Electrical Engineer - Microgrid Systems

Leidos; United States; Remote; USD 87,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos' Power Delivery Solutions is hiring an Electrical Engineer, Microgrid Systems to serve as the Engineer of Record for complete microgrid system designs. This role integrates PV generation, BESS, backup generators, MV/LV distribution, protection, and controls/SCADA interfaces into a cohesive, constructible design.

This hands-on system integration role focuses on detailed electrical design with EOR-level responsibility for microgrid or DER projects, owning the full electrical design package

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited program with a focus on power systems.
• 4–8 years of detailed electrical design and system integration experience (EOR-level design preferred).
• Experience designing and integrating PV, BESS, generators into a single electrical system.
• Experience with MV/LV distribution, protection coordination, and interconnection design.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Engineer of Record for microgrid electrical designs across PV, BESS, generation, and distribution assets.
• Develop detailed electrical design deliverables: one-line/three-line diagrams, equipment specs, protection studies, interconnection designs.
• Integrate MV/LV distribution with generation and storage assets complying with interconnection requirements and codes/standards.
• Coordinate protection scheme design and controls/SCADA interface requirements across vendors and disciplines.
• Lead technical reviews of EPC and OEM deliverables to ensure client standards and project performance.
• Interface with clients, EPCs, and vendors to resolve design issues and ensure constructability.
• Support permitting, interconnection applications, and utility coordination as needed.
• Participate in multidisciplinary design reviews for microgrid and DER projects.

Skills

Power systems

Electrical design

EOR experience

DER integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Protection coordination

Interconnection design

SCADA interfaces

Job description

Leidos' Power Delivery Solutions is hiring an Electrical Engineer, Microgrid Systems to serve as the Engineer of Record (EOR) for complete microgrid system designs. This role is responsible for the detailed, multidisciplinary electrical engineering that integrates major microgrid components — PV generation, battery energy storage systems (BESS), backup/standby generators, MV/LV distribution, protection, and controls/SCADA interfaces — into a cohesive, constructible system design.

This is a hands-on system integration and design role, not a controls, applications, or product-development position. The ideal candidate has a strong background in detailed electrical design and EOR-level responsibility for microgrid or distributed energy projects, and is comfortable owning the full electrical design package from concept through construction support.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as Engineer of Record for microgrid electrical designs, taking ownership of system-level integration across PV, BESS, generation, and distribution assets.
• Develop detailed electrical design deliverables, including one-line/three-line diagrams, equipment specifications, protection and coordination studies, and interconnection designs.
• Integrate MV/LV distribution design with generation and storage assets, ensuring compliance with utility interconnection requirements and applicable codes/standards.
• Coordinate protection scheme design and controls/SCADA interface requirements across multiple vendors and disciplines (civil, structural, controls, SCADA).
• Lead technical review of EPC and OEM deliverables to ensure compliance with client standards and project performance requirements.
• Interface directly with clients, EPCs, and equipment vendors to resolve design issues and ensure constructability.
• Support permitting, interconnection applications, and utility coordination as needed.
• Participate in and/or lead multidisciplinary design reviews for microgrid and DER projects.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited program, with a focus on power systems.
• 4-8 years of experience in detailed electrical design and system integration for microgrid, distribution, generation, or storage projects (EOR-level design experience strongly preferred).
• Demonstrated experience designing and integrating multiple DER asset types (PV, BESS, generators) into a single electrical system.
• Experience with MV/LV distribution system design, protection coordination, and interconnection design.
• Working knowledge of controls/SCADA interface requirements as they relate to electrical system design (controls design itself is not the primary focus of this role).
• PE license or ability to obtain PE licensure preferred

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with VRFB, lithium-ion, or other BESS technologies at the electrical design level.
• Familiarity with reciprocating engine/turbine generator integration.
• Prior EOR role on one or more completed microgrid or DER projects.
• Experience with utility interconnection standards and processes.

The Leidos Energy, Infrastructure, and Automation operation helps solve utilities’ complex challenges through our full life-cycle, performance-based solutions. Our services include engineering, planning, project management, construction management, and commissioning for electric power substations and transmission and distribution lines; protection and controls design; and electrification programs. Utilities consistently come to Leidos for reliable power expertise, as reflected through our work with more than 75 investor-owned utilities and more than 100 municipals/cooperatives across the country as well as a growing number of private developers.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Pay Range

Pay Range $87,100.00 - $157,450.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.