Energy Data Acquisition Specialist (Telemetry and Revenue Metering)

Location: Folsom, California, United States; hybrid or fully remote

Salary: $41.25–$57.75 per hour

Company

hirify.global operates California’s high-voltage power grid and wholesale electricity market, managing reliable electricity delivery across 25,865 circuit-miles of transmission lines.

What you will do

• Configure, test, implement, and maintain revenue metering and telemetry equipment, processes, and technical standards.
• Interface with generators, developers, engineering companies, utilities, inspectors, and meter inspection organizations on power-generation and ISO market requirements.
• Troubleshoot designs, configurations, and non-compliant telemetry or revenue-metering issues; research and implement technical solutions under tariff and BPM requirements.
• Support Full Network Model builds, New Resource Implementation deliverables, resource certification, and commercial operation timelines.
• Coordinate ancillary-services resource testing, analyze test data, and maintain the resource testing database.
• Support the control center by monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving real-time telemetry issues; provide guidance and maintain technical documentation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, or experience in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Technology, or a related field, plus two or more years of related experience.
• Experience with utility-industry metering, including installation or programming of revenue-grade meters and development of meter-data collection solutions.
• Experience using test equipment in high-voltage substations and generating plants, including watt-hour test kits, burden testers, and phase-sequence indicators.
• Knowledge of electrical metering instrumentation, current transformers, voltage transformers, capacitive-coupled voltage devices, applicable regulations, standards, codes, and engineering principles.
• Knowledge of SCADA software and telemetry technology; basic understanding of telecommunications software, hardware, circuitry, and WAN applications.
• Ability to configure analog modems and apply engineering concepts to electrical drawings, calculations, specifications, ISO standards, and protocols.
• Understanding of AC/DC electrical theory using algebra and trigonometry, generator types, their participation in ISO markets, and system impact.
• Strong written, verbal, documentation, analytical, deductive-reasoning, decision-making, interpersonal, conflict-resolution, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and under tight deadlines, influence others without direct authority, facilitate teamwork, and use Microsoft Office Suite proficiently.

Nice to have

• Experience as a utility-industry meter technician or engineer.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position with hybrid or fully remote work arrangements.
• Work in a 24/7 grid-operations environment supporting reliable electricity delivery.
• Collaborate with internal teams, market participants, utilities, engineering firms, inspectors, and control-center personnel.