Senior Power System Engineer – AI Grid Studies

Location: Remote within the United States; restricted to U.S. persons, including U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, asylees, and refugees.

Salary: $185,000–$205,000 for Tier 1 U.S. markets; $154,000–$170,000 for Tier 3 U.S. markets; bonus offered. Tier 2 market compensation is not specified.

Company

hirify.global develops software for interconnection life cycle management, helping utilities, grid operators, policymakers, and developers reduce interconnection processing times and support a more reliable and sustainable electric grid.

What you will do

• Develop and test automated workflows for generation and large load interconnection studies.
• Translate study procedures into structured, repeatable, and auditable automation logic.
• Write Python scripts for model preparation, simulation runs, data checks, results analysis, and report generation.
• Prepare and validate model files, assumptions, input data, contingencies, and power flow study outputs using approved data.
• Compare automated results with reference cases, manual studies, engineering expectations, and planning criteria; create QA/QC checks and verify fixes.
• Collaborate with software, AI, engineering, and product teams on document interpretation, model review, study setup, result summarization, reporting, and roadmap development.

Requirements

• PhD in Electrical Engineering focused on Power Systems or a related technical field.
• Foundational knowledge of power system modeling, power flow, and dynamics.
• Familiarity with ISOs/RTOs, transmission owners, developers, the end-to-end interconnection process, NERC TPL standards, regional reliability standards, and utility or ISO/RTO planning criteria.
• Familiarity with PSS/E, PSLF, TARA, PSCAD, or similar tools and their scripting interfaces.
• Experience using Python for engineering analysis or workflow automation and experience using AI to automate power system study tasks.
• Over three years of experience in interconnection or transmission planning studies for a U.S. region, including experience on a transmission planning team at a utility, ISO/RTO, developer, or consulting firm.
• Project experience in NERC TPL contingency studies, steady-state thermal and voltage analysis, short-circuit analysis, dynamic stability, or EMT simulation.
• Experience proposing and testing network upgrade solutions, estimating costs, modeling and debugging inverter-based resources, or working on large-load data center studies.
• Strong ownership, technical accuracy, attention to detail, issue investigation, limitation recognition, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience at a software company or collaborating with software development teams.
• Experience leading projects and mentoring junior engineers.
• Hands-on experience with short-circuit, dynamic stability, and EMT studies.
• Deep understanding of the end-to-end interconnection study process in a U.S. region.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work with flexibility and work-life balance.
• Lean, fast-moving, mission-driven environment emphasizing bold thinking, reliability, radical transparency, scrappiness, continuous learning, and meaningful impact in the energy sector.
• Professional development through training, mentorship, and career pathing.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance starting on day one; short- and long-term disability and basic life insurance at no cost.
• 401(k) plan with a 4% match and flexible PTO.