EPRI is an independent, nonprofit energy research and development organization founded in 1972. Working with more than 450 companies across 45 countries, EPRI develops and applies research to advance clean, safe, reliable, affordable, and equitable electricity. Its work spans nuclear energy, generation, power delivery, decarbonization, grid modernization, and other low-carbon energy resources.
Senior Transmission Planning Technical Leader
Lead advanced transmission planning research and develop Python automation at EPRI, an energy research organization. Support grid studies, long-term planning, and recommendations for stakeholders.
Description
- Research complex technical and scientific topics with significant impact
- Advance methods for transmission planning and long-term system planning
- Assess future grid needs amid load growth, changing resources, extreme weather, and regulatory shifts
- Build planning workflows that connect analytical tools and automate studies
- Strengthen study reproducibility and support better planning decisions
- Carry out studies in transmission planning, reliability, resilience, and interconnection
- Create long-range scenarios and assess transmission needs across planning horizons
- Use power system simulation, optimization, probabilistic analysis, and risk-based planning
- Build Python automation for planning studies
- Advance automated planning workflows, including possible agentic AI applications
- Combine findings on transmission reliability, resource adequacy, production costs, interconnection, and long-term transmission planning
- Recommend technical approaches and planning strategies to utilities, ISO/RTOs, and other stakeholders
- Present methods, findings, and recommendations to engineering, management, regulatory, and executive audiences
- Contribute to proposals, project delivery, research, technical reports, and industry engagement
- Share strategies and results with program members, prospective members, and external stakeholders
- Coordinate work across EPRI programs
- Oversee project teams and track technical and financial milestones
- Coordinate external and cross-department work to deliver projects and products on time and within budget
- Help plan and deliver complex projects
- Prepare and present research reports, technical findings, and practical recommendations
- Manage budgets and resources for small or medium, less complex projects
- Work with national and international technical networks
- Contribute to proposals and new promotional work
- Identify research and service opportunities that fit EPRI’s mission and capabilities
- Guide and mentor junior staff
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or equivalent experience
- Background in transmission planning, reliability, resilience, interconnection, risk-based planning, or integrated system planning
- Experience with power system simulation, optimization, production cost, resource adequacy, or probabilistic assessment
- Proficiency in Python or similar tools for automating technical studies and analytical workflows
- Familiarity with utility, ISO/RTO, regulatory, and stakeholder planning processes
- Familiarity with agentic AI and its potential applications in power system planning workflows is strongly preferred
- EPRI uses E-Verify to check the work status of new hires
Benefits
- Annual incentive program
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) plan
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Paid family leave
- Life and accident insurance
- Paid time off, including flexible vacation, sick leave, and holidays