Principal Engineer, Interconnection

About the role

This role is the senior technical authority of Origination Engineering. You create the templates, product narrative, and technical directives the team runs every day, and you keep them optimal as utility specifications, products, and investment strategies change. You lead the technical negotiations that affect our projects. And for each new investment strategy, you derive the optimal way to interconnect.

Requirements

• 8+ years in power systems, distribution planning, or DER interconnection engineering
• Demonstrated success reviewing or challenging utility interconnection studies (CESIR or equivalent)
• Professional Engineer (PE) license
• A track record of creating design standards, templates, or engineering processes
• Experience negotiating technical scope with a utility
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related field

Preferred Qualifications (Bonus)

• Con Edison territory experience (SIR, CESIR, distribution design standards)
• Battery storage project exposure (BESS, PCS, switchgear)
• Power systems modeling tools (ETAP, PSS/E, or similar)
• Master's degree in electrical engineering or power systems

Skills and Attributes

• Distribution interconnection mastery: deep working knowledge of DER interconnection studies and screens (NY SIR and CESIR or equivalent), hosting capacity, and IEEE 1547
• Templating and standardization: converts engineering judgment into templates and technical directives that non senior roles can execute correctly every day
• Techical diligence: designs validation plans for a new investment strategy, tests the assumptions, and lands on the optimal interconnection approach
• Technical negotiation: wins scope and policy discussions with utility engineering
• Product and OEM evaluation: qualifies new technology or equipment for compatibility with the process
• Mentorship: raises the Staff Engineer's and Designer's technical bar with structured review
• Standards breadth: working awareness of UL 1741 and UL 9540 listings and NEC 705/706
• Takes ownership and delivers on personal and team commitments
• Learns, iterates, and scales what works