Engineers to carry out the detailed design.

• Close the remaining technical and commercial gaps through targeted analysis, factory visits, OEM engagement, and pilot or demonstration deployments, moving technologies up the readiness curve toward utility-scale deployment.

• Stay close to the work during construction and energization, through site visits and field walkdowns, to confirm new solutions perform as intended. Capture lessons learned so they can scale across the portfolio.

Lead Creative Problem-Solving and Cross-Functional Alignment

• Manage a portfolio of innovation efforts running in parallel, from early diligence through field deployment. Prioritize ruthlessly and keep each one moving at the right pace for its stage.

• Act as the technical bridge between Business Development and Core Engineering. Partner with Development, Procurement, Construction, and Operations to turn opportunities into practical solutions, and make clear, data-backed cases for when an innovation is worth adopting.

• Work directly with OEMs, EPCs, and technology partners to diligence their products, shape their roadmaps, troubleshoot integration issues, and bring new solutions to market faster.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering; Professional Engineer (PE) license or advanced degree is a plus.

• 6+ years of electrical engineering experience in utility-scale power generation, with practical exposure to taking PV or BESS projects from concept through construction.

• Hands-on experience leading technical diligence on new technologies or OEM equipment, including comfort assessing technology and manufacturing readiness (TRL/MRL) and pressure-testing vendor claims.

• Strong electrical fundamentals (LV/MV power distribution, AC/DC systems, protection, grounding, and power electronics) and working knowledge of relevant codes and standards (NEC, NESC, IEEE, UL 9540/9540A). You know enough to spot the risks without needing to own every calculation.

• Ability to run quick, decision-grade techno-economic analysis that ties technical choices to capex, LCOE, schedule, and reliability. Familiarity with tools like PVsyst, ETAP, or SKM is a plus.

• Proven ability to manage multiple projects in parallel at different stages, prioritize ruthlessly, and keep each one moving.

• A fast learner and creative problem-solver who ramps up quickly on unfamiliar technical topics and is comfortable making practical calls with incomplete information.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to build alignment across Business Development, Engineering, Construction, OEMs, and EPCs without formal authority.

• Commitment to collaborative execution and technical excellence, aligned with Intersect’s core values of Equity, Humility, Authenticity, Long-run Value, and People Come First.