Senior Software Engineer - Electricity Market

GE Vernova • Bellevue, WA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

At GE Vernova, the company is dedicated to transforming the electric power industry through advanced grid and market solutions. Their software teams collaborate with utilities, ISOs, and TSOs to deliver reliable, high-performance technologies that support efficient market operations and a more sustainable energy future. The Senior Electricity Market Optimization Software Engineer will play a key role in leading and contributing to the design, development, testing, integration, and performance tuning of advanced power systems application software, focusing on power system capabilities for electric utilities, Independent System Operators (ISOs), and Transmission System Operators (TSOs). This role involves working within a team of 8–15 professionals to enhance, evolve, and support a large, on-premise, highly available Electricity Market Management System (MMS), with the team comprising power systems, database, software, and optimization engineers. GE Vernova's singular mission is to address the climate crisis by continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to help decarbonize it, embodying a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering with thesis or related work in power systems OR in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• Two to five years of experience in Electricity Markets, Security Constrained Unit Commitment and Economic Dispatch using Mixed Integer Programming (MIP), Energy Management Systems (EMS), or Power System Analysis applications.
• 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

• PHD in Electrical Engineering with thesis or related work in power systems
• Three (3) 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.
• Excellent analytical and debugging skills.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new software development practices, languages, and tools.
• Team player, dedicated, detailed oriented and Customer focused.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Self-starter; comfortable pulling together information from multiple resources.
• Anticipates potential risks, obstacles and resolves proactively in order to ensure smooth project delivery.
• Maintains high levels of customer satisfaction across all projects by addressing customer concerns quickly and effectively; at times, anticipates customer concerns before they become issues.
• Leverages knowledge of market and customer segment in order to establish further credibility in the eyes of the customer.
• Plans and facilitates collaborative discussions with client and others within GE to identity and prioritize client's overall business needs.
• Implements scalable systems according to governance and standards guidelines/boundaries, collaborating with others as necessary.
• Helps team members understand their contributions in support of the broader direction.
• 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.
• Like working on mission critical software and systems
• Detailed oriented and expect software systems to be organized and automated.
• Comfortable and good at chasing down and resolving software issues.
• Curiosity drives your learning. You naturally work to extend your sphere of knowledge of the greater system within which your components are a part.
• Excel in an environment where everything may not be known. You ask good questions to help the team and the customer resolve the unknowns.
• Enjoy working within a team and supporting fellow team members.
• 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.

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
• Promote and demonstrate best practices and high-quality in software development processes
• Write documents such as design notes, testing procedures, etc.
• Provide budgetary estimate for new project tasks to project leads and project managers
• Support tendering team, customer demos and customer training
• Work with customer throughout the project life cycle to ensure the software meets customer’s quality standards and functional requirements.
• Mentor junior team members
• Participate in testing of the integrated system.
• Identify the need for changes whether they are defects or new enhancements
• Work in a self-directed fashion to proactively identify system problems, failures, and areas for improvement.
• Track issue resolution and document solutions implemented and create troubleshooting guides.
• 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
• the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions
• 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
• discretionary annual bonus

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior