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title: "Battery Energy Storage Engineer"
description: "Designs and integrates grid-scale battery storage systems that store electricity from the grid, solar or wind and release it when needed."
canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/careers/battery-energy-storage-engineer"
last-updated: "2026-10-09T10:57:55.138Z"
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# Battery Energy Storage Engineer

**Category:** Architecture and Engineering · **SOC code:** 17-2071 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 17-2071.00

Designs and integrates grid-scale battery storage systems that store electricity from the grid, solar or wind and release it when needed.

Also advertised as: BESS Engineer; Energy Storage Engineer; Energy Storage Systems Engineer; Grid-Scale Storage Engineer; Storage Integration Engineer.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $120,630 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $58.00/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $76,550 to $184,300, with the middle half between $92,830 and $152,950
- **Total US employment:** 198,750
- **Typical entry education:** Bachelor's
- **Preparation required:** Medium preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +9.9% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 11,400 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 24/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure

## Pay

National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 198,750 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $76,550 |
| 25th | $92,830 |
| 50th (median) | $120,630 |
| 75th | $152,950 |
| 90th | $184,300 |
| Mean (average) | $125,100 |

### Pay by state

The 15 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there.

| State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NM | $158,520 | $171,908 | 2,560 |
| CA | $144,040 | $130,094 | 24,230 |
| DC | $143,000 | $130,117 | 330 |
| NH | $135,710 | $130,284 | 1,600 |
| WA | $132,710 | $124,013 | 7,610 |
| TX | $129,450 | $133,375 | 20,870 |
| ID | $129,340 | $135,443 | 1,000 |
| MA | $127,720 | $120,767 | 5,040 |
| DE | $126,970 | $127,214 | 660 |
| AK | $125,970 | $123,067 | 350 |
| AL | $125,630 | $141,439 | 4,600 |
| NJ | $125,370 | $115,224 | 2,940 |
| OR | $125,160 | $121,090 | 2,540 |
| MD | $125,150 | $119,237 | 4,650 |
| LA | $123,710 | $140,250 | 990 |

36 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 51 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/battery-energy-storage-engineer/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/battery-energy-storage-engineer.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 199,700 in the 2025–2035 base year to 219,500 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 19,800 jobs, or +9.9%. Much faster than average: 9.9% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 11,400 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2025–2035.

## How to get in

- **Typical entry education:** Bachelor's degree (BLS Employment Projections).
- **Preparation level:** Medium preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** None.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** None.

### Education people in this job actually hold

O\*NET surveys incumbents, so this distribution describes who is in the job today and can differ from the BLS entry requirement above.

| Education level | Share of workers |
| --- | --- |
| Bachelor's Degree | 81.6% |
| Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree | 11.0% |
| Master's Degree | 7.3% |

## What the work involves

- Size battery storage systems for grid applications
- Select batteries, inverters and transformers
- Design site layouts that meet fire codes and spacing rules
- Develop charge and discharge control strategies
- Prepare interconnection studies and documentation
- Commission systems and verify performance
- Monitor battery health and degradation data

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Writing — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Listening — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Transferable skills

These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site.

- Complex Problem Solving — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Systems Analysis — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Systems Evaluation — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Operations Analysis — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Social Perceptiveness — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Instructing — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- Engineering and Technology — importance 4.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Computers and Electronics — importance 4.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Design — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 3.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Physics — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Written Comprehension — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Expression — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Expression — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Problem Sensitivity — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Deductive Reasoning — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

## Who it suits

O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Realistic (R), Investigative (I), Conventional (C).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| R — Realistic | 6.02 |
| I — Investigative | 5.62 |
| C — Conventional | 4.55 |
| E — Enterprising | 2.44 |
| A — Artistic | 2.12 |
| S — Social | 1.72 |

### Personality fit

These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job.

| Type | Fit score (0–100) |
| --- | --- |
| ISTJ | 89.9 |
| ISTP | 86.0 |
| INTJ | 82.8 |
| INTP | 66.1 |
| ESTJ | 65.4 |

Best-fitting types: ISTJ, ISTP.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [Electrical Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electrical-engineer) — median $120,630
- [Electronics Engineer, Except Computer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electronics-engineer) — median $130,220
- [Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologist and Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electrical-and-electronic-engineering-technologist-and-technician) — median $78,190
- [Mechanical Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/mechanical-engineer) — median $104,110
- [Electrical and Electronics Repairer, Commercial and Industrial Equipment](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electrical-and-electronics-repairer-commercial-and-industrial-equipment) — median $74,090
- [Mechanical Engineering Technologist and Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/mechanical-engineering-technologist-and-technician) — median $74,510
- [Electrical and Electronics Repairer, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electrical-and-electronics-repairer-powerhouse-substation-and-relay) — median $103,020
- [Mechatronics Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/mechatronics-engineer) — median $122,930
- [Industrial Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/industrial-engineer) — median $102,440
- [Solar Energy Systems Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/solar-energy-systems-engineer) — median $122,930

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2025–2035. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

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