Head of Interconnection & Transmission

About the role

TAR builds fully islanded, off-grid solar and storage campuses that deliver hundreds of megawatts of clean, firm power to AI data centers: no gas, our load never waits in an interconnection queue, and we are on a path to 5 GW deployed by 2028. Islanding is our speed advantage, but when generation exceeds data center load, surplus solar is curtailed; across a GW-scale fleet, that stranded energy is a material revenue stream. As Head of Interconnection & Transmission, you own turning it into revenue: grid interconnection, transmission, market participation, and monetization for our flagship West Texas campus and every campus after it. One hard constraint: the island always works, and export can never become a dependency. This is a senior player-coach seat reporting to the co-founders, based in Austin with regular travel to our West Texas site, ERCOT, and the PUCT.

Responsibilities

• Run ERCOT generation interconnection end to end, from queue entry and the Full Interconnection Study through interconnection agreement and commissioning approvals to commercial operations.
• Lead POI selection and gen-tie development, including routing, easements, land and permitting, engineering coordination, and TSP negotiations on scope, cost, and schedule.
• Define the export architecture with our power systems team, covering Private Use Network (PUN) topology, metering and settlement design, and protection and controls at the POI, engineered so islanded operations never depend on the grid tie.
• Drive ERCOT market entry, including Resource Entity registration, QSE selection and management, ESR registration for storage, settlement, and credit.
• Build the monetization strategy across export scheduling, BESS arbitrage on surplus solar, ancillary services (Reg, RRS, ECRS, Non-Spin) from storage headroom, REC sales, and congestion and basis risk management in West Texas.
• Own the economics of curtailment, weighing grid export against incremental storage and flexible offtake, and make the call per site with a model you build.
• Engage PUCT and ERCOT stakeholder processes to track and shape rulemakings on co-located generation and large loads (SB 6 implementation and successors), protecting our islanded, behind-the-meter model while opening the export path.
• Turn our flagship campus into a repeatable interconnection playbook, from POI screening criteria to templated market onboarding, so every future campus ships with export built in.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in ERCOT interconnection, transmission development, or wholesale market operations, including at least one generation project taken personally from queue entry through commercial operations.
• Deep ERCOT fluency: nodal market design, Planning Guide and Protocols, Private Use Networks, resource registration, and TSP processes.
• Working relationships across ERCOT staff, TSPs, QSEs, and the PUCT.
• Commercial instinct: you can build the revenue model, not just run the study process.
• Storage market participation experience, including ESR registration and ancillary services strategy (strongly preferred).
• Fast and lean operator, comfortable being the entire function on day one and building the team as the fleet scales.

Nice to have

• Experience with co-located load and generation structures or large-load interconnection policy.
• Multi-ISO exposure (WECC, SPP, MISO) for future expansion.
• Power systems engineering background (a PE license is a plus).

Benefits

• Up to $15K relocation bonus
• Unlimited PTO
• Health, Dental, Vision insurance
• $1K monthly stipend for meals