{"id":2952902,"url":"https://alion.io/job/electric-power-engineers-power-systems-optimization-engineer","title":"Power Systems Optimization Engineer","company":{"id":9364,"name":"Electric Power Engineers","domain":"epeconsulting.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/electric-power-engineers","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"iCIMS","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"middle","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Austin, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":73000,"max_usd":134000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":4330},"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":true},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":true},{"name":"Pytest","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-20T20:39:32Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-20","last_verified_at":"2026-10-31T04:18:56Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":10,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":10},"description":"Overview\nWe are designing the grid of the future!\nBe a part of an innovative team shaping the grid of the future through advanced energy intelligence. For more than half a century, Electric Power Engineers (EPE) has partnered with power and energy clients across the globe, providing consulting expertise and energy intelligence software solutions for complex engineering and grid modeling challenges. As leaders in the renewables space, we are focused on building a modern, secure, and resilient grid. Join us in making an impact on the communities we serve and the environment in which we live. Together we can transform the future of energy.\nResponsibilities\nJoin us in leading the change!\nWe are seeking a Power Systems Optimization Engineer to join the EPE software team. This role pairs transmission planning expertise with mathematical optimization to solve some of the hardest problems in grid planning: selecting least-cost, technically sufficient mitigation portfolios and quantifying their economic value.\nYou will design, prototype, and productionize optimization methods for problems that are large, non-linear, and mixed-integer by nature, such as choosing which network upgrades, storage, or operational measures resolve violations across many scenarios and contingencies. You'll work closely with planners, software developers, and product owners to turn these methods into reliable tools inside our planning platform.\nHow you can make an impact:\nMitigation portfolio optimization: Formulate and solve problems that select least-cost combinations of transmission upgrades, storage, reconfiguration, and other mitigations to resolve thermal, voltage, and stability violations across multiple cases, seasons, and contingencies. \nEconomic analysis: Build methods for cost allocation, benefit-cost and production-cost-informed evaluation, and comparison of alternative portfolios to support planning and interconnection decisions. \n Non-linear & mixed-integer modeling: Develop MILP/MINLP formulations, AC/DC power flow relaxations and linearizations (e.g., DC/PTDF, LODF, SOCP), decomposition approaches (e.g., Benders), and heuristics that scale to large real-world systems. \nAlgorithm development to production: Prototype in Python, validate against full AC power flow results from industry tools, and work with developers to deploy methods as robust, scalable services. \nValidation & benchmarking: Verify that optimized portfolios solve the violations when re-simulated; quantify optimality gaps, runtime, and sensitivity to assumptions. \n Collaboration: Partner with transmission planners to capture real-world constraints (lead times, outage feasibility, cost estimates, planning criteria) and translate them into model constraints and objectives. \nClient support & communication: Explain optimization results, trade-offs, and assumptions to engineers, clients, and stakeholders; support onboarding and tailored deployments. \nDocumentation: Write methodology papers, model formulations, and validation reports that help engineers and clients trust the results. \nQualifications\nBring your passion, here's what’s needed:\nMaster's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, or a related field, with a focus on power systems and/or optimization. A Bachelor's with equivalent experience will be considered. \n3+ years of experience applying optimization to power systems problems (e.g., transmission expansion planning, optimal power flow, unit commitment, resource or portfolio planning), in industry or research. \nStrong foundation in mathematical optimization: linear, mixed-integer, and non-linear programming, convex relaxations, and decomposition methods. \nProficiency in Python and at least one optimization modeling framework (e.g., Pyomo, JuMP, CVXPY, PuLP, gurobipy) and commercial or open-source solvers (e.g., Gurobi, CPLEX, Xpress, HiGHS, Ipopt). \nSolid understanding of power flow, contingency analysis, and transmission planning concepts, including the US transmission system and ISO/RTO structures. \nStrong communication skills: able to explain complex models, assumptions, and results to engineers and non-technical audiences. \nExcellent problem-solving skills, especially in diagnosing infeasibility, numerical issues, and scaling challenges in large models. \nPreferred Qualifications:\nHands-on transmission planning or interconnection study experience (steady-state, short circuit, dynamic stability) using tools such as PSS/E, PSLF, PowerWorld, TSAT, or TARA. \nExperience with transmission expansion planning, network upgrade cost allocation, or interconnection cluster studies (e.g., SPP DISIS, MISO DPP, PJM cycle studies). \nExperience with production cost or capacity expansion models (e.g., PLEXOS, PROMOD, GridView, Aurora, PowerSIMM) and economic planning metrics (APC, adjusted production cost, benefit-cost ratios). \nExperience with stochastic or robust optimization and scenario-based planning under uncertainty. \nFamiliarity with power systems optimization packages (e.g., PowerModels.jl, pandapower, PyPSA, MATPOWER). \nSoftware engineering practices: Git, testing (pytest), code review, and deploying models in cloud or distributed environments. \nKnowledge of machine learning methods used to accelerate optimization (e.g., surrogate models, warm-starting, constraint screening). \nPublications or open-source contributions in power systems optimization. \nBe a part of an innovative team shaping the grid of the future through advanced energy intelligence. For more than half a century, Electric Power Engineers (EPE) has partnered with power and energy clients across the globe, providing consulting expertise and energy intelligence software solutions for complex engineering and grid modeling challenges. As leaders in the renewables space, we are focused on building a modern, secure, and resilient grid. Join us in making an impact on the communities we serve and the environment in which we live. Together we can transform the future of energy.\nHow we support you:\nComprehensive health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, and vision with 100% premium coverage for you\nGenerous PTO and paid holidays\nMyShare Employee Ownership Program\nWork with industry leaders\n401K, up to a 4% match (100% vested from day 1)\nLocation: This position will be Remote.\nTravel: Occasional travel may be needed (10% or less)\n\nEPE is an equal opportunity/AA/Disability/Veteran employer. The EEO is the Law poster, and its supplement are available using the following links: EEOC is the Law Poster\n\nThird-Party Recruiting Notification\nEPE does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters. Any unsolicited third-party resumes forwarded by recruiters to EPE via our career page or to any of our managers or employees will be considered public information, may be treated as a direct application from the person identified in the resume, and will not be eligible for placement fee payment to the agency. 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