Senior Electricity Market Optimization Software Engineer

GE Vernova is committed to delivering innovative technologies and software for a sustainable energy grid. In this role, you will lead the design and development of advanced power systems application software, focusing on electricity market management for utilities and operators.

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

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field, plus a minimum of Two (2) years of experience in power systems analysis, with a focus on electricity market optimization application development
• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering with strong relevant internship experience in power systems, optimization, or a related area
• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with thesis-related work in power systems or optimization
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required
• Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen
• Must be willing to travel 10-20% of the time
• Must be willing to work out of an office located in Bellevue, WA if the need arises
• Strong business knowledge of Wholesale Market Management System, especially PJM, Midwest ISO, Southwest Power Pool, ISO New England or Alberta Electric System Operator
• Hands-on experience in developing optimization software designed to manage large scale systems for Unit Commitment and Economic Dispatch problems
• 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
• 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 GEV. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems