Expert IGP Solutions Engineer

Requisition ID # 172934 

Job Category: Engineering / Science 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Strategy & Growth

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

The Strategy and Growth functional area is dedicated to long-term strategic and infrastructure planning. With electricity demand expected to double over the next 15 years, we’re building an energy system of the future for the world’s fourth-largest economy. It includes Energy Policy and Procurement, Strategy and Innovation, Integrated Long-Term Planning, and the Commercial Growth Organization.  

Position Summary

Join PG&E's Integrated Grid Planning (IGP) team and help develop innovative tools and software solutions at the forefront of utility analytics and integrated investment planning.

In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, asset engineers, risk engineers, technology experts, regulatory professionals, and business subject matter experts, to design and implement data-driven solutions that enable the evolution of IGP processes and deliver critical business outcomes.

The ideal candidate is an engineer or data scientist who combines strong analytical capabilities with critical thinking, adaptability, and a passion for solving complex, emerging challenges. You are comfortable navigating ambiguity, developing innovative approaches, and translating ideas into scalable solutions.

This is an excellent opportunity to expand your technical and business expertise while gaining a comprehensive view of one of the nation's most advanced smart grids. You will play a key role in shaping how data, analytics, and technology support investment decisions that improve safety, reliability, affordability, and customer outcomes.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need.

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job.  The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity.  Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​

A reasonable salary range is:​

Bay Area Minimum: $​140,000

Bay Area Maximum: $​238,000

Job Responsibilities

• Advances utility risk analytics by studying, evaluating, and improving risk models that inform investment decisions and support enterprise risk management objectives.
• Leads and supports analytical work across Integrated Grid Planning (IGP), including circuit-based investment planning, portfolio optimization, scenario analysis, and data-driven decision support.
• Translates regulatory requirements into actionable engineering solutions by understanding the utility regulatory landscape, synthesizing regulatory direction, and partnering with stakeholders to implement compliant and effective planning processes.
• Mentor teams of engineers and analysts with diverse backgrounds.
• Independently develops and executes new practical solutions to highly complex problems. 
• Develops relationships within our partner functional areas to assess client business interests
• Continually identifies and executes business or technical process improvements.
• Leads and manages projects and programs independently which includes developing and executing on innovative, novel, and complex solutions with high financial impact to PG&E and/or the client by taking ownership of scope, schedule, budget and communications.
• Oversees assembly of technical systems and prototypes according to engineering standards and knowledge of related principles.
• Is recognized as a subject matter expert in IGP and offers breadth of knowledge and performs analysis and executes projects across several disciplines and functional areas to include developing test plans and procedures from scratch.
• May provide expert opinion or information related to projects or other issues to external customers, agencies or other parties.
• Recognized outside the company as an expert on a particular engineering/technical field or discipline.  Represents PG&E and speaks at conferences or seminars.  May write articles in trade journals. Influences industry developments.
• Prepares and delivers presentations and recommendations to clients based on project results/findings. Capable of adjusting message for variety of audiences from field operations to senior leadership
• Exercises independent judgment in leading and resolving problems of large impact, scope and complexity with few precedents or standards requiring integration of information from a variety of sources.  Assesses business conditions, identifies opportunities, and develops projects & solutions from a multifunctional or multidisciplinary perspective.
• Continually identifies testing or process improvements.
• Develops, evaluates and deploys new technologies.  Identifies innovations and cost-reduction potential of new and existing technologies.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with emphasis in a discipline related to assignments. (i.e., mechanical, civil or electrical engineering, etc.)
• Job-related experience, 7 years

Desired:

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Data Science, Operations Research, Statistics, Risk Analytics, or a related quantitative field.
• Experience applying data analytics, modeling, and decision-support techniques to solve complex business or engineering challenges.
• Knowledge of utility risk analytics, risk-informed decision making, and investment planning methodologies.
• Familiarity with electric utility planning, transmission and distribution systems, asset management, or grid modernization initiatives.
• Experience working with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and other California regulatory agencies, including translating regulatory requirements into actionable business and engineering solutions.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and develop innovative approaches to emerging challenges.
• Proven ability to collaborate across engineering, regulatory, risk, analytics, and technology organizations.
• Experience developing data-driven tools, models, dashboards, or software solutions that improve business processes and decision-making.
• PE-Professional Engineer license
• Travel required; frequency depends on assignment (approx 10%)