Transmission Planning Engineer - Steady-State, Contingency & Transfer Studies | PSSE, PowerWor

Travel: Approximately 10%. Remote employees should be able to travel periodically to the Denver office, including a longer onsite period during onboarding, as well as occasional conferences or other business travel. KORE1, a nationwide provider of staffing and recruiting solutions, has an immediate opening for a Transmission Planning Engineer – Steady-State, Contingency & Transfer Studies | PSSE, PowerWorld OR PSLFAs a Senior Transmission Planning Engineer, you will join the Product Team of a growing energy technology company and bring hands-on transmission planning expertise to the continued development and application of an innovative grid-planning software platform. This is an opportunity for someone who knows how transmission planning is performed today but is interested in rethinking traditional processes and helping develop next-generation approaches to grid planning. This is not a software development role. You are being hired for your transmission planning expertise and your ability to apply that knowledge to a software product. You will help shape workflows, features, and user stories in partnership with Product and Software Development teams, but you are not expected to develop the software yourself. This is also not a management or orchestration role. We are looking for someone who is actively doing the work—building and running studies, analyzing results, engaging directly with utility clients, and thinking critically about how existing planning processes could be improved. Roughly half of your time will be spent running studies using the company's software and engaging directly with utility clients on projects and proofs of concept. The remainder will be split between innovating on planning processes and identifying opportunities for software improvement, as well as supporting pre-sales demonstrations and technical conversations with prospective users. These client engagements are an important part of the role. You will work directly with utilities to understand their planning challenges, perform studies using the platform, communicate results, and use what you learn to help inform the continued evolution of the product. You will work closely with Software Development, Product, and Customer Success teams to ensure the platform's transmission planning capabilities reflect real-world utility practices, regulatory standards, and emerging grid challenges. A background in consulting or professional services is particularly attractive, given the experience it provides organizing studies end-to-end, working across diverse client environments, coordinating with other technical professionals, and communicating directly with utility stakeholders. Strong candidates coming directly from utilities and ISO/RTO environments are also encouraged.

What You'll Do: Build and refine integrated transmission planning workflows, with particular emphasis on steady-state system planning, contingency analysis, transfer capability, economic/congestion assessment, and base-case development Conduct transmission planning studies using the company's software in partnership with utility clients, helping solve real-world planning challenges and demonstrate new approaches to traditional planning processes. Translate utility and ISO/RTO planning requirements—including regional/system planning, generator interconnection, congestion analysis, and related planning processes—into clear product and modeling requirements. Build, validate, condition, and review transmission planning cases and perform standard steady-state analyses. Prototype and help define automation solutions for large network simulation studies, including case building and conditioning, contingency definition development, screening tools, results analysis automation, and related workflows. Advise on network representation, data requirements, modeling approaches, and study assumptions to promote consistency and quality across models. Identify opportunities to improve or automate existing transmission planning processes and provide subject matter expertise to help translate those opportunities into software capabilities. Contribute transmission planning expertise to product user stories, feature requirements, and roadmap discussions in collaboration with Product and Software Development. Collaborate with software engineers to implement and test new functionality, validate releases, and maintain high modeling quality standards. Support customer engagements through technical discussions, trainings, project delivery, study execution, and presentation of results. Serve as a transmission planning SME during pre-sales demonstrations and prospective client conversations, helping utility stakeholders understand how the platform can address their planning challenges. Collaborate with internal experts across transmission, distribution, and generation and develop enough familiarity with adjacent planning domains to support integrated planning discussions. Stay current on relevant industry standards, regulatory requirements, and planning practices, including NERC, WECC, ERCOT, MISO, PJM, ENTSO-E, grid modernization, and emerging integrated planning approaches. You will have the opportunity to work with a culturally diverse and multidisciplinary team and be part of a growing company whose mission is focused on enabling the energy transition and helping utilities plan for the future.

About You: The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience: Bachelor's degree in a STEM discipline required, with Electrical Engineering/Power Systems strongly preferred. Candidates with another relevant STEM degree may be considered based on their power-systems experience and qualifications. A PE license is a strong plus and may strengthen an otherwise relevant non-EE background. Approximately 4–5+ years of hands-on transmission planning experience at a utility, ISO/RTO, consulting, or professional services organization is preferred. Exceptional candidates with less experience may be considered, particularly where advanced education, consulting experience, or unusually strong hands-on study experience accelerates their level of expertise. Demonstrated experience personally conducting transmission planning studies rather than primarily managing or overseeing others performing the work. Strong knowledge of steady-state system planning, including contingency analysis, transfer capability studies, economic/congestion assessments, and base-case model development. Integrated resource/system planning experience is a strong plus and will be particularly valuable in this role. Generator interconnection study experience is valuable, but candidates whose experience is limited primarily to interconnection studies may not have the broader system-planning background required for the position. Hands-on experience with at least one primary industry transmission planning platform. PSSE, PowerWorld, or PSLF are preferred. Power Factory and TARA can provide relevant supplemental experience; however, experience limited solely to TARA is not sufficient for this role. PSCAD and Aspen OneLiner experience are useful additional qualifications but are not substitutes for hands-on experience with a broader transmission planning platform. Familiarity with transmission planning standards and processes, including NERC TPL compliance, regional transmission planning, interconnection queue studies, and long-term system planning. Candidates do not need to have independently owned TPL compliance documentation if they have meaningfully participated in the underlying analysis. Strong client-facing communication skills, with the ability to independently discuss study requirements, conduct technical conversations with utility stakeholders, present results, and communicate complex planning concepts to both engineering and non-engineering audiences. Ability to organize and execute studies end-to-end, including understanding the business or planning problem, determining an appropriate study approach, coordinating necessary inputs, performing the analysis, and communicating results. Interest in challenging and improving traditional transmission planning processes rather than simply executing established workflows. Comfort working closely with product and software engineering teams and translating real-world planning needs into ideas for workflows, functionality, and product improvements. Scripting, workflow automation, or similar experience is a plus, with Python preferred, but no software development background is required. Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills, with the ability to grasp and communicate complex technical concepts. Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. Curiosity about adjacent planning domains such as distribution and generation and comfort working within a small, cross-functional environment where responsibilities and areas of expertise naturally overlap.

Preferred Qualifications: Consulting or professional services experience performing transmission planning work for multiple utility or energy clients. Integrated planning experience spanning transmission and adjacent grid-planning domains. Experience with production cost modeling software. Experience developing or automating transmission planning study workflows. PE license. This credential is viewed as a value-add in both business development and software product development contexts. For Colorado-based candidates, the expected base salary range for this position is $100,000–$140,000 per year, depending on experience, skills, and qualifications. The position may also be eligible for company stock options/equity. Specific equity structure and terms will be discussed as appropriate during the interview and offer process.