Principal Implementation Engineer

Join Power Factors, a leading company in the renewable energy sector, as a Principal Implementation Engineer. In this role, you will lead complex platform implementations for utility-scale solar, wind, and BESS customers. You will serve as the technical and domain authority throughout the customer engagement lifecycle, co-owning end-to-end delivery of our software solutions. You will work remotely with an international team and have the opportunity to make a significant impact in the renewable energy industry.

• Lead end-to-end implementations for utility-scale solar, wind, and BESS customers, serving as the domain authority on platform usage.
• Conduct technical discovery workshops, translating operational requirements into platform configuration, covering KPIs, dashboards, analytics, data onboarding, and integrations.
• Mentor implementation engineers on renewable energy fundamentals, drive methodology improvements, and contribute to continuous improvement of implementation methodology.

• A successful candidate will enjoy working in a purpose-driven organization and thrives in environments that require deep domain expertise, precise technical execution, and trusted advisor-level customer engagement
• The candidate manages multiple concurrent complex engagements, communicates with credibility across both technical and business stakeholders, and is driven by delivering outcomes that matter to the people operating renewable assets
• Demonstrated ability to translate operational requirements into software configuration decisions with ownership and precision
• Strong working knowledge of SQL and data structures; able to independently interrogate datasets and validate platform outputs
• Deep familiarity with renewable energy performance concepts: power curve analysis, performance ratio, availability calculations, energy yield variance, loss categorization, and O&M cost structures
• 8+ years of experience working inside the renewable energy industry, in asset management, performance engineering, O&M, or a comparable technical role at an IPP, asset owner, OEM analytics team, or renewable monitoring organization including several years of PV experience
• Organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple concurrent implementations across a global customer base
• Hands-on operational experience with SCADA systems, electrical drawings/as built drawings, data historians, or APM platforms; able to interrogate time-series data, diagnose performance issues, and validate data quality in production environments
• Strong customer-facing communication skills, including the ability to engage performance engineers and asset managers at the peer level on the details that matter to them
• Technical aptitude for SaaS configuration, APIs, data mapping and transformation, and troubleshooting complex customer environments
• Direct experience with renewable energy APM (Asset Performance Management) platforms
• Domain depth in wind energy: meteorology, power performance, turbine reliability, or turbine operations in addition to PV
• Experience working in a cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience leading complex multi-stakeholder deployments involving large datasets, integrations, and operational change management
• Advanced degree in Engineering, Energy Systems, Data Science, or a related quantitative field
• Experience working in a workshop format and helping to translate data & requirements into actionable designs