Graduate Electrical Engineer

Job Description

Graduate Electrical Engineer | Ulteig

The Tone:
This is an early career opportunity at Ulteig, requiring candidates to be based in California and willing to travel statewide. Ulteig is a purpose-driven company focused on transforming the world’s critical infrastructure by engineering essential systems across power, renewables, transportation, and water sectors. This role is crucial for supporting protective relay replacement projects and contributing to broader system protection engineering initiatives, directly impacting the reliability and safety of vital infrastructure.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: California (Hybrid/Travel)
• Pay: $79700–$107900 yearly
• Team: Automation, Integration, and System Protection (AISP) Department, reporting to a lead engineer
• Mission: Support protective relay replacement projects and advance system protection engineering initiatives.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), Copilot/GenAI prompting

What You’ll Actually Do
• Design Packages: Develop or assist with complete design packages for protective relay replacement projects, including one-line diagrams, three-line diagrams, panel layouts, electrical schematics, and communication diagrams.
• Field Support: Perform field demolition and construction support, on-site commissioning activities, and troubleshooting for protective relay replacement projects under supervision.
• Engineering Principles: Apply protection system engineering practices and principles to various components like transmission lines, buses, transformers, capacitor banks, reactors, feeders, generators, motors, and communication-assisted protection schemes.
• Settings and Analysis: Develop relay settings files, create or update calculation worksheet templates, develop test plans, and perform protection system event analysis under supervision.
• SCADA and HMI: Create SCADA point lists, remote terminal unit (RTU) programs, human-machine interfaces (HMI’s), meter programs, metering overviews, and calculations under supervision.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Early career professional with a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET-accredited program or equivalent.
• Experience: No specific years required, but must have permanent authorization to work in the U.S.; internship experience is preferred.
• Skills: Successful completion of the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam or the ability to obtain it within one year of hire, proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), and experience with Copilot/GenAI prompting.
• Travel: Willingness to travel 20–30% of the time statewide within California and occasionally out of state, supported by a valid driver’s license.
• Bonus: Electrical power systems coursework preferred.