Remote Performance Engineer Jobs
Remote performance engineer jobs are open across the U.S. in software, fintech, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise SaaS, at companies ranging from remote-first startups to large distributed engineering teams. Employers hiring remotely right now include NVIDIA, Ameresco, and Westinghouse Electric Company. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Requisition ID: 181780
Job Level: Mid Level
Home District/Group: Kiewit Power Engineering
Department: Design Engineering
Market: Power
Employment Type: Full Time
Position Overview
Our Kiewit Engineering Group is seeking a Lead Thermal Performance Engineer who has experience in Power Plant Performance analysis. This individual will model cycles and assist design of cycles along with testing assistance of the cycle in the form of creating correction curve and supporting calculations reviews, collect data, calculate test results, and communicate results with various teams involved. Occasional travel will be required from project sites to the main office for accurate testing.
District Overview
Kiewit Engineering Group, Inc is a full-service consulting and engineering firm serving the infrastructure and engineering markets. Our combined staff of more than 1,300 engineers and design professionals have expertise that spans all major engineering disciplines to serve transportation, power, water/wastewater, mining, building, and oil, gas & chemical markets. Backed by 130 years of construction experience, our construction-driven engineering focuses on constructability and safety in the earliest phases of projects to ensure on-time and on-budget project delivery.
Our rapidly growing Power district, which includes structural, civil, piping, mechanical, process, process safety, electrical, instrument and control disciplines, is a multi-faceted division of Kiewit with best-in-class technical expertise focused on the EPC delivery model for power facilities. We offer a variety of engineering services, including owner's engineering, project development, detailed engineering and design, construction management and plant services. Our engineering teams bring power projects to life across North America in the following areas:
- Gas-fired generation
- Power delivery
- Environmental retrofits
- Renewables and new technology
- Water/wastewater
Location
Responsibilities
- Develop power plant heat balances to support proposal efforts, plant guarantees, risk and liability calculations as well as project team detailed design efforts, and performance test correction curves.
- Prepare and assess Plant Thermal Performance development and design using plant thermal performance modeling and estimating software tools like Ebsilon software.
- Coordinate with equipment vendors for thermal sizing and performance evaluations, including combustion turbine, heat recovery steam generator, steam turbine, steam surface condenser, wet cooling tower, air-cooled condenser, and pump vendors.
- Assist with development of thermal performance test procedures based on project requirements.
- Support execution of performance tests in the field.
- Assist calculations to determine plant emission guarantees and plant start-up times guarantees.
- Assist combined cycle power plant startup curves preparations.
- Perform non-compressible and compressible fluid flow calculations including pressure drop, choked flow, bypass valve sizing.
Qualifications
- 2-10+ years’ experience in power plant performance analysis and performance modeling and/or performance testing using ASME Performance Test Codes.
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (or other engineering discipline with strong thermodynamic component) from an ABET accredited four-year college or university program.
- Proficiency in thermodynamics, thermodynamic cycles, and fluid mechanics.
- Understanding of power plant equipment operation from a thermodynamic perspective.
- Experience with industrial instrumentation and data acquisition systems. Familiarity with distributed control systems a plus.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills. Experience in development of XLL add ins a plus.
- Familiarity and working knowledge of heat balance calculation software (Ebsilon/GateCycle/Thermoflex or similar in-house software) a plus.
- Highly self-motivated, with a demonstrated passion for excellence and taking initiative.
- Strong work ethic, willing to do what it takes to get the job done right the first time.
- Demonstrated commitment to ethics and integrity.
- Passion for safety, with the ability to help us ensure that nobody gets hurt.
- Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Team player with the ability to work independently to meet deadlines, goals and objectives.
- Strong organization, time management, and attention to detail.
- This position may require approximately 20%-40% travel in 1-4 week intervals to project sites across North America. Travel percentage is highly dependent on project schedules
#LI-PC1
Other Requirements:
- Regular, reliable attendance
- Work productively and meet deadlines timely
- Communicate and interact effectively and professionally with supervisors, employees, and others individually or in a team environment.
- Perform work safely and effectively. Understand and follow oral and written instructions, including warning signs, equipment use, and other policies.
- Work during normal operating hours to organize and complete work within given deadlines. Work overtime and weekends as required.
- May work at various different locations and conditions may vary.
We offer our fulltime staff employees a comprehensive benefits package that’s among the best in our industry, including top-tier medical, dental and vision plans covering eligible employees and dependents, voluntary wellness and employee assistance programs, life insurance, disability, retirement plans with matching, and generous paid time off.
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.
Requisition ID: 181780
Job Level: Mid Level
Home District/Group: Kiewit Power Engineering
Department: Design Engineering
Market: Power
Employment Type: Full Time
Position Overview
Our Kiewit Engineering Group is seeking a Lead Thermal Performance Engineer who has experience in Power Plant Performance analysis. This individual will model cycles and assist design of cycles along with testing assistance of the cycle in the form of creating correction curve and supporting calculations reviews, collect data, calculate test results, and communicate results with various teams involved. Occasional travel will be required from project sites to the main office for accurate testing.
District Overview
Kiewit Engineering Group, Inc is a full-service consulting and engineering firm serving the infrastructure and engineering markets. Our combined staff of more than 1,300 engineers and design professionals have expertise that spans all major engineering disciplines to serve transportation, power, water/wastewater, mining, building, and oil, gas & chemical markets. Backed by 130 years of construction experience, our construction-driven engineering focuses on constructability and safety in the earliest phases of projects to ensure on-time and on-budget project delivery.
Our rapidly growing Power district, which includes structural, civil, piping, mechanical, process, process safety, electrical, instrument and control disciplines, is a multi-faceted division of Kiewit with best-in-class technical expertise focused on the EPC delivery model for power facilities. We offer a variety of engineering services, including owner's engineering, project development, detailed engineering and design, construction management and plant services. Our engineering teams bring power projects to life across North America in the following areas:
- Gas-fired generation
- Power delivery
- Environmental retrofits
- Renewables and new technology
- Water/wastewater
Location
Responsibilities
- Develop power plant heat balances to support proposal efforts, plant guarantees, risk and liability calculations as well as project team detailed design efforts, and performance test correction curves.
- Prepare and assess Plant Thermal Performance development and design using plant thermal performance modeling and estimating software tools like Ebsilon software.
- Coordinate with equipment vendors for thermal sizing and performance evaluations, including combustion turbine, heat recovery steam generator, steam turbine, steam surface condenser, wet cooling tower, air-cooled condenser, and pump vendors.
- Assist with development of thermal performance test procedures based on project requirements.
- Support execution of performance tests in the field.
- Assist calculations to determine plant emission guarantees and plant start-up times guarantees.
- Assist combined cycle power plant startup curves preparations.
- Perform non-compressible and compressible fluid flow calculations including pressure drop, choked flow, bypass valve sizing.
Qualifications
- 2-10+ years’ experience in power plant performance analysis and performance modeling and/or performance testing using ASME Performance Test Codes.
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (or other engineering discipline with strong thermodynamic component) from an ABET accredited four-year college or university program.
- Proficiency in thermodynamics, thermodynamic cycles, and fluid mechanics.
- Understanding of power plant equipment operation from a thermodynamic perspective.
- Experience with industrial instrumentation and data acquisition systems. Familiarity with distributed control systems a plus.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills. Experience in development of XLL add ins a plus.
- Familiarity and working knowledge of heat balance calculation software (Ebsilon/GateCycle/Thermoflex or similar in-house software) a plus.
- Highly self-motivated, with a demonstrated passion for excellence and taking initiative.
- Strong work ethic, willing to do what it takes to get the job done right the first time.
- Demonstrated commitment to ethics and integrity.
- Passion for safety, with the ability to help us ensure that nobody gets hurt.
- Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Team player with the ability to work independently to meet deadlines, goals and objectives.
- Strong organization, time management, and attention to detail.
- This position may require approximately 20%-40% travel in 1-4 week intervals to project sites across North America. Travel percentage is highly dependent on project schedules
#LI-PC1
Other Requirements:
- Regular, reliable attendance
- Work productively and meet deadlines timely
- Communicate and interact effectively and professionally with supervisors, employees, and others individually or in a team environment.
- Perform work safely and effectively. Understand and follow oral and written instructions, including warning signs, equipment use, and other policies.
- Work during normal operating hours to organize and complete work within given deadlines. Work overtime and weekends as required.
- May work at various different locations and conditions may vary.
We offer our fulltime staff employees a comprehensive benefits package that’s among the best in our industry, including top-tier medical, dental and vision plans covering eligible employees and dependents, voluntary wellness and employee assistance programs, life insurance, disability, retirement plans with matching, and generous paid time off.
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Law & Legal Services
- Automotive
- Consulting & Professional Services
- Renewable Energy
- Science & Research
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote performance engineer jobs.
- Experience with load testing tools such as JMeter, Gatling, Locust, or k6
- Proficiency in at least one systems or scripting language such as Java, Python, or Go
- Hands-on experience with APM and observability platforms such as Datadog, Dynatrace, or New Relic
- Ability to analyze profiling data, flame graphs, and distributed traces to identify bottlenecks
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and integrating performance tests into automated build workflows
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Remote Performance Engineer Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote performance engineer openings from across the U.S. in one place. Check it regularly so you can find roles that match your stack and apply directly before postings fill.
Build a public performance testing portfolio
Remote hiring managers can't watch you work, so your GitHub or portfolio site does the talking. Publish load test scripts, bottleneck analyses, or before-and-after latency results that show you can diagnose and fix real performance problems independently.
Signal async fluency in your application materials
Remote performance engineer teams communicate through written documentation, not hallway conversations. Use your cover letter and resume to show you write clearly about technical findings, since employers screen for candidates who can surface issues and propose fixes without needing a meeting.
Match your tools to the remote employer's stack
Remote job descriptions name specific observability and testing tools: Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, k6, Gatling, or Locust. Call out the tools you've used in context, not just as a list, so hiring managers can see you've applied them on real workloads.
Remote Performance Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote performance engineer job?
Target remote-first tech companies, cloud platforms, and distributed SaaS teams, since those employers are most likely to hire performance engineers without requiring on-site presence. Remote hiring managers screen heavily for self-direction, clear async written communication, and hands-on proficiency with tools like k6, Gatling, JMeter, or Datadog. A GitHub portfolio with load testing scripts, benchmark reports, or tuning case studies gives you a concrete edge over candidates who only list skills.
Which companies hire remote performance engineers?
Remote performance engineer roles are posted by NVIDIA, Ameresco, and Westinghouse Electric Company and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. These tend to be remote-first technology firms, cloud infrastructure companies, and distributed fintech or enterprise SaaS teams that run engineering entirely across time zones.
Can you get a remote performance engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level performance engineer roles are harder to land because employers expect you to troubleshoot and iterate independently from day one. Smaller remote-first SaaS companies and startups are the most likely to hire junior candidates. Showing open-source contributions, a public performance testing project, or documented benchmark results from a personal or academic project can substitute for professional history and open the door.
Do you need a degree for remote performance engineer jobs?
Not always. Remote employers in this field weigh demonstrated skills, measurable results, and tool proficiency at least as heavily as a formal degree. Candidates who can show real load testing work, performance tuning outcomes, or observability tool expertise are competitive even without a computer science credential. A degree in a technical field helps with larger enterprise employers, but it rarely overrides a strong practical portfolio.
Which industries hire the most remote performance engineers?
The sectors hiring the most remote performance engineers are Law & Legal Services, Automotive, and Consulting & Professional Services, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. These industries rely on distributed engineering teams that need performance engineers who can collaborate entirely through async tools and documentation.
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