Expert Engineer, ATS Grid Technology

Applied Technology Services (ATS) has been providing technology-based, innovative, high-value services to the Company for over 50 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 Expert Electrical Engineer, ATS Grid Technology Engineering & Evaluation 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 Expert Electrical Engineer, Grid Technology Engineering & Evaluation 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.

The ATS Grid Technology Engineering & Evaluation staff provides:

• Technology literature review and feasibility assessment
• Electric T&D technology evaluation
• Electric power system modeling 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%.

The selected candidate must live within PG&E’s service territory.

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, and internal equity.

Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.

A reasonable salary range is:

• Minimum Base Salary (Bay Area) $
• Mid Base Salary (Bay Area) $
• Maximum Base Salary (Bay Area) $

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

• Independently develops and executes new practical solutions to highly complex problems
• May partner with stakeholder organizations to develop electric grid design and operational enhancement strategies.
• Develop existing and new relationships with other PG&E functional areas to understand expectations, concerns and ensure strong customer satisfaction.
• Develops test protocols, models, technologies and…