PhD Residency, Utility-Scale Power Electronics (Winter 2026 / Summer 2027)

About Tapestry

Tapestry is a group within Google working to build the AI-powered electric grid. We are tackling one of the world’s most important infrastructure challenges: helping the energy system become more visible, understandable, reliable, affordable, abundant, and clean.

Originally born at X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory, Tapestry brings together experts in energy, AI, software engineering, and products to build tools that help the electricity ecosystem plan smarter, move faster, and operate more efficiently.

This is a global effort. Tapestry supports partners across the U.S., U.K., Chile, New Zealand, Australia, and Brazil as they work toward a cleaner, more resilient energy future.

Joining Tapestry means doing high-impact work with a multidisciplinary team tackling a problem that matters at global scale. Learn more about our team and our mission here.

About the role

In this role, you will lead advanced research and development efforts focused on improving the stability, resilience, and controllability of the electric grid through next-generation utility-scale inverter control. Your work will center on designing, simulating, and validating novel control and orchestration algorithms for inverter-based resources ope