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As demand for computing skyrockets, access to energy has become the defining bottleneck in the AI infrastructure race. While leading tech companies invest billions in speculative, long-term solutions that may take decades to arrive, GridCARE's Energize™ platform uses physics-based AI to identify and activate gigawatts of hidden capacity in today's electric grid - enabling hyperscalers, data center developers, and utilities to power AI infrastructure years sooner than conventional approaches and without costly upgrades.\nFounded at Stanford's Doerr School of Sustainability, GridCARE has assembled a world-class team spanning power systems, AI, and infrastructure, and is backed by leading climate-tech and deep-tech investors.\nAt GridCARE, you will:\nWork at the intersection of AI, energy, and infrastructure - the foundation of the next industrial revolution.\nPartner with hyperscalers, developers, and utilities on high-impact, real-world deployments.\nHelp shape a more abundant, efficient, and resilient energy future for the digital era.\nJoin a company defining a new category - Power Acceleration for AI.\nReceive competitive compensation, equity, and benefits in a fast-growth, mission-driven environment.\nLearn more about GridCARE:\nTechCrunch: GridCARE thinks more than 100 GW of data-center capacity is hiding in the grid\n\nUtility Dive: Portland General Electric invests in AI-powered flexibility to speed data-center connection\n\nGridCARE Raises $64 Million Series A to Create a New Category: Power Acceleration\n\nGridCARE Named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for AI Power Innovation\n\nThe Role\nWe're hiring a Senior Distribution Planning Engineer to own GridCARE's distribution planning workstreams.\nYou'll perform distribution power system analyses - power flow studies in CYME and equivalent tools - and build out the planning workflows behind them, aligning distribution results with GridCARE's analyses and platform. You'll have engineering support, but you own the discipline: the methodology, the standards, and execution with utility engagements. Potential to build out a team of distribution engineers as the company and engagements grow.\nResponsibilities\nPerform distribution and subtransmission power system analyses: power flow, hosting capacity and load-serving studies, contingency and reconfiguration analysis, voltage and thermal limits, and protection considerations.\n\nBuild out GridCARE's distribution planning workflows end to end - model setup, data intake standards, study criteria, QA, and deliverables.\n\nAlign distribution analyses with GridCARE's tools, analyses, and platform, including how distribution findings connect to transmission-level work.\n\nAssess which flexibility resources can be credited as capacity at the distribution level - batteries, on-site generation, volt/VAR control, feeder reconfiguration.\n\nEstablish planning criteria, documentation, and validation practices that align with utility distribution planning processes.\n\nPartner with Product and AI/ML teams to translate distribution planning methodology into repeatable and scalable platform capability.\n\nLead technical review sessions with utility planners and address utility concerns on data, criteria, and methodology.\n\nTravel at least several times a year for in-person utility engagements and conferences.\n\nQualifications\nRequired\n6-8+ years work experience, including distribution or subtransmission planning.\n\nExperience inside a utility distribution planning department.\n\nHands-on ownership of distribution planning studies: power flow, capacity and load forecasting, contingency and reconfiguration analysis, hosting capacity, voltage and protection studies, and capital planning justification.\n\nStrong working fluency in CYME or Synergi\n\nWorking knowledge of DER interconnection standards and state interconnection rules (IEEE 1547, CA Rule 21 or equivalent).\n\nFamiliarity in Python, and comfort working directly with large, imperfect datasets using power system tool APIs and scientific computing packages (pandas, numpy, etc.).\n\nBS in Electrical Engineering.\n\nPreferred\nMS in Electrical Engineering; PE license.\n\nExperience with large-load or data center interconnection at distribution or subtransmission voltages.\n\nExperience with multiple distribution modeling tools (CYME, Synergi, WindMill, OpenDSS, ETAP) and GIS-based network models.\n\nExperience working across multiple utility territories and regulatory environments.\n\nDemonstrated use of AI tools in technical engineering work, with sound judgment about their limits.\n\nFamiliarity with machine-learning approaches to power system analysis and how to validate them.\n\nExperience building planning methodology or standards from scratch.\n\nLocation\nRedwood City, CA - 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