Design Engineer – Dynamic Studies and Modeling

🔥 14 hours ago

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote

💵 $93.8k - $126.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🟡 Mid-level

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Ulteig

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1944

⚡ Energy

Energy • Renewables • Transportation

Ulteig is a North American infrastructure engineering, technical services, and consulting firm that delivers design, digital tools, and advisory services for critical lifeline sectors. The employee-owned company supports public and private clients on power and utility-scale renewable energy projects, transportation planning and infrastructure, and water sector work—offering engineering design, SCADA/EMS solutions, project-development services, and decision-support software to help manage complex, multidisciplinary projects.

📋 Description

• The Design Engineer develops and tests renewable energy models, performs dynamic system studies, supports interconnection applications, and collaborates with clients to meet evolving grid and compliance requirements. • Develop PSSE, PSLF, TSAT and PSCAD models of renewable plants • Perform model quality tests and model benchmarking for various software models. • Understand dynamic model block diagrams and tune parameters to meet regional model performance requirements. • Support interconnection applications; tasks include preliminary plant design, assemble simple preliminary drawings, and completing application forms with design information • Conduct some preliminary system studies, like reactive power studies. • Work closely with the developer clients to understand their needs, deadlines, changes in design and address feedback from the system operator/transmission owner. • Understand and stay apprised of updates with various regional requirements for interconnection applications, processes, deadlines and queue schedules. • Respond quickly to customer design changes, questions and deadlines, and maintain a flexible attitude towards the work. • Stay current with regulatory changes, new grid codes, and evolving ISO/RTO requirements related to grid interconnections. • Conduct voltage and frequency ride through studies, and support model validation for renewable projects to support NERC compliance standards. • Stay up to date on new industry guidance and standards for modeling and NERC compliance for relevant technologies • Help develop tools to automate and streamline model quality tests and analyses

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering required, ABET accredited program, or equivalent required • A minimum of 2 years of working experience, with at least 1 years of experience directly related to power systems • Experience with steady-state analysis and/or dynamic analysis utilizing PSS®E and PSCAD • Prior experience working with/for transmission system operators/transmission owners (ERCOT, PJM, MISO, CAISO, etc.) is preferred. • Experience with PSCAD, PSLF and TSAT modeling is preferred. • Experience with programming in Python preferred • Independently completes assigned tasks required • Actively manages individual workload, adapts to changing requirements, maintains flexibility • Must be a self-starter and willing to identify improvements and implement them, utilizing support from others • Must be comfortable asking questions to team when learning new skills • Must be analytical, self-motivated, and possess the ability to work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a positive, enthusiastic attitude • Excellent presentation and verbal/written communications skills • Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills with the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff, management, clients and external agencies • Demonstrates openness to innovation by embracing and applying evolving technology and AI tools to enhance workflows, solve problems, and drive continuous improvement • Must have authorization to work permanently in the U.S

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible Workplace • Employee Ownership • Competitive Pay • Comprehensive Benefits Package • Collaborative Environment • Innovative Culture