Senior Electricity Market Optimization Software Engineer

GE Vernova

5d•Remote

About The Position

At GE Vernova, we are helping power the future by delivering innovative technologies and software that support a more reliable, efficient, and sustainable energy grid. Join a team committed to solving complex challenges and advancing the way the world manages electricity. In this role, you will work closely with a team of 8–15 professionals responsible for enhancing, evolving, and supporting a large, on-premise, highly available Electricity Market Management System (MMS). The team includes experts in power systems, databases, software, and optimization engineering. As a Senior Electricity Market Optimization Software Engineer, you will contribute to and lead the design, development, testing, integration, and tuning of advanced power systems application software to meet project and product commitments. These projects primarily focus on developing power system capabilities for electric utilities, Independent System Operators (ISOs), and Transmission System Operators (TSOs).

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.
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.

Nice To Haves

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.
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.
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.

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

Benefits

medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource
access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services
GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants
tuition assistance
adoption assistance
paid parental leave
disability benefits
life insurance
12 paid holidays
permissive time off