Lead Grid Systems Engineer

2 weeks ago


Schenectady, New York, United States GE Vernova Full time
Job Description Summary

As a member of the GE Vernova Solar and Storage Solutions business, the successful candidate will be an active contributor supporting GE Vernova business initiatives related to power systems and power electronics equipment and services. You will be providing support under the direction of the senior members of the team.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Product Development and Technical Analysis: Provide technical analysis related to power electronic and power systems control of renewable generation, battery energy storage systems, and large industrial drives.
  • Technical Expertise: Develop technical understanding of electrical characteristics of GE power electronics products and their integration to electrical grids.
  • Customer Support: Support customers with power systems engineering expertise; including equipment design, specification studies, commissioning support, troubleshooting, and failure mode analyses.
  • Product Development: Supporting continuous development of transmission and distribution connected products based on evolving codes and standards through participation in industry standards groups and leading innovative approaches to power equipment design.
  • Communication: Effectively communicate to both internal and external customers by preparing detailed written reports or presentations describing analyses performed, solutions developed, and customer value propositions.
  • Project Management: Support domestic and international projects across regions depending on overall market needs and communicate customer needs and values back to GE.
  • Team Collaboration: Actively participate on and support project teams ensuring high quality deliverables, budget, and on-time project metrics are met.
Required Qualifications:
  • Education: Bachelor's Degree in electrical or electric power engineering or related degree.
  • Experience: Minimum 3 years of professional experience in an engineering field (or Bachelor's degree and relevant research experience).
  • Technical Skills: Minimum 1 year experience in MATLAB/PSCAD, PSSE/PSLF, Python, C, C#, Hardware in Loop Testing (HIL).
Desired Characteristics:
  • Advanced Education: Master's or PhD degree in electrical or electric power engineering, or related field of study.
  • Technical Expertise: Demonstrated modeling and technical experience in technical performance analysis of electric power systems with power electronic sources or loads. Experience in planning and execution of technical projects relevant to electric power systems and equipment design.
  • Communication Skills: Excellent interpersonal communication skills (e.g. ability to effectively communicate with all levels of GE and customer/plant staff).
  • Industry Knowledge: Understanding of grid systems interactions with power plant equipment and controls.
  • Technical Tools: Experience with time-domain simulation tools (ATP/EMTP desired, PSCAD/EMTDC required, and MATLAB desired). Experience with programming environments to understand controller code and complex simulation modeling (Python or Fortran desired).
  • Problem-Solving Skills: Demonstrated application of complex mathematics and engineering to real-world (not merely academic) electric power problems.
  • Industry Reputation: Industry reputation, prior IEEE/CIGRE published articles related to practical (not overly-academic) topics, participation in industry standards working groups.
  • Patents: Awarded patents on HV power equipment applications a plus.
  • Modeling and Simulation: Experience with modeling and simulating inverter-based technologies in PSSE and PSLF using both generic and user-written models.


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