System Advisor Model (SAM) Software Development

The Alliance for Energy Innovation, LLC is seeking information from potential sources to provide support, maintenance, and expansion of the System Advisor Model (SAM) software platform. The SAM platform is an open-source software used by researchers, industry, utilities, and government organizations to evaluate the technical and economic performance of renewable energy technologies. The required capabilities include demonstrated expertise in C++ software development, graphical user interface widgets, energy systems and financial models, software development and automated build processes, and troubleshooting. • Demonstrated high level expertise in C++ software development and architecture design, and object-oriented programming methodologies. • Demonstrated Experience developing and supporting graphical user interface widgets for desktop software applications. • Demonstrated expertise with detailed engineering models of energy systems and financial models for multiple energy markets. • Demonstrated experience supporting software development and automated build processes across multiple operating systems. • Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot, debug, test, and maintain production software applications. • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with technical subject matter experts on a variety of technical subjects and communicate solutions, results, and problems clearly.