Senior Director, Energy Optimization & Orchestration Solution

TransGrid Energy

12d•$250,000 - $255,000

About The Position

We are seeking a Senior Director, Energy Optimization & Orchestration Solutions to lead the development of a next-generation energy optimization platform that combines advanced optimization, agentic AI, power systems, controls, distributed energy resources, and data center operations. The mission of this role is to transform energy infrastructure from a static constraint into a dynamically managed capacity resource. The first major application will focus on grid interactive – flexible data center energy optimization—unlocking additional usable MW from existing power and cooling infrastructure while maintaining reliability, resiliency, and operational safety. As AI infrastructure becomes increasingly power constrained, data centers can no longer manage power, cooling, compute, storage, and grid interaction independently. These systems must be orchestrated as one integrated operating environment. The Senior Director will lead the development of the technology, architecture, and organization required to make that possible.

Requirements

15+ years of relevant experience, including significant leadership responsibility.
Strong expertise in optimization, controls, power systems, or energy management.
Experience applying optimization to physical assets is essential.
Ability to bridge physical infrastructure, software, optimization, AI, and business value.
Ability to translate advanced technology into deployable, scalable products.
Authorization to work in the US prior to joining TransGrid Energy LLC.

Nice To Haves

BESS
EMS/DERMS/VPP
microgrids
SCADA/EPMS/BMS
data centers
GPU infrastructure
energy markets
digital twins
cloud/edge software
agentic AI

Responsibilities

Maximize productive compute capacity from every available MW.
Develop a platform that continuously determines how much additional compute load a data center can safely support based on real-time electrical capacity, cooling availability, battery state of charge, utility constraints, equipment redundancy, weather, workload flexibility, and operating requirements.
Identify and orchestrate available flexibility across BESS, distributed generation, cooling systems, renewable resources, compute loads, and grid interaction, rather than treating installed utility capacity as a fixed ceiling.
Provide operators with a real-time answer to the question: How many additional MW of productive compute can I safely support right now, for how long, and under what constraints?
Lead the architecture and development of an optimization platform combining mathematical optimization, Model Predictive Control, forecasting, digital twins, risk-aware dispatch, event-driven reoptimization, AI-assisted decision making, and agentic operating workflows.
Focus on the use of agentic AI for energy operations, where specialized agents monitor power capacity, thermal capacity, BESS operation, weather, energy markets, compute flexibility, equipment health, and reliability, working through a common orchestration layer to recommend and execute coordinated operating decisions.
Work across electrical, mechanical, controls, software, and compute infrastructure teams to establish a real-time Available Capacity / Unlockable MW capability and support scenario analysis.
Connect optimization intelligence to real operating systems, including SCADA, EPMS, BMS, PLC/DDC controls, BESS EMS, utility systems, and compute orchestration platforms.
Turn this technology into a repeatable commercial solution, not a series of one-off engineering projects.
Define product architecture, pilot programs, deployment models, performance KPIs, managed-service offerings, and commercialization strategy in collaboration with product, business development, sales, operations, and customers.
Achieve success measured through outcomes including incremental MW unlocked, additional GPU/IT capacity enabled, infrastructure utilization, deferred capital and utility upgrades, PUE improvement, energy cost reduction, BESS value, and grid-service revenue.