Hiring Entity: FlexEnergi, a Subsidiary of Accurant International
Location: Remote
Status: Exempt
Salary Range: $100,000 - $150,000 DOE
Job Title: Sr. Solutions Engineer
We are seeking a highly analytical and technically strong Utility Solutions Architect to lead the technical evaluation and response development for utility RFPs and energy market opportunities. This role bridges product, engineering, delivery, and sales by translating complex utility requirements into simulation-backed technical proposals.
The ideal candidate has deep experience in demand response, VPPs, DER aggregation of residential and commercial assets, energy market optimization and is comfortable modeling capacity, and performance risk.
Some travel will be required.
Key Responsibilities
🔹 Technical Leadership
- Analyze RFPs and identify technical, compliance, and performance requirements
- Develop detailed technical response narratives
- Own architecture diagrams, system workflows, telemetry, and M&V sections
- Ensure alignment with market rules and baseline methodologies
🔹 Capacity & Performance Modeling
- Run simulations to estimate:
- Available MW capacity 8,760 hours per year
- Dispatch performance
- Revenue potential (best case / worst case)
- Along with partner manager, model enrollment scenarios (residential, various categories of C&I)
- Support firm vs non-firm dispatch modeling
🔹 Market & Compliance Analysis
- Interpret ISO/RTO rules around M&V and ISO DA/RT pricing
- Model X-in-Y baselines, day-of adjustments, and M&V impacts
- Evaluate performance risk under different weather and load scenarios
🔹 Solution Architecture
- Understand utility-specific systems and interactions with each
- Work with engineering to validate feasibility
🔹 Commercial Support
- Quantify:
- Capacity guarantees
- Performance risk
- Expected revenue
- Support pricing strategy with simulation-backed assumptions
- Participate in customer technical workshops and presentations
Required Qualifications
- A Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in a technical/quantitative field
- 5–10+ years in energy markets, DER aggregation, demand response, or VPPs
- Strong understanding of:
- Utility RFP processes
- ISO/RTO market structures
- Demand response program design
- M&V methodologies
- Technical understanding of overall electric operations systems, including electric power systems, distribution automation, and distributed control systems and communications
- Experience running simulations (Python, MATLAB, R, or energy modeling tools)
- Ability to read tariffs and market manuals and translate them into technical requirements
- Strong technical writing skills in English (ability to produce 40+ page RFP responses with the help of AI tools)
About Us
FlexEnergi is solving some of the toughest challenges facing today’s utilities. With rising data center demand, more renewables, and increasing extreme weather, utilities need reliable capacity that can be deployed fast and affordably. Our innovative business model delivers the lowest-cost, fastest to-deploy capacity on the market. We’re a small, nimble, and innovative company that moves quickly, experiments boldly, and rethinks how the grid can improve quickly. Joining FlexEnergi means helping build technology that strengthens reliability, resilience, and sustainability at scale. FlexEnergi proudly operates as part of the Accurant International portfolio of companies.
Accurant International offers innovative solutions to tackle pressing climate and energy technology challenges through our portfolio companies. Our investments in fields ranging from renewable energy, smart grid systems, electric vehicles, optimizing energy usage in buildings, and other areas has allowed our alliance to lead the way in transforming various fields.
Culture
Privately owned, friendly and family-oriented company with growth and advancement opportunities and learning new advanced technologies. We are a customer focused and employee centered organization. Innovation is the core of our business philosophy.
It is the policy of FlexEnergi not to discriminate against any applicant for employment, or any employee because of age, color, sex, disability, national origin, race, religion, or veteran status.
· Medical insurance
· Vision insurance
· Dental insurance
· Employer paid life insurance, AD&D, and disability insurance
· Competitive 401(k) match – up to 6%
· Performance based bonus
· Potential profit sharing
· Paid time off, holidays and other paid leave
