Founding power systems engineer

What we are building

At Elergi we are on a mission to stop the grid being the limit on what the world can build. Almost everything ahead of us runs on electricity: data centres, reindustrialisation, the energy transition. All of it has to reach the grid first, and that is where it stops. In some markets the connection queue holds twice everything already installed. In the Netherlands the queued batteries alone are three times peak load; in Europe's data centre hubs, a project waits seven to ten years for an answer.

Grid connections are about more than just copper. What projects are waiting for is an approval, and someone has to work it out: model the network, run the power flow and stability cases, find where the system fails under load, and size the fix. Manually, one project at a time, while the queue underneath keeps changing and invalidating it. We build agentic AI that does this work on the real physics, across thousands of scenarios, and returns a result an engineer can defend.

We are gathering a team of unusually good people. Between us we have founded companies and taken one from zero to the Nasdaq; mapped and modelled real grids; and worked in consulting, private equity, and AI startups from Stockholm to San Francisco. We like building at a furious pace, and solving problems that are hard.

We are obsessed with our customers, with what would make their work easier and their decisions better. We span several nationalities, we ski, we sing, and we want both the company and its culture to soar.

The role

We are not building this for planners, we are building it with one. You would be the engineer in the room on both sides: deciding what we are willing to claim from a study, and sitting with the people whose name goes on it.

What you'd do

• Own the studies: what we model, which cases we run, and what we are willing to claim from the results
• Work real cases through with planning and connection teams at utilities, TSOs, and developers, in their terms
• Be the planner inside the company: what we build next should be what you wanted on your last project and could not have
• Build and validate grid models against real utility data, and find where ours are wrong before a customer does
• Encode how power flow, short circuit, stability, and contingency studies are actually set up, so agents run them properly

Requirements

• You have run connection or network studies in industry, at a utility, TSO, DSO, or consultancy, and had that work reviewed by people who pushed back
• You have deep expertise within PSS/E, PowerFactory, PSCAD, or equivalent, to the point of knowing where they mislead you
• You can hold a room of senior engineers, and explain a result to the person who has to sign for it
• You write code. Python is enough, and we welcome additional software skills
• You can state plainly where a result should not be trusted, and hold that line

Process

1. 01 Intro, 30 minutes What you have built, what we are building, and whether this is worth more of both our time.
2. 02 Deep dive, 1 hour Your own work in detail. What you actually did, what you would do differently.
3. 03 Technical, 1 hour A real problem of ours, worked through together rather than a puzzle from a book.
4. 04 Final, 1 hour The people you would work with day to day, and the questions you still have for us.

We read every application ourselves. If this is the problem you want to work on, we would be glad to meet you.