Senior Manager, Advanced Grid and Controls Solutions

Location: Hybrid role based in Louisville, Colorado, United States

Salary: $173,000–$216,750 per year, plus annual bonus

Company

hirify.global is a US-based global power company developing renewable energy, battery storage, hybrid, and microgrid solutions across 12 countries.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team covering grid integration, advanced controls, power electronics, EMT analysis, and microgrids.
• Set the technical roadmap, priorities, operating model, resource plan, engineering methods, and risk-management practices.
• Direct control philosophies, functional requirements, control architectures, communications interfaces, and system-integration strategies for renewable, storage, hybrid, and microgrid applications.
• Evaluate inverter, plant-controller, EMS, microgrid-controller, and power-electronics technologies, including interoperability, model quality, maturity, and deployment readiness.
• Oversee PSCAD-based EMT studies, CHIL and PHIL test programs, commissioning, acceptance testing, witness testing, and field troubleshooting.
• Coordinate with engineering, development, operations, interconnection, SCADA, OEMs, integrators, utilities, consultants, and customers, and convert operational findings into improved standards and project practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, power systems engineering, controls engineering, or a closely related field; an advanced degree is strongly preferred.
• Substantial engineering experience in utility-scale renewable generation, battery energy storage, inverter-based resources, plant controls, microgrids, or adjacent power-system applications.
• Demonstrated people-management experience covering work planning, prioritization, coaching, performance management, and technical-professional development.
• Strong knowledge of renewable and battery-storage plant controls, inverter controls, grid-forming technology, plant power controllers, energy-management systems, and grid-integration fundamentals.
• Experience with technology evaluation, technical diligence, model review, test planning, results interpretation, and translating findings into project or equipment decisions.
• Working knowledge of EMT analysis and PSCAD-based studies, including reviewing methods, assumptions, model behavior, results, and tuning recommendations.
• Experience supporting commissioning, witness testing, field troubleshooting, event analysis, or operations response for complex power and controls systems.
• Strong organization and project-management skills, including management of concurrent initiatives and unplanned technical priorities.
• Ability to lead through influence across multidisciplinary, geographically distributed teams and external partners, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or PhD in power systems, controls, power electronics, or a related discipline.
• Hands-on experience with grid-forming inverters, hybrid plants, weak-grid integration, islanded systems, black start, or mission-critical-load microgrids.
• Experience with CHIL and PHIL testbeds, real-time digital simulators, EMT testbenches, and interface or sequence validation frameworks.
• Familiarity with PSSE, PSLF, PowerFactory, MATLAB/Simulink, Python, or related power-system and data-analysis tools.
• Knowledge of IEEE 2800, NERC reliability standards for inverter-based resources, regional grid codes, and utility model and testing expectations.
• Experience with inverter, PPC, EMS, SCADA, microgrid-controller, turbine-generator, or power-electronics OEMs and system integrators.
• Experience developing technical specifications, statements of work, acceptance criteria, design-basis documents, and vendor-evaluation frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in a hybrid work arrangement.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, 401(k) eligibility, and paid time off including vacation, sick leave, and parental leave.
• Annual bonus in addition to base salary; the position is at-will.
• Equal-opportunity workplace focused on diversity, inclusion, integrity, and sustainability.
• Employment requires completion of Form I-9 work-authorization verification through E-Verify.

Hiring process

• Apply through the application link by submitting the requested information.
• Application deadline: December 4, 2026.