[Hiring] Senior Power Systems Engineer @Bidgely, Inc

Role Description

As a Senior Power Systems Engineer, you are a software engineer with deep power flow and grid planning expertise. You will build the product that lets utilities run capacity, scenario and interconnection studies — you will not run those studies by hand as a consultant would. You own the electrical correctness of everything the product produces, working alongside the Grid portfolio's software developers. Reporting to the Director of Engineering, with a dotted line to the Director of Product, Grid Planning, you will:

• Own how power flow is delivered inside the product: evaluate open-source and licensed solvers, recommend one, and integrate and operate it. We will not write our own solver.
• Build and maintain the capacity digital twin of the grid, including the data requirements and utility integrations that feed it.
• Build the scenario, forecasting, real loading and interconnection study capabilities planners use, on top of the twin and the power flow solution.
• Establish whether results are true: benchmark against sanctioned planning tools and field data, and defend results directly to utility planners and engineers.
• Run quick proofs of concept for grid planning solutions — a new study capability, a solver option or an interconnection approach — on a utility's own data in days, and turn what works into the production path.

Qualifications

• BTech or MTech in Electrical Engineering; power systems specialization preferred.
• 5+ years in distribution system modeling or power systems analysis, including models built personally from imperfect source data.
• Hands-on with at least one distribution power flow tool: OpenDSS, CYME, Synergi, PowerFactory, PSS®SINCAL or an ADMS power flow engine.
• Model validation experience: can benchmark one tool against another and explain the differences.
• Utility consulting or EPC background with multi-utility exposure is strongly preferred.

Requirements

• Unbalanced three-phase distribution load flow: voltage bases, phase representation, equipment models, thermal and voltage limits, and reverse flow.
• Working knowledge of the distribution capacity planning cycle: what a planner does with a result, and what makes them reject one.
• Strongly preferred: large-load or data center interconnection, including phased energization and onsite generation or storage.
• Strongly preferred: flexible or non-firm interconnection — conditional service, curtailment envelopes and flexible connection agreements.
• Strongly preferred: connectivity model conversion at scale from CIM, GIS or vendor exports; AMI interval data and 8760 forecasting; DER hosting capacity; N-1 and switching analysis.
• Strongly preferred: Python, including profiling numerical code at scale, and experience evaluating or integrating a commercial solver SDK.

Benefits

• Shape how utilities plan the grid through electrification, DER growth and the data center surge.
• Be the grid authority on a product that turns AMI data into planning decisions.
• Competitive compensation, benefits and opportunities for professional growth.
• Work at the intersection of AI, data and power systems engineering.

Company Description

We are an AI-powered, cloud-based SaaS solution provider that enables electric, gas and water utilities worldwide to personalize customer experiences, optimize grid and customer operations, and accelerate their journey towards the clean energy future. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, we serve some of the biggest names in the energy and utilities industry across the USA, Canada, the EU, the Middle East, India, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. We hold 25+ energy patents, have raised $77M+ in funding, and bring a passion for AI to utilities serving 35M+ customers and meters around the world.