Electrical Engineer, ATS Grid & Electrification Innovation

Requisition # 172663

Job Category:
Engineering / Science

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit:
Strategy & Growth

Work Type:
Onsite

Job Location:

San Ramon;
Danville

Applied Technology Services (ATS) has been providing technology-based, innovative, high-value services to the Company for over 40 years. ATS is a multidisciplinary team of over 120 engineers, scientists, and technicians. The ATS vision is to be a forward-thinking, technological leader providing high-value solutions and services needed across the Company.

The Electrical Engineer, ATS Grid & Electrification Innovation position is located within the Grid & Electrification Innovation (G&EI) organization within ATS. G&EI operates state-of-the-art laboratories for electric transmission and distribution (T&D) hardware & software validation, engineering studies & analysis, real-time hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing, energy efficiency codes & standards testing, advanced metering, customer electrification & decarbonization, as well as data fusion and predictive waveform analytics.

Our highly qualified staff leverage unique technical engineering design & fabrication skills to solve PG&E’s most complex engineering challenges in anomaly detection, system protection, electric reliability, DERs, V2X & electrification, microgrids, ADMS, DERMS, and Integrated Grid Planning (IGP). The incumbents maintain knowledge of and implement to all Company and regulatory safety and quality processes and procedures. This is an on-site position, based in our San Ramon Technology Center office.

The Electrical Engineer, ATS Grid & Electrification Innovation will be at the leading edge of this through performing complex power system analysis, engineering studies, and HIL testing of emerging T&D grid technologies, applications, and devices. The position will involve partnership with a broader team within PG&E including the T&D planning, standards and asset strategy, system protection, and automation engineering teams. Work may range from general technical consultation to comprehensive support from planning through production implementation of new technologies.

• Technology literature review and feasibility assessment
• Electric T&D technology evaluation
• Electric power system modelling and analysis
• Engineering studies
• Advanced metering evaluation
• Distributed energy resource integration assessment
• Laboratory testing
• Travel required; frequency depends on the assignment and is typically less than 5%.

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, collective bargaining agreements, and internal equity.

Bay Area Minimum: $109,000

Bay Area Mid: $142,000

Bay Area Maximum: $175,000

This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

• Collaborates with peers to prepare technical reports and specifications and to identify, define, and solve problems
• Assists senior peers on more complex tests and projects, participating in planning, budgeting and testing
• Completes multiple projects concurrently. Prepares tests and studies.
• Evaluates the performance of parts, assemblies or systems under simulated operating conditions, and records results
• Develops test protocols, models, test technologies and analyzes data. May assist in the development of technical policies and procedures
• Modifies prototypes, parts, assemblies, and systems to correct functional deviations
• Begins to develop knowledge in other areas of specialty/discipline or continues to focus on one area and increases depth of knowledge
• Continually identifies testing or process improvements

Minimum:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
• Job-related experience, 3 years or more or equivalent…