The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) applies cutting-edge technology to operating a reliable electricity system, managing competitive markets for wholesale electricity, and planning for the Empire State's energy future.  The NYISO’s Market Structures department invites applications for a full-time Senior Market Solutions Engineer to join our team.

The Senior Market Solutions Engineer will lead the electric power system model used by the scheduling and dispatch software. The Senior Market Solutions Engineer will develop and apply a working knowledge of the New York State high voltage transmission system and the network model database software to support the NYISO market and security functions. Additionally, this individual will lead the real-time power system analysis, primarily the EMS software applications and BMS software applications, as well as the development and evolution of the Energy Management Systems (EMS) and Energy Market Systems (BMS). The Senior Market Solutions Engineer will also lead the development and evolution of the Smart-Grid application software. Strong Power Systems or Electrical Engineering with power system software and/or mathematical optimization knowledge is desired for this position.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the evolution of the Smart-Grid applications software.
• Responsible for maintaining EMS and Phasor Data Acquisition and Control systems integration
• Ensure integrity of Smart-Grid application software by development and implementation of Business Owner Quality Assurance procedures.
• Develop and design Smart-Grid application software requirements to support the ISO PMU application functions in coordination with NY Transmission Owners and neighboring control areas.
• Provide Power System Operations Dispatcher support and Operator training for all Smart-Grid applications such as, ePDC, RTDMS (Server and Client), ePDE and Grid-Smarts.
• Develop and Design software and operating procedures to address special market and operating conditions.
• Lead and Coordinate the Energy Market Operation and Grid Operation personals in new Market Design initiative or new Network model projects including the new EMS/BMS platform.
• Work collaboratively across the NYISO organization (Market Structure, Market Operations, Grid Operation, Information Technology, and Market Mitigation & Analysis departments) in the design and implementation of market product enhancements.
• Lead and Coordinate Factory Acceptance or Site Acceptance Testing for new Market Design initiative or new Network Model projects including the new EMS/BMS platform.
• Develop a strategy for regression test for new Market Design initiative or new Network Model projects to ensure the correct market outcomes including the new EMS/BMS platform.
• Provide direction on software evolution of the EMS, BMS applications and Data Engineering Tool.
• Define and lead studies of future market products and technologies by prototyping and simulations, using historical data or other sound technical approaches, to validate the completeness and accuracy of requirements, robustness of the available technology, evaluate the potential market outcomes and consumer impacts, consider potential market behavioral risks and to confirm that all applicable compliance objectives are met by the requirements.
• Provide advanced operations and market solutions for NYISO
• Provide solution and technical leadership in consultation with vendors
• Develop mathematical models for all EMS and BMS projects in the organization
• Provide technical leadership to prepare market enhancements in response to the Stakeholders and Regulators
• Lead testing efforts of Capacity Market Operations including development of resource adequacy models, capacity auction models, capacity expansion models and capacity accreditation models.  
• Support and maintain the PMU applications such as stand-alone visualization software and EMS based Voltage Stability Monitoring (VSM).    
• Provide technical support to Market Monitoring, IT Quality Assurance and Stakeholder Service in replying to Market Participant questions for all aspects of Market Solutions Engineering.     
• Provide technical support to Market Validation team to validate scheduling and pricing outcomes in the markets.   
• Provide implementation support to the product teams by reviewing requirements documents, reviewing design notes from vendors and developing User Acceptance test plans for deployment of enhancements and new features to production.   
• Support external research engagements for the NYISO and actively support research engagements under the direction of Manager, Market Solutions Engineering.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

None.

EDUCATION

PhD degree in Electrical Engineering or closely related fields (i.e. ​​Operations Research, Economics, other Engineering disciplines) strongly desired.  Master's degree required. Coursework and/or demonstrated exposure to electricity market and grid operations required.

EXPERIENCE

• Five to seven years’ experience in the areas of Electrical Engineering and/or Operations Research with software simulation experience is preferred.
• Experience using computer programs such as Energy Management Systems, Security Constrained Unit Commitment (SCUC) and Real-Time Scheduling (RTS), Grid View, GE-MAPS, PROMOD, Modeling Language for Mathematical Programming like AMPL, MATLAB or GAMS is highly desirable.
• Strong Python programming skills and a working knowledge of shell scripting and Linux command line is required.
• Background in models and databases used in power system analyses, and business experience in electric power systems or wholesale electric markets are desired, or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

None required.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures or government regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, vendors, Market Participants and the general public.

Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.

Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems. Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, etc.) in its most difficult phases. Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.

Intermediate competency in Windows operating environment using MS Office applications, database spreadsheets, e-mail and internet programs. Working knowledge of UNIX desired.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit and use hands to perform routine office tasks. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Contact with staff and public will occur. Travel may be required to attend and/or conduct meetings, conferences and training. This position may require work on nights, weekends or holidays.

At the NYISO, we realize the importance of balancing the availability of remote work with the inherent value of bringing people together to attain success in the areas of maximum collaboration, relationship building and growth, teamwork, innovation and problem solving, as well as professional development and mentoring. In this role, you will be required to work onsite from our Rensselaer, NY location several days per workweek, with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. You will also be expected to respond to all business needs that may require any increase to the regular onsite requirements.

The NYISO takes pride in recruiting, developing and retaining highly talented individuals. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a comprehensive benefits package and innovative reward programs.

All offers of employment will be made contingent upon the successful completion of a drug screening and background check.

The NYISO is an Equal Opportunity Employer and as such, does not discriminate in its hiring or employment practices.

The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) applies cutting-edge technology to operate a reliable electricity system, manage competitive markets for wholesale electricity, and plan for the Empire State's energy future.  The NYISO’s Market Structures department invites applications for a full-time Senior Economist to join our team.

As Senior Economist within NYISO’s Market Design department, you will be a key leader shaping the structure of New York’s wholesale electricity markets. Leveraging advanced econometric methods and microeconomic analysis, you’ll collaborate with stakeholders—including regulators, market participants, and NYISO leadership—to develop innovative market rules that align reliability, economic efficiency, and public policy goals. You will have the opportunity to lead in-depth research, guide cross-functional teams, and influence significant market design evolutions that support New York’s markets, clean energy transition, and reliability.

Successful candidates will be self-motivated professionals who demonstrate effective analytical skills, strong decision making and problem-solving skills, and good judgment within a team-based environment.  They must exhibit excellent communication skills and have prior successful experience managing multiple competing priorities. Successful candidates will demonstrate thorough knowledge of and experience with statistical and econometric techniques and principles of economic theory, such as marginalism, game theory and efficient-market hypothesis.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES

• Analyze NYISO markets to identify potential market design flaws and opportunities for improvements in both market effectiveness and efficiency. Such analysis will focus on market outcomes as they relate to various system conditions, market participant behavior, reliability needs and public policies.
• Analyze market evolution recommendations to determine their feasibility and their potential effectiveness to achieve desired Lead the internal evaluation of MMU market design recommendations.
• Lead the development of product-based solutions to problems identified or recognized needs for increased functionality or effectiveness. Lead the development of techniques to analyze energy market data and economic data relevant to NYISO markets.
• Prepare market design concept reports including conclusions from analysis and recommendations for solutions.
• Perform assessments and compile results of impacts to New York consumers from new market solutions.
• Assist in efforts to ensure that the market vision and market design documents remain current and reflects future design opportunities under consideration.
• Mentor and assist Market Design staff on the regulatory history of electricity markets in the United States and New York, and the current market rules. Mentor and provide guidance on Market Design concepts and robust analysis design to Market Design Staff
• Review, assess and develop position papers for Stakeholders capturing market design features of other ISO/RTO markets.
• Monitor national trends and federal, state, and local (NYC) regulatory policies and prepare position papers for NYISO senior management on the potential impacts to and opportunities for NYISO markets.
• Represent NYISO in industry forums and conferences as an independent, unbiased source of information on the design and operation of the wholesale markets in New York.
• Develop potential solutions and market enhancements to further evolve the NYISO markets in order to enhance system reliability, grid resilience, and market efficiency.
• Drive the analysis using prototyping techniques to test market evolution recommendations to determine their feasibility and effectiveness in achieving desired outcomes.
• Perform, and/or direct external resource performance of, economic and statistical analysis to evaluate market design proposals with a focus on market efficiency improvements and market participant behavior.
• Act as a liaison between Market Design and the NYISO market focused business units by facilitating joint markets and business strategy that would inform the creation of the annual master and strategic plans.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Economics or related field required. Master’s degree (MA, MS, MBA) in Economics or related field strongly preferred; Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Economics or related field beneficial.
• Seven to ten years related experience; or equivalent combination of education, training and experience in knowledge of electric power utility industry and/or competitive markets, market operations, market economics; or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to read, analyze and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports and legal documents.
• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from market participants, regulatory agencies or members of the business community.
• Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format.
• Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups and/or boards of directors.
• Ability to apply mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations permutations, derivatives and integration. Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory and factor analysis. 
• Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems. Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, musical notes, etc.,) in its most difficult phases.  Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.
• Intermediate competency in Windows operating environment using MS Office applications, e-mail and internet programs.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.  The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit and use hands to perform routine office tasks.  The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.  Contact with staff and public will occur.  Travel may be required to attend and/or conduct meetings, conferences and training.­­­­­­­­­­­­ This position may require work on nights, weekends or holidays.

The NYISO offers the flexibility to work both in the office and remotely, providing our employees with an enhanced work life balance. While the majority of the responsibilities of this role can be performed remotely, in most cases, employees will have periodic on-site requirements based on business needs. 

The NYISO takes pride in recruiting, developing and retaining highly talented individuals. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a comprehensive benefits package and innovative reward programs.

All offers of employment will be made contingent upon the successful completion of a drug screening and background check.

The NYISO is an Equal Opportunity Employer and as such, does not discriminate in its hiring or employment practices.

The NYISO’s Market Solutions Engineering team invites applications for a full-time Market Solutions Engineer.

The Market Solutions Engineer will support the electric power system model used by the scheduling and dispatch software. This individual will develop and apply a working knowledge of the New York State high voltage transmission system and the network model database software to support the NYISO market and security functions. Additionally, the Market Solutions Engineer will support the real-time power system analysis, primarily the EMS software applications and BMS software applications, the development and evolution of the Energy Management Systems (EMS) and Energy Market Systems (BMS), and the development and evolution of the Smart-Grid application software. Strong Power Systems or Electrical Engineering with power system software and/or mathematical optimization knowledge is desired for this position.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support and maintain the PMU applications such as stand-alone visualization software and EMS based Voltage Stability Monitoring (VSM).
• Responsible for maintaining EMS and Phasor Data Acquisition and Control systems integration. 
• Ensure integrity of Smart-Grid application software by development and implementation of Business Owner Quality Assurance procedures. 
• Develop and implement PMU application functions in coordination with NY Transmission Owners and neighboring control areas. 
• Provide Power System Operations Dispatcher support and Operator training for all Smart-Grid applications such as, ePDC, RTDMS (Server and Client), ePDE and Grid-Smarts.
• Develop and maintain software and operating procedures to address special market and operating conditions. 
• Work collaboratively with Energy Market Operation and Grid Operation personnel in new Market Design initiative or new Network model projects including the new EMS/BMS platform. 
• Perform the development of the documentation to support new Market Design initiative or new Network Model projects including the new EMS/BMS platform. 
• Perform Factory Acceptance or Site Acceptance Testing for new Market Design initiative or new Network Model projects including the new EMS/BMS platform. 
• Perform regression test for new Market Design initiative or new Network Model projects to ensure the correct market outcomes including the new EMS/BMS platform. 
• Provide direction on modifications to the Unit Commitment program to support the additional market functionality to the Mixed Integer Process (MIP) solution. 
• Provide technical support to Energy Market Operation, Market Validation, Market Monitoring, IT Quality Assurance and Stakeholder Service in replying to Market Participant questions for all aspects of Market Solutions Engineering.
• Support testing efforts of Energy Market Operations including development of Unit Acceptance Test plans for projects affecting the energy market software.  
• Support testing efforts of Capacity Market Operations including development of resource adequacy models, capacity auction models, capacity expansion models and capacity accreditation models.  
• Support and maintain the PMU applications such as stand-alone visualization software and EMS based Voltage Stability Monitoring (VSM).    
• Provide implementation support to the product teams by reviewing requirements documents, reviewing design notes from vendors and developing User Acceptance test plans for deployment of enhancements and new features to production.   
• Support external research engagements for the NYISO and actively support research engagements under the direction of Manager, Market Solutions Engineering.

EDUCATION

Bachelor's degree (BS) in Electrical Engineering or related technical field required; Course studies in power systems, electrical engineering, power system components (generation and transmission equipment, concepts and principles) and mathematical modeling of power system components required; Master’s degree (MS) in Electrical Engineering desired.

EXPERIENCE

Three to five years’ experience in the areas of Electrical Engineering and/or Operations Research with software simulation experience is preferred. Experience using computer programs such as Energy Management Systems, Security Constrained Unit Commitment (SCUC) and Real-Time Scheduling (RTS), Grid View, GE-MAPS, PROMOD, Modeling Language for Mathematical Programming like AMPL, MATLAB or GAMS is highly desirable. Strong Python programming skills and a working knowledge of shell scripting and Linux command line is desirable. Background in models and databases used in power system analyses, and business experience in electric power systems or wholesale electric markets are desired; or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

None required.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures or government regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, vendors, Market Participants and the general public. 
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations. 
• Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems. Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, etc.) in its most difficult phases. Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.
• Intermediate competency in Windows operating environment using MS Office applications, database spreadsheets, e-mail and internet programs. Working knowledge of UNIX desired. 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit and use hands to perform routine office tasks. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Contact with staff and public will occur. Travel may be required to attend and/or conduct meetings, conferences and training. This position may require work on nights, weekends or holidays.

The NYISO takes pride in recruiting, developing and retaining highly talented individuals. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a comprehensive benefits package and innovative reward programs.

The NYISO offers the flexibility to work both in the office and remotely, providing our employees with an enhanced work life balance. While the majority of the responsibilities of this role can be performed remotely, in most cases, employees will have periodic on-site requirements based on business needs. Full remote opportunities may be available in some cases.

All offers of employment will be made contingent upon the successful completion of a drug screening and background check.   

 The NYISO is an Equal Opportunity Employer and as such, does not discriminate in its hiring or employment practices.