The Performance Engineer will optimize performance for battery energy storage systems, develop software for data insights, and ensure compliance with contractual obligations.
Overview
esVolta, LP is a leading developer, owner, and operator of utility-scale energy storage projects across North America. We are at the forefront of the fast-growing battery energy storage market, and our projects are helping to transition the nation’s electric grid to a cleaner and more reliable future. Our storage projects provide major utilities with a multitude of important services including reliable fast-ramping capacity, energy and ancillary grid services including renewable energy integration support.
esVolta is independently owned, and we are among the largest players in the US energy storage sector with about 2.0 GWh of projects in operation or construction, and a 25+ GWh development pipeline.
We are headquartered in Newport Beach, California, with employees in multiple regions across the U.S. Our diverse management team has many decades of experience in the renewable energy, utility, and independent power sectors. esVolta is an innovative industry leader in development, design, construction, financing, and management of utility scale energy storage projects.
At esVolta, every employee makes an impact on the company’s growth and profitability, every day. We have a fast-paced, high-performance and team-oriented culture. We value quality of life and flexibility for our employees and strive to help our team members achieve their career goals.
About The Role
We are seeking individuals to join as Performance Engineer to support the performance optimization and contractual reporting for operational battery energy storage assets throughout the USA.
The Performance Engineer will conduct performance analysis and data interpretation to ensure contractual adherence for GWh of BESS assets; providing expertise to maximize asset performance while optimizing asset value. This position is responsible for ensuring improvement of systems, tools, and being a resource regarding emerging operational best practices with a critical thinking mindset and ability to investigate issues and perform data analysis to provide resolutions.
Core Responsibilities
Quality Assurance
Safety
Skills & Qualifications
Compensation, Location & Benefits
The actual salary and bonus offered will depend on the specific skills and experience of the selected candidate.
$150,00020%
esVolta, LP is a leading developer, owner, and operator of utility-scale energy storage projects across North America. We are at the forefront of the fast-growing battery energy storage market, and our projects are helping to transition the nation’s electric grid to a cleaner and more reliable future. Our storage projects provide major utilities with a multitude of important services including reliable fast-ramping capacity, energy and ancillary grid services including renewable energy integration support.
esVolta is independently owned, and we are among the largest players in the US energy storage sector with about 2.0 GWh of projects in operation or construction, and a 25+ GWh development pipeline.
We are headquartered in Newport Beach, California, with employees in multiple regions across the U.S. Our diverse management team has many decades of experience in the renewable energy, utility, and independent power sectors. esVolta is an innovative industry leader in development, design, construction, financing, and management of utility scale energy storage projects.
At esVolta, every employee makes an impact on the company’s growth and profitability, every day. We have a fast-paced, high-performance and team-oriented culture. We value quality of life and flexibility for our employees and strive to help our team members achieve their career goals.
About The Role
We are seeking individuals to join as Performance Engineer to support the performance optimization and contractual reporting for operational battery energy storage assets throughout the USA.
The Performance Engineer will conduct performance analysis and data interpretation to ensure contractual adherence for GWh of BESS assets; providing expertise to maximize asset performance while optimizing asset value. This position is responsible for ensuring improvement of systems, tools, and being a resource regarding emerging operational best practices with a critical thinking mindset and ability to investigate issues and perform data analysis to provide resolutions.
Core Responsibilities
- Own the operational performance engineering and reporting for esVolta’s deployed BESS, focusing on system performance improvement.
- Evaluate asset performance against contractual commitments during execution and operation phases, and create baseline reports.
- Support the development of technical performance contract language for EPC agreements.
- Develop software to generate actionable insights from performance data using data mining and statistical analysis techniques.
- Conduct computationally efficient exploratory data analysis, anomaly detection, and projection methodologies.
- Develop systems to automatically detect performance degradations and correlate them to specific causes and improvements.
- Create systems for automatic reporting of Energy Storage health and deploy interventions based on management by exception criteria.
- Collaborate with Operations Engineering to identify and resolve technical issues, working closely with the Asset Management Team and equipment suppliers to address system deficiencies or malfunctions.
Quality Assurance
- Consolidate energy production and financial model inputs and analysis to support performance-related aspects of power purchase agreements, EPC contracts, interconnection agreements, and equipment warranties.
- Validate performance against base case financial assumptions.
- Review technical documents and acceptance test results, comparing them to contractual standards.
Safety
- Assist with incident analysis as required.
- Create and assist in the generation of FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis) and HMA (Hazard Mitigation Analysis).
Skills & Qualifications
- 3 years of experience in energy storage.
- ABET accredited bachelor’s degree (Masters preferred) in Engineering and/or data science. Professional Engineering status preferred.
- Highly proficient in software engineering with experience in Python, SQL, data visualization, and artificial intelligence.
- Experience working with Cloud computing services and databases.
- Advanced knowledge of statistical analysis and data mining techniques such as; regression, multilevel regression, forecasting, decision trees, etc.
- Familiarity with SCADA, communication protocols, and controls.
- Proficient at breaking down goals into tangible and actionable work plans.
- Superior communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal.
- Outstanding interpersonal skills, including an ability to maintain calm and effective exchanges by all parties during stressful situations, and executive level reporting that ensures timely action and decision making in time-pressured scenarios.
- Demonstrate strong teamwork orientation, initiative, communication, problem solving, organizational and leadership skills.
- Grit, strong work ethic, and passionate about the energy sector.
- Willingness to be remotely based and ability to travel to project sites as required.
- Willing to travel – estimated 10%.
Compensation, Location & Benefits
The actual salary and bonus offered will depend on the specific skills and experience of the selected candidate.
$150,00020%
- 401k program with 6% match
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Medical, dental and vision care benefits
- 20 vacation days, 5 sick days and 9 observed holidays
Top Skills
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Computing Services
Data Visualization
Python
Scada
SQL
esVolta Newport Beach, California, USA Office
100 Bayview Circle, Newport Beach, California, United States, 92660
Similar Jobs
Fintech • Financial Services
Lead engineering for Enterprise Generative AI Platform, focusing on UI and high-performance systems while mentoring engineers and defining best practices.
Top Skills:
AzureGCPKubernetesNext.JsOpenshiftOpentelemetryPythonReactTypescript
Aerospace • Hardware • Robotics • Software • Manufacturing
The engineer will design and validate high-speed digital compute boards, ensuring performance for onboard AI/ML inference and data processing. Responsibilities include hardware architecture, power delivery networks, and collaboration on software development.
Top Skills:
Current LimitingDdr5EthernetGpuHbmHigh-Speed Digital Pcb DesignHpcPcie Gen 4Pcie Gen 5Power Delivery NetworkPower Management
Artificial Intelligence • Natural Language Processing • Generative AI
As a Research Engineer, you'll enhance model performance in safe coding for accelerators, design RL environments, and collaborate across teams.
Top Skills:
CudaJaxPallasPyTorchRocmTriton
What you need to know about the Los Angeles Tech Scene
Los Angeles is a global leader in entertainment, so it’s no surprise that many of the biggest players in streaming, digital media and game development call the city home. But the city boasts plenty of non-entertainment innovation as well, with tech companies spanning verticals like AI, fintech, e-commerce and biotech. With major universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and the nearby UC Irvine, the city has a steady supply of top-flight tech and engineering talent — not counting the graduates flocking to Los Angeles from across the world to enjoy its beaches, culture and year-round temperate climate.
Key Facts About Los Angeles Tech
- Number of Tech Workers: 375,800; 5.5% of overall workforce (2024 CompTIA survey)
- Major Tech Employers: Snap, Netflix, SpaceX, Disney, Google
- Key Industries: Artificial intelligence, adtech, media, software, game development
- Funding Landscape: $11.6 billion in venture capital funding in 2024 (Pitchbook)
- Notable Investors: Strong Ventures, Fifth Wall, Upfront Ventures, Mucker Capital, Kittyhawk Ventures
- Research Centers and Universities: California Institute of Technology, UCLA, University of Southern California, UC Irvine, Pepperdine, California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy, Center for Quantum Science and Engineering
