Solar Performance Engineer

~ Founded in 2013, NEXTracker operates as an independent subsidiary of Flex, a leading Sketch-to-Scale™ solutions company that designs and builds intelligent products for a connected world. ~

Delivering smart PV and storage solutions on close to 400 solar power plants across five continents, with nine global offices, NEXTracker is an established leader in the ground mount solar and storage industries, having earned the #1 market share leadership position for solar trackers world-wide for two consecutive years (Greentech Media, IHS Markit, 2016 & 2017).

NEXTracker designs and manufactures industry-leading solar and storage systems that dramatically improve and scale the economics of renewable energy. Applications and customers range from behind the meter solar farms with Fortune 500 companies like PepsiCo and L’Oreal to massive utility-scale power plants across domestic and international markets, and a portfolio of energy storage solutions. Join a market leader that values our talent, service excellence and innovation as core to our business growth and culture. With one of the most experienced management teams in solar, category-leading products, and a fortified technology roadmap, NEXTracker is making a dramatic impact on the power plant of the future.

Position Overview

The Solar Performance Engineer will be based in Fremont, CA. You will use various PV performance analysis and modeling methods prevalent in the industry for understanding NEXTracker’s smart control system’s behavior. You will also explore and develop new tracking & modeling methods required for improving energy yield of Single Axis Tracker (SAT) systems.

Responsibilities

Here is a glimpse of what you’ll do:

• Actively monitor and analyze solar resource data, PV performance data, and operations data from PV plants
• Regularly compare performance data from simulations with field empirical data
• Work with top Independent Engineering teams across world, to validate benefits of NEXTracker’s energy modeling tools
• Develop and use physics based & empirical models of PV power plants
• Carry out performance guarantees, and financial true-ups
• Develop methods to optimize empirical models across various inputs and outputs

Qualifications

Here is some of what you’ll need (required):

• At least 4 years of PV Performance Engineering experience
• Strong knowledge of Photovoltaic (PV) devices, system design, technology, and its performance characteristics
• Experienced with PVSyst, SAM, PV-LIB, and other PV software/models
• Experienced with handling large data sets, and analysis tools in Python & Matlab
• Proven ability to prepare technical reports and presentations
• Excellent communication & presentation skills, self-motivated

We are looking for someone who demonstrates:

• Intense collaboration
• Passionate customer focus
• Thoughtful, fast, disciplined execution
• Tenacious commitment to continuous improvement
• Relentless drive to win

Compensation

Here are a few examples of what you’ll get for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision
• Life Insurance
• Matching 401K
• PTO
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee discounts at local retailers

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