Hybrid Staff Electrical Engineer

at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

• Job title: Staff Electrical Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $113,740 - $150,647 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chicago, United States

About the role

• Staff Electrical Engineer ensuring continued innovation at S&C Electric Company. Working on diverse projects to advance electrical grid reliability and safety.

Responsibilities

• Represent the engineering customer when developing protection software, providing requirements and guidance to software developers
• Test the software embodiments of protection algorithms to ensure they meet the needs and expectations of the customer, including the use of real-time hardware-in-the-loop simulators
• Build support for developing novel protection solutions by promoting them to stakeholders within S&C and to potential customers of S&C
• Author technical papers and present at technical conferences
• Participate in and contribute to working groups of professional associations such as IEEE PSRC and CIGRE
• Research future customer needs through literature review, conferences, discussions with colleagues and external customers, and participation in industry activities

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, a master’s degree or higher is preferred
• 10 years of relevant industry or academic experience after earning a Bachelor’s degree
• At least 2 years of industry experience planning distribution system protection
• Programming experience (any language)
• Well versed in concepts such as time-current coordination, ground and negative sequence protection, fuse saving and sequence coordination, fuse-recloser coordination
• Proficient in distribution protection software tools such as CYMDIST, CYMTCC, and Synergi Electric
• Experienced in configuring protection relays using the relay’s setup software such as acSELerator QuickSet, IntelliLink Setup Software, DIGSI, or EnerVista
• Familiar with protection relay testing and event analysis
• Proven ability to work independently, take initiative, and collaborate with colleagues
• Professional engineer license (preferred but not required)
• Contribution to research and development (R&D) activities (preferred but not required)
• Product management experience (preferred but not required)
• Working with communication networks, to include Ethernet, peer-to-peer and mesh radio, cellular, and fiber (preferred but not required)
• Designing and testing configurable logic using DNP3, IEC 61850, or IEC 60870-5-104 (IEC 104) (preferred but not required)

Benefits

• Health and Welfare Benefits: Medical & Prescription, Dental, Vision, Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Account (HSA), Group Life Insurance, optional Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance, Wellbeing Resources including Employee Assistance Program and Family Forming Benefits (i.e., Adoption and Fertility support)
• Leave Benefits: Vacation Time, Sick Time, Paid Holidays and Company Shutdown days, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Other Leaves, Paid Parental Time and Military Leave
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) Retirement Savings and Employee Stock Ownership Plan (KSOP) offering traditional and Roth 401(k) options and an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) component; KSOP participants can receive annual ESOP company contributions of over 11% of eligible earnings (3% Core, up to 3.5% Match, Variable Periodic).