Senior Excitation Engineer - Nuclear Remote Eligible, U.S - GE Vernova

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Nuclear Fleet Strategy: Define the long-term technical roadmap for excitation systems in the global nuclear fleet, including obsolescence management, digital upgrades, and life-extension programs.
• Regulatory & Compliance Leadership: Ensure all excitation designs and modifications strictly adhere to nuclear regulatory requirements and internal Nuclear Quality Management Systems.
• High-Consequence Problem Solving: Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for complex, high-priority system disturbances in nuclear facilities, ensuring that solutions prioritize both plant availability and safety-critical stability.
• Advanced Grid-Nuclear Interaction: Direct advanced modeling and simulation to analyze the interaction between large-scale nuclear baseload generation and evolving grid codes, ensuring the fleet’s continued stability.
• Consulting SME: Provide expert-level consulting to the Commercial and Sales teams for multi-million dollar nuclear retrofit tenders, ensuring technical feasibility and risk mitigation.
• Knowledge Preservation: Institutionalize decades of excitation domain expertise by mentoring Staff and Lead engineers for nuclear excitation engineering. Provide guidance and leadership in developing documentation standards.
• Design Authority: Lead formal design reviews for New Product Introductions (NPI) and custom nuclear applications, ensuring rigorous verification and validation (V&V).

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (Master’s or PhD strongly preferred).
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in power generation engineering, with at least 5–8 years specifically focused on excitation systems or mission-critical power plant controls.
• Exposure working within a Nuclear Safety Culture and navigating nuclear-specific quality and documentation standards.
• Deep knowledge in synchronous generator theory and power system stability.
• Strong systems engineering capability with the ability to lead complex, cross-functional integration efforts across excitation controls, generator systems, plant interfaces, and nuclear operational requirements.

Eligibility Requirements

• The work location for this role is Longmont, CO (relocation assistance provided if not already local).
• This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. If applicable, final offers will be contingent on ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.
• Ability to travel globally (up to 25%) to support outages, customer design reviews, and regulatory audits (For Remote candidates, travel would require up to 50% travel).

Desired Characteristics

• Minimum of 15 years of exp