Smart Wires Inc. Tech Stack
Grid-enhancing power-flow control for utility transmission and renewable integration
Smart Wires manufactures FACTS (Flexible AC Transmission Systems) controllers that utilities deploy to increase transmission capacity and manage congestion without new physical lines. The engineering-heavy tech stack—ANSYS, PSS/E, PowerWorld, PowerFactory, FPGAs, PSCAD—reflects a hardware-simulation-intensive business where electromagnetic and power-systems modeling dominates design cycles. Current hiring velocity is accelerating, with nearly all open roles concentrated in engineering and testing infrastructure, suggesting active product-development cycles and a push to improve consistency across global test sites.
Tech Stack 13 technologies
What Smart Wires Inc. Is Building
◆Challenges
- Reducing congestion
- Minimizing community disruption
- Integrating new load and generation
- Improving product reliability
- Managing development risks
- Smooth prototype build
- Industry standard compliance
- Improving testing consistency across global sites
- Digitalizing test data collection
- Reducing time-to-market through early testing
▲Active Projects
- Fleet device upgrades
- New product engineering
- Pcba design from concept to production
- Analytics and application engineering
- Testing infrastructure roadmap
- Digitalization of test data collection
- Capacity planning for testing resources
- New product introduction
- Prototype testing
- Steady-state and dynamic studies of customer transmission systems
Hiring Activity
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: Director of Testing, Chief of Engineering
