Grid Systems Optimization Engineer (Hybrid)

GridCARE; Redwood City (CA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Health + dental + vision

Lunch three days a week

Hybrid in Redwood City

Remote flexibility

Job summary

GridCARE is hiring an Optimization Engineer for Grid Systems in Redwood City. The role focuses on solving hard optimization problems and building tools that improve grid flexibility, efficiency, and resilience.

You'll work with engineers and researchers on real-world data to support data centers, renewables, and utilities. The ideal candidate has a Master’s or equivalent in a quantitative field, strong math/algorithms background, and production Python or Julia coding experience.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or equivalent in engineering, CS, applied math, physics, or OR.
• Strong fundamentals in math, algorithms, and software engineering.
• Experience writing production-quality Python or Julia code.
• Experience with optimization solvers, simulation tools, and large-scale workflows.
• Ability to reason from first principles and learn quickly.
• Strong debugging, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to leverage modern AI tools to accelerate model development.
• 1–5 years of related optimization, modeling, or scientific software experience.

Responsibilities

• Build optimization and simulation software for large-scale grid planning and operations.
• Develop models and algorithms for scheduling, constraints, reliability, and planning.
• Translate math ideas into clear, tested, maintainable code.
• Analyze performance, identify bottlenecks, and improve reliability.
• Learn, customize, and fine-tune optimization algorithms.
• Work with real-world data and constraints from large systems.
• Collaborate with software, AI, and power systems teams.
• Take ownership of important modeling challenges.

Skills

Math fundamentals

Algorithms

Software engineering

Python

Julia

Optimization experience

Production-quality code

First principles reasoning

Debugging & collaboration

AI tool workflows

Education

Master's degree or equivalent (quantitative field)

Tools

Python

Julia

Optimization solvers

Simulation tools

Job description

GridCARE is hiring an Optimization Engineer for Grid Systems in Redwood City. The role focuses on solving hard optimization problems and building tools that improve grid flexibility, efficiency, and resilience.

You'll work with engineers and researchers on real-world data to support data centers, renewables, and utilities. The ideal candidate has a Master’s or equivalent in a quantitative field, strong math/algorithms background, and production Python or Julia coding experience.