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envelio

SaaS digital twin grid management

Distribution Engineer

Full-Time
$145k - $175k/yr
Mid, Senior
Bachelor's
Boston, MA, USA
HybridHybrid in Boston, or remote within the Eastern Time Zone; travel to conferences, customer meetings, and the Boston office is required.
Solution EngineeringPre-Sales Solution Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 5-7+ years of experience in technical sales, field application engineering, consulting, electrical construction, utility engineering, or a similar customer-facing technical role.
  • Experience with utility planning and engineering software such as CYME, Synergi, GIS platforms, or similar tools.
  • Knowledge of distributed energy resources, interconnection processes, hosting capacity analysis, or grid modernization initiatives.
  • Experience working with SaaS solutions or software implementation projects.
  • Strong understanding of electric utility operations, power systems, and electrical distribution networks.
  • Experience working with CRM systems and sales enablement tools.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a consultative mindset.
Responsibilities
  • Serve as a trusted technical advisor to utility customers by translating complex electrical engineering concepts into customer-focused solutions.
  • Identify customer challenges, assess existing processes and technology landscapes, and develop solution recommendations that drive measurable business value.
  • Partner with sales and business development teams to prospect new customers, expand existing relationships, and support revenue growth objectives.
  • Conduct technical discovery sessions, workshops, product demonstrations, and proof-of-concept engagements with utility stakeholders.
  • Build business cases and return-on-investment analyses to help customers evaluate technology investments and support decision-making.
  • Develop and deliver executive-level presentations, technical proposals, and solution recommendations.
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, and customer success teams to incorporate customer needs and market feedback into product development and go-to-market strategies.
  • Support contract discussions, scope definition, and technical evaluations throughout the sales process.
  • Represent envelio at industry conferences, webinars, and customer events to strengthen market presence and industry relationships.
Desired Qualifications
  • Familiarity with utility regulatory environments and planning processes.
  • Ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Ability to build relationships, influence stakeholders, and navigate customer organizations.

About the company

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envelio

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envelio offers a cloud-based Intelligent Grid Platform (IGP) that helps distribution system operators digitize and automate grid planning, operations, and interconnection processes as a software service. The platform creates a digital twin of the power grid and uses machine learning to improve data quality, build validated models, and run real-time simulations to forecast grid states, manage congestion, and determine hosting capacity. By automating these workflows, envelio reduces technical evaluation time from weeks to minutes and speeds up DER and renewable energy integration. The company targets DSOs of all sizes and is backed by E.ON, with international expansion including a Boston office to serve North America. Its goal is to accelerate grid modernization and simplify the transition to distributed energy resources.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Grant

Total Funding

$9M

Headquarters

Cologne, Germany

Founded

2017

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What believers are saying

  • Tekniska Verken planned full rollout for September 2026 after a successful PoC.
  • Reuters awarded envelio's Grid Infrastructure work in July 2026, strengthening sales credibility.
  • IGP Agents testing with several utilities targets Q1 2027 launch and higher platform stickiness.

What critics are saying

  • Tekniska Verken's September 2026 rollout and IGP Agents' 2027 launch expose execution risk.
  • DIgSILENT PowerFactory 2026 and incumbent grid suites pressure envelio on engineering depth.
  • E.ON majority ownership concentrates control; a failed North America push would cap independence.

What makes envelio unique

  • E.ON backs envelio, giving it utility access and distribution credibility since 2021.
  • Its IGP now serves over 90 utilities, modeling 320,000 grids and 40 million connections.
  • GPU power-flow solver cuts annual simulations to under 30 seconds, unlike desktop tools.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Remote Work Options
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Hybrid Work Options
  • Home Office Stipend
  • Commuter Benefits

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

14%

1 year growth

14%

2 year growth

14%
PR Newswire
Sep 28th, 2026
envelio launches AI-powered IGP Agents to streamline electric utility grid planning and operations

envelio is integrating AI assistants called IGP Agents into its Intelligent Grid Platform to help utility companies manage distribution grid operations more efficiently. The agents allow users to describe tasks in plain language, then automatically access relevant functions, data, and physics-based simulations to deliver solutions. The technology addresses growing complexity in grid management as utilities handle increasing demand, interconnection volumes, and changing load patterns. IGP Agents can perform tasks such as analysing battery storage allocation, identifying grid model errors, and detecting critical areas across entire grids. Security features include human approval requirements for all actions and data anonymisation before processing. The agents have limited, read-only access and cannot transmit data to commercial AI providers. IGP Agents are currently being tested with several utilities, with market launch planned for Q1 2027. envelio will demonstrate the technology at GridFWD 2026 in Utah on 29-30 September.

Yahoo Finance
Jun 11th, 2026
envelio's GPU-based solver cuts grid calculations from weeks to 30 seconds — 20,000x faster

Cologne-based envelio has developed a GPU-based power flow solver that accelerates grid calculations up to 20,000 times faster than conventional desktop tools, reducing annual time-series simulations from days or weeks to under 30 seconds. The patent-pending technology uses physics-based calculations rather than AI estimation to simulate power grid behaviour when connecting new loads like data centres, EV charging stations and renewable energy systems. This enables utilities to conduct real-time, large-scale grid simulations as part of daily operations. The breakthrough addresses a critical infrastructure bottleneck, with over 2,500 gigawatts of generation, storage and industrial projects currently stuck in grid connection queues worldwide. The solver allows utilities to assess grid capacities, evaluate connection requests and make investment decisions faster whilst maintaining engineering reliability.

PR Newswire
Jan 29th, 2026
envelio and Integral Analytics integrate LoadSEER forecasting with Intelligent Grid Platform for automated utility planning

envelio, Inc. and Integral Analytics have announced an integration between LoadSEER and the envelio Intelligent Grid Platform, enabling utilities to apply advanced load forecasts directly within grid planning workflows. The integration combines LoadSEER's load forecasting with envelio's distribution network modelling and load flow capabilities. The partnership allows utilities to evaluate future demand growth against real network constraints, assess impacts on feeders and transformers, and improve hosting capacity assessments. By reducing manual data transfers between forecasting and grid modelling tools, utilities can shorten planning cycles whilst maintaining consistency across planning and engineering workflows. The integrated solution supports distribution system planning, interconnection studies and grid investment decisions. Both companies will present the collaboration at DTECH 2026 and host a joint press conference on 4 February.

PR Newswire
Jan 27th, 2026
envelio launches AI-powered Strategic Grid Planner to automate multi-year utility grid planning

Envelio, Europe's leading smart grid software provider, has launched Strategic Grid Planner, a new application enabling automated, multi-year utility grid planning. The software evaluates thousands of technically feasible and economically optimised alternatives across planning horizons to help utilities design cost-effective grid plans for target years like 2030, 2035 and 2045. The tool addresses the challenge of rapidly evolving distributed generation, battery storage and EV charging infrastructure outpacing traditional planning methods. It uses AI-based optimisation and high-performance simulation to coordinate decisions across planning years, assessing grid optimisation before considering reinforcement or expansion. Strategic Grid Planner expands envelio's Intelligent Grid Platform, already used by over 80 utilities worldwide. The system features a self-learning algorithm that continuously improves based on insights from each planning scenario.

High-Tech Gründerfonds
Jan 28th, 2023
envelio successfully completes Series A financing round with eCAPITAL

eCAPITAL invests in energy grid digitization startup envelio. With the Intelligent Grid Platform (IGP), envelio offers distribution system operators a platform to digitize their energy grids and all related planning and operations processes.