Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Senior Advanced Application Engineer

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: OaklandCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $116,000 - $194,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Act as a lead liaison and collaborate with system integrators, PG&E IT and Cyber Security, and PG&E business Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to implement ADMS.
  • Partner with the vendor to resolve technical challenges, incorporate best practices, and deliver solutions that meet internal client needs efficiently.
  • Maintain in‑depth knowledge of product solutions and provide direction and input into PG&E’s technology roadmap.
  • Enhance and tune PG&E’s electrical distribution Network Model by performing engineering analysis to support advanced application requirements and convergence.
  • Participate in functional testing to validate system performance, ensuring the system accurately incorporates electrical theory, reflects distribution grid operational behavior, and meets PG&E’s acceptance criteria.
  • Lead a review and modernization effort to ensure field apparatus construction standards and operational procedures support current and future systems functionality.
  • Deliver tier‑2 application support and assist control center operations by ensuring optimal application performance and resolving issues related to the network model, telemetry, and overall system functionality.
  • Serve as the applications subject‑matter expert, coordinating across operations, protection, planning, IT, business teams, and cybersecurity.
  • Lead root‑cause analysis for complex SCADA, telemetry, protection, and application performance events.
  • Travel to San Ramon will be required up to 10%.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent experience
  • 5 years of electric utility-related work experience
  • Experience with grid modeling software (e.g. CYMDIST, PSLF, Aspen, etc.)
  • 5 years of experience working in utility operations (transmission and/or distribution power systems)
  • Hands-on experience with one or more commercial EMS/DMS/ADMS systems (e.g., Schneider Electric, GE, Siemens, Hitachi, OSI, etc.)
  • Strong analytical skills mindset, attention to details in the models and data quality, and ability to communicate clearly with operators, engineers, IT staff, and management.
  • Excellent communication (oral and written) and collaboration skills.
  • Ability to build strong relationships with and influence at the Director level of leadership across PG&E.
  • Ability to build/ further community & elevate team performance.
  • Execution ability, ownership, and decisiveness.
  • Has excellent SCADA and ADMS technical knowledge and expertise for products supported.
  • Excellent ability to translate user stories/features to technical tasks.
  • Expert level understanding of Agile values and principals
  • Experience working in a cross-functional, highly matrixed environment
  • Familiarity with key Electric Operations systems such as GIS, DMS, OMS, etc.
  • Knowledge of protection schemes, SCADA/RTU/PMU concepts, communication protocols (e.g., ICCP, DNP3, IEC 61850), and integration of telemetry and status data into applications.
  • Familiarity with network modeling tools and data (IEC CIM or vendor specific models), SQL databases and Scripting (Python, C#, etc.) for automation and data processing.
  • Experience working with the following tools: Jira, MS Excel, Foundry, Power BI
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Hard Skills & Tools
grid modeling softwareCYMDISTPSLFAspenEMSDMSADMSSCADASQLPython
Soft Skills
analytical skillsattention to detailcommunication skillscollaboration skillsrelationship buildinginfluenceexecution abilityownershipdecisivenesscross-functional teamwork