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- Open in the current public read path; this is not an employer guarantee.Last observed November 12, 2026
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- Employer-provided pay
Job Description
Location: Rochester, NY; or Binghamton, NY.
Key Responsibilities
- General responsibilities include assisting in the development of P&C engineering standards, relay setting file templates, and engineering tools.
- Conducts engineering analysis, researching industry papers and manuals.
- As a senior engineer, this position grants autonomy to propose solutions to open-ended challenges but requires the engineer to work mostly autonomously.
- The senior engineer is expected to lead engineering projects and facilitate meetings with other P&C engineers, other departments, contractors, and vendors.
- Authoring engineering standards and presenting to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Participate in the evaluation of new vendors and technologies.
- Engineers in the Philosophy and Standards group often are requested to work on special one-off projects. Past examples include overhauling arc flash calculation methods, evaluating the feasibility of distribution switching stations, evaluating new substation designs.
- Active projects include engineering AVANGRID’s first IEC 61850 Process Bus Substation, evaluating Virtualized Protection Relays, expanding relaying laboratories (including use of an RTDS), conducting studies, updating engineering standards, creating internal engineering training courses, and writing conference papers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equal and greater than 5 (five) years of experience in electrical substations, transmission systems, distribution systems operations up to 345kV, or protection and control design and construction
- Due to the open-ended nature of the department’s responsibilities, an intuitive understanding of electrical engineering fundamentals is required. This includes transformer basics, reactive power, power flow, electrical losses, and digital logic.
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering preferred.
- Professional Engineering (PE) license preferred.
- Experience with SEL, GE, and Siemens relays.
- Experience or knowledge in the following areas is preferred: IEC 61850 (GOOSE Data Models, Sampled Values, MMS), networking, real time digital simulators (RTDS), virtualized protection relays, and centralized substation protection.
- Develop self & others
- Empower to grow
- Collaborate and share
- Be a role model
- Focus to achieve results
- Be agile
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- #LI-office
Benefits & Perks
- Competitive benefits and growth opportunities
- Generous performance‑based bonuses
- 12% 401(k) match
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Professional development and clear career‑advancement pathways
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