Sr. Electricity Market Optimization Software Engineer

GE Vernova; Bellevue (KY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Vernova is seeking a Senior Electricity Market Optimization Software Engineer to join a team of 8-15 engineers. You will define, develop, and evolve software for large on-premise Electricity Market Management Systems used by utilities, ISOs/TSOs.

Your role includes technical leadership, design, testing, and integration across cross-functional teams. You will mentor juniors, interact with customers, and ensure on-time delivery within budget while applying Lean/Agile/XP, CI, and security

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or STEM field.
• 4+ years experience in Electricity Markets, Security Constrained Unit Commitment and Economic Dispatch using MIP.
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Define, develop, and evolve software in an agile environment.
• Provide domain knowledge and technical leadership to engineers.
• Lead electricity market application development and ensure timely delivery.
• Write design notes and testing procedures.
• Provide budget estimates for new tasks to leads/managers.
• Collaborate with customers to ensure quality and requirements.
• Mentor junior team members.
• Interact with product, customers, partners, and cross-functional teams.
• Apply SDLC, Lean/Agile/XP, CI, security, and testing practices.

Skills

Power systems

Leadership

MIP

GitHub

CI/CD

Test automation

Agile

Education

Master's in Electrical Engineering

Tools

GitHub

CI/CD tools

Job description

Job Description Summary

In this role, you will work closely with a team of 8-15 people who are responsible for enhancing, evolving, and supporting large on-premise highly-available Electricity Market Management System (MMS). The team includes power systems, database, software, and optimization engineers. As a Senior Electricity Market Optimization Software Engineer, you will contribute and lead advanced Power Systems Application software design, development, testing, integration and tuning to meet project and/or product commitments. The projects mainly consist of developing power system features for Electric Utilities, Independent System Operators (ISOs) and Transmission System Operators (TSOs).

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

• Be responsible for defining, developing, and evolving software in a fast paced and agile development environment using the latest software development technologies and infrastructure
• Provide domain knowledge and/or technical leadership to a team of electricity markets application software engineers
• Lead and contribute to electricity market application development and ensure software delivery is on schedule, within budget and meets or exceeds customer expectations
• Write documents such as design notes, testing procedures, etc.
• Provide budgetary estimate for new project tasks to project leads and project managers
• Work with customer throughout the project life cycle to ensure the software meets customer's quality standards and functional requirements.
• Mentor junior team members
• Interact with Product Development Team, Customers, Solution Providers (Partner / Integrators), and other cross-functional teams as required.
• Apply principles of SDLC and methodologies like Lean/Agile/XP, CI, software and product security, scalability, documentation practices, refactoring, and testing techniques

Basic Qualifications

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering with thesis or related work in power systems OR in "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• A minimum of Four (4) years of experience in Electricity Markets, Security Constrained Unit Commitment and Economic Dispatch using Mixed Integer Programming (MIP), or Power System Analysis applications.
• Legal authorization to work in the country where the job is posted. GE may agree to sponsor an individual for an employment visa now or in the future if there is a shortage of individuals with particular skills.

Desired Characteristics

Technical Expertise

• PhD in Electrical Engineering with thesis or related work in power systems, plus One (1) years of experience in development or project delivery experience in Electricity Market field
• Continuous improvement oriented; actively generates process improvements, champions and drives change initiatives
• Highly organized and efficient; able to balance competing priorities and execute accordingly
• Strong understanding of Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP)
• Experience with testing and test automation.
• Strong knowledge of source control management and GitHub in particular.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new software development practices, languages, and tools.
• Self-starter; comfortable pulling together information from multiple resources.

Leadership

• Serves as a mentor to newer team members in support of business goals and objectives.
• Continuously measures the completion rate of personal deliverables and compares them to the scheduled commitments.
• Provides transparency into problem solving approach and options. Demonstrates ability to determine fair and reasonable outcomes with shared tradeoffs.
• Demonstrates ability to define requirements and collaborate on solutions, leveraging personal technical knowledge and network of experts. Communication style encourages effective interaction with customer and cross-functional teams. Leverages knowledge of product capability to mitigate risk and drive desired outcome.

Personal Attributes

• Great at helping others understand and adopt new DevOps skills and practices - both within your work team and with the customer.
• Detailed oriented and expect software systems to be organized and automated.
• Curiosity drives your learning. You naturally work to extend your sphere of knowledge of the greater system within which your components are a part.
• Comfortable planning and completing your own work. You can run with a list of tasks to be done, but also know when to ask questions.
• Influences and energizes others toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable.
• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.

Eligibility Requirements

Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. GE may ag