# Protection Engineer - Hydro & Pumping

The Opportunity Ulteig is seeking a qualified System Protection Engineer to serve as a technical lead on protective relay projects, compliance studies, and related work within the Automation, Integration, and System Protection (AISP) Department. This position is responsible for designing, developing, testing, and commissioning protection and control systems, primarily for hydroelectric facilities and associated substations, while also providing broader support across Ulteig’s system protection engineering initiatives. This role requires periodic travel throughout California to support field activities, which may include site walkdowns, commissioning, troubleshooting, demolition and construction support, and other related tasks. Candidates must be based in California and willing to travel statewide, and occasionally out of state, as project needs require. What You'll Do Develop complete design packages for protective relay replacement projects that include one-line diagrams, three-line diagrams, panel layouts, electrical schematics, wiring connection diagrams, communication diagrams, and other associated deliverables. Perform field demolition and construction support, lead on-site c

- **Id**: 3277925
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ulteig-protection-engineer-hydro-pumping>
- **Role**: Energy
- **Role family**: Energy
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-05T20:59:53Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T21:31:10Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 35
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8634
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule, Veteran hiring program
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Engineering Services

## Company

- **Id**: 1836279
- **Name**: Ulteig
- **Domain**: ulteig.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ulteig>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: UltiPro

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.857
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 20
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 122100
- **Max**: 165400
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 165400

## Technologies

- **AutoCAD** — Optional: yes
- **Copilot** — Optional: yes
- **ETAP** — Optional: yes
- **Microsoft Office** — Optional: yes
- **NERC CIP** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 35

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-26T15:28:14Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 32
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.705
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 34
- **Expected fill days**: 20
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 165400
- **Is top pay**: yes

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