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title: 'Power Systems Engineer (USA) at piq-energy'
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# Power Systems Engineer (USA) at piq-energy

- **Company:** piq-energy
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $180k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-04-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/piqenergy/am9icG9zdDqGuNKPwky3PXl445yelEGW

## Job description

## Role

Piq Energy is looking for a talented transmission planning engineer with coding experience to expand our US team! You will design, build, test, and iterate on our core autonomous grid planning product. In addition, you will be managing grid data and models, support our power system analytics team and our users!

## Minimum Requirements

Note: candidates that do not meet the minimum requirements may still be considered for a more junior role.

- Degree in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Power Systems.
- At least 5 years of industry experience in roles at a utility, system operator, engineering consultancy or similar.
- High interconnection fluency (cluster processes, study phases, upgrades/costs, queue dynamics)
- Good understanding of technical standards and regulations related to electricity grid planning, development, operation, and interconnection.
- Hands-on experience with commercial power system analysis tools for steady-state and dynamic studies and plant model building (e.g., PSSE, TARA, PowerWorld).
- Proven ability to manage and maintain detailed electricity network models.
- Working knowledge in Python, particularly for automating grid studies, performing data analysis, and generating reports.
- Self-motivated with the ability to work autonomously and manage time effectively.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills with a strong customer-focused mindset.

Bonus

- Experience with open source power system simulation software (e.g. PowSyBl, pandapower, PyPSA).
- Experience with advanced analysis techniques, such as stability, EMT, or real-time simulations
- Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git), modern software development tools and frameworks, containerization (e.g., Docker), and cloud computing platforms.
- Working knowledge of the CIM (Common Information Model) standard for power systems.

## About piq-energy

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Piq Energy automates technical grid interconnection studies to help renewable energy and large-load developers connect to the electrical grid faster.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture Capital-Backed; Seed stage, raised $5M in July 2026)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (with a second office in Athens, Greece)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Dionysios Stamatiadis (Co-Founder and Chief Engineer); other founders not publicly listed

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Energy Technology, Climate Tech, CleanTech, SaaS
- **Target customers**: B2B – renewable energy developers (solar, wind, battery storage), data center developers, and other large-load infrastructure projects
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Connect to the grid faster with Piq" – enabling developers to bring grid studies in-house for better siting, design, and control of critical decisions.

## Products & Services
- **Piq Grid Study Platform**: An agentic AI software platform that automates power system studies, interconnection analysis, transmission modeling, hosting capacity maps, queue updates, cost-allocation calculations, and withdrawal forecasts. Used by developers to accelerate interconnection applications for solar, wind, BESS, and data centers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total raised $5M (Seed round completed July 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 9Zero, Ascent Energy Ventures, Cisco Foundation, CLAI Ventures, Mobilize AI x Energy (9 total investors)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 63.6% YoY (to ~15-17 employees); LinkedIn followers grew 418.6% yearly; monthly website traffic grew 38.1%; actively hiring across sales, engineering, and customer success.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Agentic AI platform** purpose-built for grid interconnection studies, automating workflows that are typically manual, slow, and costly.
- First-mover advantage in a bottlenecked market (over 2,000 GW of generation and storage waiting in interconnection queues in the US alone).
- Strong domain expertise from founders and engineers with backgrounds in power systems and energy software.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale the team to meet surging demand from renewable and data center developers.
- Expand platform capabilities to support additional grid planning and analysis use cases.
- Build a customer success function to ensure developer projects clear interconnection hurdles efficiently.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven climate tech company tackling one of the biggest bottlenecks to decarbonization and AI infrastructure growth.
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid – employees typically work 2 days a week on-site in San Francisco or Athens.
- **Notable Perks**: Opportunity to work at the intersection of AI, energy, and climate; small, fast-growing team with visible impact; recent LinkedIn posts highlight a supportive, technical culture.

## Sources
1. [piqenergy.com](https://www.piqenergy.com/)
2. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/piq-energy)
3. [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/694544-14)
4. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/piq-energy)

## Other roles at piq-energy

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- [Founding Customer Success Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-customer-success-lead-piq-energy-united-states-hzm8whrf58ac) — United States
- [Full Stack Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/full-stack-software-engineer-piq-energy-san-francisco-5rt6e8ty67qt) — San Francisco, CA
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