Full-Time
Senior Solutions Engineer
envelio
201-500 employees
SaaS digital twin grid management
Compensation Overview
$130k - $150k/yr
Remote in USA
Remote
Midwest is preferred, with Central Time Zone alignment; occasional travel to conferences, customer meetings, and the Boston office is required.
Bachelor's
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- A bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Energy Systems, Software Engineering, or a related technical field is required.
- At least 7 years of experience managing complex projects or programs and delivering successful outcomes in customer-facing or cross-functional environments is required.
- Strong technical expertise in power systems and electrical engineering principles is required, with experience in utility planning, interconnections, grid modernization, or power system design.
- Familiarity with distributed energy resources, hosting capacity analysis, grid planning software, geographic information systems, or utility analytics platforms is required.
- A deep understanding of the electric utility industry, including utility planning processes, utility data, planning studies, and regulatory frameworks, is required.
- Proven experience managing customer and stakeholder relationships and communicating with technical, operational, and executive audiences is required.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail are required, including the ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
- Experience mentoring and developing junior colleagues and contributing to team growth is required.
- Willingness to travel occasionally for customer meetings, conferences, industry events, and team collaboration is required.
- Own customer implementation projects end-to-end as the primary point of contact throughout onboarding, deployment, and ongoing customer success.
- Configure, validate, and optimize the Intelligent Grid Platform using customer utility data and network models to support real-world grid planning and distributed energy resource use cases.
- Serve as a trusted technical and industry advisor on grid planning, utility operations, interconnection workflows, and best practices.
- Lead customer workshops and stakeholder discussions to understand business challenges, define requirements, and drive successful project outcomes.
- Enable rapid customer adoption and value realization by helping utilities integrate the Intelligent Grid Platform into their planning and operational processes.
- Act as the voice of the customer internally by translating customer needs, industry trends, and market insights into actionable product requirements and roadmap recommendations.
- Collaborate with technical and commercial teams to deliver high-quality solutions and maximize customer value.
- Mentor and support junior team members through coaching, knowledge sharing, and implementation best-practice development.
- Support go-to-market initiatives through product demonstrations, technical presentations, thought leadership content, request for proposal responses, partner engagements, and industry event participation.
- Represent envelio at conferences, webinars, workshops, and other industry forums to strengthen market presence and customer relationships.
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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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Envelio joined GridWise Alliance on April 14, 2026, deepening U.S. regulatory access.
- Reuters honored envelio on July 1, 2026, validating deployment-ready grid software.
- The January 2026 LoadSEER integration expands planning workflows for utilities using forecast data.
What critics are saying
- DIgSILENT, Opus One, and Plexigrid target the same utility planning budget.
- E.ON's majority stake can force envelio into group priorities over independent growth.
- If utilities standardize on DIgSILENT, envelio becomes an acquired feature, not a platform.
What makes envelio unique
- envelio's IGP builds physics-based digital twins for distribution grids, not AI approximations.
- Its June 2026 GPU solver runs annual simulations in under 30 seconds.
- Strategic Grid Planner automates multi-year planning across 2030, 2035, and 2045 horizons.
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Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
↑ 16%1 year growth
↑ 16%2 year growth
↑ 16%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.
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.
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.
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.
eCAPITAL sold its shares in envelio GmbH, after leading envelio’s Series A financing round.