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Remote Lead R&D Engineer jobs are open across the U.S. in sectors like biotechnology, advanced manufacturing, defense technology, and consumer electronics, where distributed teams run long-cycle research programs without requiring engineers on-site. Companies hiring remotely right now include Amgen, TE Connectivity, and Penn State University. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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ON.energy is setting the standard for large load interconnection. ON's patented AI UPS™ is a medium-voltage UPS that serves as a firewall, protecting the data center from the grid, and the grid from the data center. With multiple gigawatts currently under construction, we are enabling grid-safe data centers.
The Principal Power Systems Modeling Engineer is ON.energy's technical owner for power system modeling, model validation, and grid performance assessment. This role sets modeling standards, leads high-impact simulation work, and ensures models accurately represent ON.energy hardware, controls, firmware, protection settings, and plant-level operating modes.
The position supports product development, interconnection studies, grid requirements demonstrations, customer projects, and emerging large-load applications. It serves as a key technical bridge across R&D, Controls, Test, Product, Project Engineering, external consultants, customers, utilities, ISOs, and standards organizations.
Key focus areas include EMT and dynamic modeling, ERCOT Model Quality Testing, evolving large-load ride-through requirements, hardware-to-model matching, Hardware-in-the-Loop and real-time simulation, and project-specific modeling support for ON.energy deployments.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Technical Modeling Leadership
- Define modeling standards: Establish ON.energy's modeling philosophy, validation methods, governance processes, and quality expectations across EMT, RMS, transient, steady-state, HIL, and real-time simulation environments.
- Own model lifecycle management: Ensure models remain aligned with released hardware, firmware, controls algorithms, protection settings, plant controls, and project-specific configurations.
- Serve as technical authority: Provide expert judgment on model fidelity, validation evidence, simulation assumptions, and external model submissions.
Project and Product Support
- Lead technical execution: Develop, review, and approve EMT and dynamic models supporting interconnection studies, customer applications, product qualification, and grid requirements.
- Support project modeling: Partner with Project Engineering on study assumptions, equivalent models, SLD representation, equipment settings, operating conditions, and data requirements.
- Assess system performance: Evaluate ride-through behavior, weak-grid performance, harmonics, generator interations, startup behavior, control response, and large-disturbance response.
Validation, HIL, and Hardware Matching
- Ensure hardware-to-model alignment: Confirm models represent inverter behavior, BESS response, EMS functionality, firmware, protection, controls, and fielded product configurations.
- Correlate models with evidence: Compare simulations against lab tests, HIL results, commissioning data, field measurements, disturbance records, and vendor model behavior.
Grid Requirements, Consultant Oversight, and Technical Leadership
- Lead grid requirements modeling: Serve as technical lead for ISO MQT, large-load ride-through evaluations, and evolving grid requirements.
- Oversee external studies: Direct and review work performed by consultants and study partners, ensuring technical quality, traceability, and consistency with ON.energy standards.
- Influence product and engineering direction: Translate modeling insights into recommendations for controls, firmware, hardware design, validation investments, customer applications, and roadmap priorities.
- Mentor and represent: Guide engineers across modeling, controls, test, and project teams, and represent ON.energy in technical discussions with utilities, ISOs, consultants, customers, and industry groups.
EXPERIENCE AND REQUIREMENTS
- Education: Masters Degree or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Experience: 12+ years of advanced power systems modeling experience, including EMT, RMS, dynamic modeling, inverter-based resources, BESS, large loads, or transmission-connected facilities.
- Tools: Expertise with PSCAD, PSSE, PSLF, MATLAB/Simulink, and related simulation platforms; experience with HIL or real-time simulation platforms strongly preferred.
- Grid requirements: Strong understanding of ISO and Utility interconnection requirements, MQT, NERC reliability standards, inverter-based resource requirements, and evolving large-load expectations.
- Technical breadth: Fluency in inverter controls, protection settings, firmware behavior, EMS functions, UPS/BESS architectures, and hardware/software integration.
- Leadership: Demonstrated ability to set technical direction, influence across engineering disciplines, review complex deliverables, communicate with external stakeholders, and create scalable engineering processes.
For US-based roles - What you'll get:
- Competitive salary + annual performance-based bonus eligibility
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Paid time off and company holidays
For Mexico-based roles - What you'll get:
- Competitive salary + annual performance bonus eligibility
- Christmas Bonus (Aguinaldo): 30 days
- Major medical expenses and life insurance
- Paid time off and holidays (per local policy)
For all roles:
- Professional development and growth opportunities
- Opportunity to grow with a mission-driven team shaping the future of clean energy
- Equal Opportunity: ON.energy is committed to equal employment opportunity and to maintaining a work environment free of harassment, discrimination, or retaliation.
- Benefits vary by role and location and are subject to change.
Agency Notice: ON.energy does not accept unsolicited resumes from staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters. Resumes submitted without a fully executed Master Services Agreement (MSA) and a written request from an authorized member of our Talent Acquisition team will be considered the property of ON.energy. No placement fees or compensation will be paid for unsolicited candidate submissions.
ON.energy is setting the standard for large load interconnection. ON's patented AI UPS™ is a medium-voltage UPS that serves as a firewall, protecting the data center from the grid, and the grid from the data center. With multiple gigawatts currently under construction, we are enabling grid-safe data centers.
The Principal Power Systems Modeling Engineer is ON.energy's technical owner for power system modeling, model validation, and grid performance assessment. This role sets modeling standards, leads high-impact simulation work, and ensures models accurately represent ON.energy hardware, controls, firmware, protection settings, and plant-level operating modes.
The position supports product development, interconnection studies, grid requirements demonstrations, customer projects, and emerging large-load applications. It serves as a key technical bridge across R&D, Controls, Test, Product, Project Engineering, external consultants, customers, utilities, ISOs, and standards organizations.
Key focus areas include EMT and dynamic modeling, ERCOT Model Quality Testing, evolving large-load ride-through requirements, hardware-to-model matching, Hardware-in-the-Loop and real-time simulation, and project-specific modeling support for ON.energy deployments.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Technical Modeling Leadership
- Define modeling standards: Establish ON.energy's modeling philosophy, validation methods, governance processes, and quality expectations across EMT, RMS, transient, steady-state, HIL, and real-time simulation environments.
- Own model lifecycle management: Ensure models remain aligned with released hardware, firmware, controls algorithms, protection settings, plant controls, and project-specific configurations.
- Serve as technical authority: Provide expert judgment on model fidelity, validation evidence, simulation assumptions, and external model submissions.
Project and Product Support
- Lead technical execution: Develop, review, and approve EMT and dynamic models supporting interconnection studies, customer applications, product qualification, and grid requirements.
- Support project modeling: Partner with Project Engineering on study assumptions, equivalent models, SLD representation, equipment settings, operating conditions, and data requirements.
- Assess system performance: Evaluate ride-through behavior, weak-grid performance, harmonics, generator interations, startup behavior, control response, and large-disturbance response.
Validation, HIL, and Hardware Matching
- Ensure hardware-to-model alignment: Confirm models represent inverter behavior, BESS response, EMS functionality, firmware, protection, controls, and fielded product configurations.
- Correlate models with evidence: Compare simulations against lab tests, HIL results, commissioning data, field measurements, disturbance records, and vendor model behavior.
Grid Requirements, Consultant Oversight, and Technical Leadership
- Lead grid requirements modeling: Serve as technical lead for ISO MQT, large-load ride-through evaluations, and evolving grid requirements.
- Oversee external studies: Direct and review work performed by consultants and study partners, ensuring technical quality, traceability, and consistency with ON.energy standards.
- Influence product and engineering direction: Translate modeling insights into recommendations for controls, firmware, hardware design, validation investments, customer applications, and roadmap priorities.
- Mentor and represent: Guide engineers across modeling, controls, test, and project teams, and represent ON.energy in technical discussions with utilities, ISOs, consultants, customers, and industry groups.
EXPERIENCE AND REQUIREMENTS
- Education: Masters Degree or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Experience: 12+ years of advanced power systems modeling experience, including EMT, RMS, dynamic modeling, inverter-based resources, BESS, large loads, or transmission-connected facilities.
- Tools: Expertise with PSCAD, PSSE, PSLF, MATLAB/Simulink, and related simulation platforms; experience with HIL or real-time simulation platforms strongly preferred.
- Grid requirements: Strong understanding of ISO and Utility interconnection requirements, MQT, NERC reliability standards, inverter-based resource requirements, and evolving large-load expectations.
- Technical breadth: Fluency in inverter controls, protection settings, firmware behavior, EMS functions, UPS/BESS architectures, and hardware/software integration.
- Leadership: Demonstrated ability to set technical direction, influence across engineering disciplines, review complex deliverables, communicate with external stakeholders, and create scalable engineering processes.
For US-based roles - What you'll get:
- Competitive salary + annual performance-based bonus eligibility
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Paid time off and company holidays
For Mexico-based roles - What you'll get:
- Competitive salary + annual performance bonus eligibility
- Christmas Bonus (Aguinaldo): 30 days
- Major medical expenses and life insurance
- Paid time off and holidays (per local policy)
For all roles:
- Professional development and growth opportunities
- Opportunity to grow with a mission-driven team shaping the future of clean energy
- Equal Opportunity: ON.energy is committed to equal employment opportunity and to maintaining a work environment free of harassment, discrimination, or retaliation.
- Benefits vary by role and location and are subject to change.
Agency Notice: ON.energy does not accept unsolicited resumes from staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters. Resumes submitted without a fully executed Master Services Agreement (MSA) and a written request from an authorized member of our Talent Acquisition team will be considered the property of ON.energy. No placement fees or compensation will be paid for unsolicited candidate submissions.
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Who's Hiring
- Amgen10
- TE Connectivity5
- Penn State University3
- サイネオス・ヘルス3
- Keysight Technologies2
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Electronics & Hardware
- Non-Profit & Social Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote lead R&D engineer jobs.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, materials science, or a related technical field
- 5 or more years of hands-on R&D or product development engineering experience
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams through full development cycles
- Proficiency with CAD, simulation software, or domain-specific lab instrumentation
- Familiarity with design controls, DOE methodologies, or stage-gate development processes
- Patent filing experience or a record of published technical research is frequently preferred
Tips for Your Remote Lead R&D Engineer Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
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Show your async R&D leadership style
Remote employers want proof you can run technical reviews, unblock teammates, and move research milestones forward without in-person check-ins. Include examples of written design reviews, async decision logs, or remote sprint retrospectives you led in your application materials.
Build a remote-ready technical portfolio
Compile documentation of past R&D programs: problem statements, your approach, results, and how you coordinated distributed contributors. Employers hiring remote lead r&d engineers look for this kind of structured written record as a signal you can lead research without physical co-location.
Prepare for distributed team interview formats
Remote lead r&d engineer interviews often include multi-stage written technical assessments, virtual whiteboard sessions, and panel calls with cross-functional stakeholders you'd coordinate with day-to-day. Practice explaining complex research decisions clearly in writing and over video before your first screen.
Remote Lead R&D Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote lead r&d engineer job?
Target remote-first technology companies, distributed defense contractors, and biotech firms with virtual lab coordination models, since these employers are structured to support remote R&D leadership. Remote hiring managers screen heavily for self-directed project management, rigorous written communication, and the ability to run cross-functional technical reviews asynchronously. Demonstrating a history of shipping research milestones without in-person oversight gives you a clear edge.
Which companies hire remote lead r&d engineers?
Companies hiring remote lead r&d engineers right now include Amgen, TE Connectivity, and Penn State University, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These tend to be remote-first technology firms, distributed defense and aerospace contractors, and life sciences companies with geographically spread research teams across sectors like software, hardware, and advanced materials.
Can you get a remote lead r&d engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote lead r&d engineer roles at the entry level are harder to land because employers expect you to drive technical work independently from day one. Smaller remote-first startups and contract research organizations are more open to early-career candidates. Showing documented independent projects, open-source research contributions, or graduate research leadership can substitute meaningfully for formal industry experience.
Do you need a degree for remote lead r&d engineer jobs?
Usually, but the degree requirement depends heavily on the sector. Most remote employers in defense, biotech, and advanced engineering expect at least a bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field, and many prefer a master's or doctorate for lead roles. That said, employers also weigh patent portfolios, published research, demonstrated technical leadership, and a history of delivering complex R&D programs remotely.
Which industries hire the most remote lead r&d engineers?
Remote lead r&d engineer roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Electronics & Hardware, and Non-Profit & Social Services, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors rely on distributed research teams that coordinate prototyping, testing, and technical review cycles virtually, making remote R&D leadership a natural fit for their operating models.
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