Staff Electricity Market Optimization Software Engineer

Job Description Summary

In this role, you will work closely with a team of 8-15 people who are responsible for enhancing, evolving, and supporting large on-premise highly-available Electricity Market Management System (MMS). The team includes power systems, database, software, and optimization engineers.
As a Staff Electricity Market Optimization Software Engineer, you will contribute and lead advanced Power Systems Application software design, development, testing, integration and tuning to meet project and/or product commitments. The projects mainly consist of developing power system features for Electric Utilities, Independent System Operators (ISOs) and Transmission System Operators (TSOs).

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

In this role, you will:

• 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

Basic Qualifications:

• Ph. D. or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering with thesis or related work in power systems OR in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• A Six (6) to Eight (10)years of experience in Power systems Analysis, or Security Constrained Unit Commitment and Economic Dispatch using Mixed Integer Programming (MIP).

Desired Characteristics:

Technical Expertise:

• PhD in Electrical Engineering with thesis or related work in power systems, plus Three (6) years of experience in development or project delivery experience in Power System applications or 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.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new software development practices, languages, and tools.
• Self-starter; comfortable pulling together information from multiple resources. 

Leadership:

• 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.

Personal Attributes:

• 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 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.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. GE may agree to sponsor an individual for an employment visa now or in the future if there is a shortage of individuals with particular skills.
• Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen
• 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.

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Additional Information

The salary range for this position is $125,600 USD -$188,400 USD. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate’s experience, their education, and the work location. In addition, this position is eligible for a performance bonus. Available benefits include be Health, Medical, 401K, and Paid Leave.

Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach, a 24/7 nurse-based resource; and access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE 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 planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness.

General Electric Company, Ropcor, Inc., their successors, and in some cases their affiliates, each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a “Sponsor”). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace, or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor’s welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual