Transmission Planning Engineer – Steady-State, Contingency, Transfer Studies

This Senior Transmission Planning Engineer role focuses on steady-state, contingency, and transfer studies using grid-planning software, translating utility needs into repeatable product workflows. The work is hands-on and applied to transmission planning analysis rather than software development or management.

Responsibilities

• Build and refine integrated transmission planning workflows, with emphasis on steady-state system planning, contingency analysis, transfer capability, economic and congestion assessment, and base-case development.
• Execute transmission planning studies using the company’s software in collaboration with utility clients, helping address real planning challenges with new approaches to traditional study processes.
• Translate utility and ISO/RTO planning requirements, including regional and system planning, generator interconnection, congestion analysis, and related processes, into clear product and modeling requirements.
• Build, validate, condition, and review transmission planning cases and perform standard steady-state analyses.
• Prototype and help define automation solutions for large network simulation studies, including case building and conditioning, contingency definition development, screening tools, results analysis automation, and related workflows.
• Advise on network representation, data requirements, modeling approaches, and study assumptions to support consistency and modeling quality across cases.
• Identify opportunities to improve or automate existing transmission planning processes and provide subject matter expertise to translate those improvements into software capabilities.
• Contribute transmission planning expertise to product user stories, feature requirements, and roadmap discussions with Product and Software Development.
• Collaborate with software engineers to implement and test functionality, validate releases, and maintain modeling quality standards.
• Support customer engagements through technical discussions, training, project delivery, study execution, and presentation of results.
• Act as a transmission planning SME during pre-sales demonstrations and prospective client conversations to help utility stakeholders understand how the platform addresses planning needs.
• Collaborate with internal experts across transmission, distribution, and generation to support integrated planning discussions.
• Stay current on relevant industry standards, regulatory requirements, and planning practices, including NERC and major regional frameworks such as WECC, ERCOT, MISO, PJM, and ENTSO-E, as well as grid modernization and emerging integrated planning approaches.
• Work directly with utilities to understand planning challenges, perform platform-based studies, communicate results, and apply learnings to guide continued product evolution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline required, with Electrical Engineering and Power Systems strongly preferred.
• PE license is a strong plus and may strengthen an otherwise relevant non-EE background.
• Approximately 4–5+ years of hands-on transmission planning experience at a utility, ISO/RTO, consulting, or professional services organization preferred.
• Demonstrated experience personally conducting transmission planning studies, not primarily managing or overseeing others.
• Strong knowledge of steady-state system planning, including contingency analysis, transfer capability studies, economic and congestion assessments, and base-case model development.
• Integrated resource or system planning experience is a strong plus.
• Hands-on experience with at least one primary industry transmission planning platform; PSS®E, PowerWorld, or PSLF are preferred.
• Experience limited solely to TARA is not sufficient.
• PSCAD and Aspen OneLiner experience are useful additional qualifications but are not substitutes for hands-on experience with a broader transmission planning platform.
• Familiarity with transmission planning standards and processes, including NERC TPL compliance, regional transmission planning, interconnection queue studies, and long-term system planning (independent ownership of TPL documentation is not required if meaningful participation in the underlying analysis is demonstrated).
• Strong client-facing communication skills, including independent discussion of study requirements, technical conversations with utility stakeholders, presentation of results, and clear communication of complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to organize and execute studies end-to-end, including understanding the planning problem, selecting an approach, coordinating inputs, performing analysis, and communicating results.
• Interest in challenging and improving traditional transmission planning processes rather than only executing established workflows.
• Comfort working closely with product and software engineering teams and translating real-world planning needs into ideas for workflows, functionality, and product improvements.
• Scripting or workflow automation experience is a plus, with Python preferred; no software development background required.
• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Curiosity about adjacent planning domains such as distribution and generation, and comfort working in a small, cross-functional environment where responsibilities overlap.

Technologies

• PSS®E
• PowerWorld
• PSLF
• PowerFactory
• TARA
• PSCAD
• Aspen OneLiner
• Python

Location, Travel, and Work Style

• Work location: Hybrid remote in Edgewater, CO 80214.
• Edgewater, Colorado (Denver metro) preferred; remote candidates within the U.S. will be considered.
• Local candidates who can collaborate regularly in the office are preferred, though onsite work is not required for an otherwise strong candidate.
• For remote candidates, Mountain Time or nearby U.S. time zones are preferred to support collaboration with the Denver and Germany-based teams.
• Travel: Approximately 10%.
• Remote employees should be able to travel periodically to the Denver office, including a longer onsite period during onboarding, plus occasional conferences or other business travel.

Salary and Benefits

• Salary range: USD 89,852 to 140,000 per year.
• Pay listed: $89,852.57 - $140,000.00 per year.
• Potential company stock options or equity may be available.
• Benefits include: comprehensive medical insurance with PPO, HMO, and HDHP options (dependent coverage available), dental insurance, vision insurance, life and AD&D insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), and Health Savings Account (HSA) for eligible HDHP enrollment.
• Time off: generous paid time off and holiday schedules.
• Retirement: 401(k) with company contribution and 401(k) matching.
• Additional benefits listed: 401(k), 401(k) matching, health insurance, life insurance, paid time off.

Preferred Qualifications

• Consulting or professional services experience performing transmission planning work for multiple utility or energy clients.
• Integrated planning experience spanning transmission and adjacent grid-planning domains.
• Experience with production cost modeling software.
• Experience developing or automating transmission planning study workflows.
• PE license.