Expert Grid Innovation Engineer
 PG&E | |
 United States, California, Oakland | |
 Jul 22, 2025 | |
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Requisition ID# 166507 Job Category: Engineering / Science Job Level: Individual Contributor Business Unit: Electric Engineering Work Type: Hybrid Job Location: Oakland Department Overview The System Performance, Reliability and Resiliency Strategy team within the overall Electric Transmission and Distribution Engineering organization is responsible for planning, organizing, and managing the resources necessary to successfully execute PG&E's Electric Reliability Strategy and initiatives. This team of forward-thinking individuals will be tasked with deploying technology and infrastructure and influencing the organization to achieve the company's reliability goals. The team is responsible for implementing programs required to modernize the electric grid allowing for safe, resilient, and efficient operations. The team participates in a cross functional team of internal and consulting participants being tasked with leading the transition of a project from development and testing to being operational for each phase of each project. Position Summary The Grid Innovation Engineer ensures the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of the electric power system by providing innovative engineering and advanced reliability analysis support to improve system reliability and resiliency. The role will be part of a technically focused, cross-functional team of engineers, program/project managers, and data scientists to support short and long term strategic grid management and reliability/resiliency improvement. This role sits at the convergence of grid planning, real-time operations, and applied data science, leveraging high-resolution data from sources such as SCADA, load flow studies, distribution planning tool such as CYME etc. This position will leverage data from models and assets in order to develop programs and solutions to enhance grid resiliency. These tools will assess outage risks at both the grid-wide and individual critical customer level, delivering real-time and long-horizon insights into system vulnerabilities and performance under climate stressors and high-impact events. This is a rare opportunity to be part of a founding team that fuses domain expertise, and big data to help architect the climate-resilient, intelligent electric grid of the future. PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of thejob posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will bebased on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience,market value, geographic location, and internal equity.Although we estimatethe successful candidate hiredinto this rolewill be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decisionwill be made on a case-by-casebasis related tothese factors. A reasonable salary range is: Minimum Base Salary (Bay Area) $140,000.00 Job Responsibilities
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