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Remote Staff R&D Engineer jobs are in active demand across the U.S., with remote-first firms and distributed engineering teams hiring for roles in sectors like biotech, defense technology, semiconductors, and advanced software. Companies bringing on remote staff r&d engineers 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 staff R&D engineer jobs.
- Advanced degree in electrical engineering, materials science, mechanical engineering, or a related field
- Demonstrated experience leading research projects from concept through prototype or production release
- Proficiency with simulation and modeling tools such as MATLAB, COMSOL, or ANSYS
- Track history of contributing to patents, publications, or proprietary process development
- Experience with design of experiments methodologies and statistical analysis of research data
- Familiarity with industry-specific standards such as ISO, IEC, or sector-relevant regulatory frameworks
Tips for Your Remote Staff R&D Engineer Job Search
Document your async research process publicly
Remote R&D employers want to see how you think and communicate independently. Publish technical write-ups, design documents, or research notes that show your process from problem definition to result. A visible body of written technical work does more than a resume for remote staff roles.
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote staff r&d engineer openings from companies across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly. Applying early matters because distributed teams often move quickly once a role goes live.
Show cross-functional collaboration in distributed environments
Remote staff r&d engineers routinely coordinate with hardware, software, and product teams across time zones. Highlight specific projects where you drove alignment asynchronously, managed technical dependencies remotely, or led reviews using tools like Confluence, Notion, or Jira without in-person meetings.
Signal domain depth in your remote interview
Remote R&D interviews often run as deep technical discussions rather than whiteboard sessions. Come prepared to walk through a past project end-to-end, defend your methodological choices, and explain how you navigated technical uncertainty without direct supervision. Depth and clarity both count.
Remote Staff R&D Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote staff r&d engineer job?
Target companies with established remote engineering cultures, such as remote-first product companies and distributed R&D teams in sectors like biotech, aerospace, and deep tech. Remote employers screen heavily for self-direction, clear written communication, and the ability to drive complex technical projects without daily oversight. Candidates who demonstrate experience with asynchronous collaboration tools, rigorous documentation practices, and independent problem-solving on multi-disciplinary engineering challenges stand out for remote staff r&d roles.
Which companies hire remote staff r&d engineers?
Companies hiring remote staff 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 companies, distributed defense and aerospace contractors, and growth-stage biotech and hardware firms that have built fully distributed R&D organizations.
Can you get a remote staff r&d engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level staff r&d roles are harder to land because employers expect you to work independently from day one with minimal hand-holding. You can open the door by contributing to open-source hardware or software research projects, publishing documented technical work, or completing graduate research with real deliverables. Remote-first startups in deep tech or biotech are most likely to take a chance on candidates who show strong self-direction and initiative in lieu of professional experience.
Do you need a degree for remote staff r&d engineer jobs?
Usually, but the weight of a degree varies by domain. Many remote employers in software-adjacent R&D weigh demonstrated research output, patent filings, open-source contributions, and a verifiable portfolio of technical results alongside or instead of a formal credential. In hardware, biotech, and regulated industries, a relevant advanced degree is more commonly required, though exceptionally strong practical experience can sometimes substitute at the staff level.
Which industries hire the most remote staff r&d engineers?
Most remote staff r&d engineer openings sit in Technology & Software, Electronics & Hardware, and Non-Profit & Social Services, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors have invested heavily in distributed R&D infrastructure, allowing them to run complex engineering research programs across geographically dispersed teams without requiring engineers to report to a central lab.
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