Chief of Engineering
Smart Wires Inc.Highlight
Summary
About the Role
About You
- BS or SB in an engineering or scientific discipline.
- Minimum of 15 years of progressively growing experience with a track-record of innovation in the energy or industrial sector.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience leading technical teams.
- Experience leading product development or sustaining engineering teams.
- Demonstrated excellence in executing complex technical programs.
- Outstanding team player comfortable with open-ended problems in a fast-paced environment.
- Exceptional ability to present business and technical information to a broad audience.
- MS or PhD in an engineering or scientific discipline.
- Experience leading engineering teams servicing a safety-critical application.
- Experience with MW-class power electronics.
- Experience with transmission grid products.
- Experience working collaboratively with a Technical Advisory Board (TAB).
Benefits
- Unlimited annual leave.
- Paid volunteer time off to give back to your community.
- Eighteen weeks of paid parental leave.
- Competitive total compensation packages including salary, bonus, and equity.
Smart Wires is the world’s leading grid enhancing technology and services provider. We help electric utilities to unlock capacity and solve their critical grid issues, using our solutions to create a more flexible, reliable and affordable grid. This enables a faster, more cost-efficient path to meet growing electricity demand with clean energy generation, at lowest cost to consumers. Headquartered in the Research Triangle of North Carolina, Smart Wires has a global workforce of passionate and visionary industry-leading experts spread across four continents, who work every day to transform grids globally. In collaboration with our customers and partners, we’ve unlocked over 3.5 Gigawatts capacity—enough to power over 2.5 million homes—supporting the faster integration of clean energy and new demand, enhancing security of supply and delivering cost savings to consumers. Together, we are reimagining the grid for net zero.