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Energy Systems Research Engineer Intern

GridmaticCupertino

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As an intern, you’ll work with Gridmatic’s research engineers on electricity market simulation, directly supporting SCUC/SCED development. Responsibilities: • Develop/maintain network security analysis (NSA) to produce reliability constraints across large-scale ISO systems • Assist in building and validating SCUC/SCED models, with realistic transmission and contingency constraints. • Help automate NSA for integration into market optimization workflows. • Support data processing pipelines for network, generator, and market datasets across ISOs (ERCOT, PJM, CAISO, etc.) • Experiment with machine learning approaches to accelerate dispatch or contingency evaluation. • Document results, highlight performance gaps, and propose improvements Qualifications: • Enrolled in EE, or Energy Systems (MS or PhD student) • Coursework in power system operations (unit commitment, economic dispatch, OPF) • Familiarity with power flow and network modeling • Solid programming skills in Python • Comfort with optimization formulations (linear, MILP) • Strong problem-solving skills and eagerness to learn real-world ISO practices Bonus Skills: • Experience with SCUC/SCED formulations in research or coursework • Exposure to market data from ISOs (bids, constraints, outage/contingency reports) • Familiarity with probabilistic or ML-based methods

Energy Systems Research Engineer Intern

Gridmatic

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