Senior Protection Engineer (Transmission & System Studies)

Location: Fully remote or hybrid from Lakewood, Colorado; candidates must be authorized to work full-time in the United States. The role includes periodic field engagement and typically 15–25% travel.

Salary: $100,000–$165,000 per year

Company

hirify.global provides electric-power engineering and consulting services for utility, transmission, generation, and interconnection projects.

What you will do

• Serve as a subject matter expert and provide technical leadership for protection engineering, short-circuit studies, modeling, calculations, and design decisions.
• Develop, maintain, and validate protection and short-circuit models using ASPEN OneLiner, PSS®CAPE, or similar tools.
• Perform transmission, substation, generator, renewable-generation, utility interconnection, and cluster studies.
• Evaluate fault current, relay coordination, equipment duty, protection performance, and impacts of new generation or transmission facilities.
• Prepare technically defensible reports, review study models and engineering deliverables, and identify practical risk-mitigation measures.
• Coordinate with utilities, clients, project managers, and design engineers; mentor engineers and support proposals, commissioning, troubleshooting, and NERC compliance activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering; an electric-power emphasis is preferred.
• Five or more years of relevant protection engineering, power-system studies, utility, consulting, or field experience.
• Strong transmission-level or generator-protection experience, with transmission experience strongly preferred.
• Advanced proficiency with ASPEN OneLiner and PSS®CAPE or similar power-system study software.
• Engineer-in-Training/Fundamentals of Engineering credential required; Professional Engineer licensure preferred.
• Must be authorized to work full-time in the United States.

Nice to have

• Experience with arc-flash, harmonic, NERC compliance, reactive-power, load-flow, grounding, dynamic, transient-stability, or generator interconnection studies.
• Experience with protection and control design, relay testing, commissioning, and utility-specific requirements.
• Professional Engineer licensure in a U.S. jurisdiction.
• Knowledge of PSS®E, PSLF, PowerFactory, ETAP, SKM PowerTools, EasyPower, PSCAD, CDEGS, WinIGS, or WindMil.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote or hybrid work model based on location and project needs.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Employer-paid life insurance and long-term disability coverage.
• 401(k) with employer matching, paid time off, paid holidays, and paid parental leave.
• Opportunities for conferences, technical training, workshops, and continuing education.