Job Description:
• Collect the required data and develop fundamental methods and software tools and interfaces required to support large scale electric system capacity expansion.
• Develop the generalized frameworks to link capacity expansion models (CEM), such as GenX and ReEDS, and production cost models (PCM), such as SiennaOps.
• Develop automated workflows to estimate maximum power flow transfer constraints between any arbitrary set of aggregated spatial regions (or 'zones').
• Work towards automating transmission network designs to enable generation interconnections and transmission capacity augmentations consistent with results from CEMs and develop methods for automated downscaling of zonal CEM results to a nodal PCM for further reliability analysis.
Requirements:
• Relevant PhD.
• Or, relevant Master's Degree and 3 or more years of experience.
• Or, relevant Bachelor's Degree and 5 or more years of experience.
• Demonstrates broad understanding and wide application of engineering technical procedures, principles, theories and concepts in the field.
• General knowledge of other related disciplines.
• Demonstrates leadership in one or more areas of team, task or project lead responsibilities.
• Demonstrated experience in management of projects.
• Very good writing, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Domain knowledge of bulk power system modeling, such as capacity expansion, resource adequacy, and/or production cost modeling.
• Demonstrated understanding of power systems and power flow modeling fundamentals.
• Demonstrated experience in optimization modeling, including proficiency with a programming language such as GAMS, Python, and/or Julia.
• Experience with working with large data sets.
• An interest in power system issues.
• Strong written and oral communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and in team settings.
• Preferred bulk power system domain knowledge about investment/planning processes, grid operations, markets, regulatory processes, etc.
• Experience with software engineering practices, including version control systems, automated testing frameworks, and continuous integration pipelines.
• Deep familiarity with using and developing Sienna for power systems modeling.
Benefits:
• medical, dental, and vision insurance
• short- and long-term disability insurance
• pension benefits
• 403(b) Employee Savings Plan with employer match
• life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
• personal time off (PTO) and sick leave
• paid holidays
• tuition reimbursement