Senior Relay Settings Engineer

Mar 03, 2026

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The Leidos Energy, Infrastructure, and Automation operation helps solve utilities' complex challenges through our full life-cycle, performance-based solutions. Our services include engineering, planning, project management, construction management, and commissioning for electric power substations and transmission and distribution lines; protection and controls design; and electrification programs. Utilities consistently come to Leidos for reliable power expertise, as reflected through our work with more than 75 investor‑owned utilities and more than 100 municipals/cooperatives across the country as well as a growing number of private developers.

We are in search of a Senior Relay Settings Engineer to join our diverse and fast‑paced Framingham, MA organization. As a core team member, you will be interacting with other electric utility disciplines, playing a valuable part in leading and designing utility substation and renewable energy projects.

• Fully remote available.
• Hybrid:
  Two to four days a week in the Framingham, MA office.
• Must be willing to travel to customer sites and in‑office / testing lab as needed.

• Professional Engineer License (PE)
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Technical & non‑technical training opportunities
• Mentorship Program

• Work with protection engineers and perform quality reviews on relay setting packages.
• Create logic diagrams for IEC
  61850 substations.
• Work directly with clients as well as other staff in remote office locations.
• Support a full range of project planning activities through design and construction support.
• Prepare relay settings from 4.16kV through 500kV, including relay set points, logic diagrams, configuration files and documentation.
• Solve challenging substation engineering problems.

• Senior Level: Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) and four plus years of related experience.
• Lead Level: Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) and eight plus years of related experience.
• Experience creating relay settings and logic diagrams.
• Capable of using Aspen One Liner and/or Siemens CAPE for coordination studies and fault study analysis.
• Preparation of protective relay coordination studies.
• Experience with development of relay settings for microprocessor relays including SEL, Alstom, GE, ABB and others for both transmission line relays and substation relays.
• Familiarity with Schweitzer AcSELerator Quick Set, General Electric Ener Vista and Schneider Electric MiCOM software is a plus.
• Strong engineering and interpersonal skills and high attention to detail with a passion for quality.
• Experience implementing control and protection schemes including interpreting schematics and wiring diagrams and preparing relay logic to complete the schemes.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills required when interfacing with clients and staff.

• Experience preparing technical reports.
• Familiarity with PTC Mathcad software.
• Previous Quality Assurance/Quality Control experience.
• Periodic travel may be required.

Pay Range: $87,100.00 - $

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.