Power Systems Engineer (Substation, Transmission, Interconnection)

Remote • Contract • via Mercor

About this role

Role overview

Mercor is hiring power systems engineers with recent hands-on industry experience to review and annotate complex electrical engineering tasks. You will assess realistic design and study scenarios and produce clear written technical findings.

What you will do

• Review tasks across substation design, transmission design, and generation interconnection: circuit and control design, switchgear and protection, single-line diagrams, and power distribution

• Check engineering assumptions, calculations, code and standards use, and equipment data

• Flag ambiguity, missing constraints, and unrealistic deliverables

• Produce clear written findings

Requirements

• Recent hands-on experience as a power systems professional in one or more of: substation design, transmission design, or generation interconnection. This is mandatory.

• Minimum 1 year of relevant industry experience

• Circuit design depth: protection and controls, switchgear, power distribution, and the associated calculations

• Experience at an EPC contractor, utility, transmission owner, power generation developer, ISO/RTO, or owner's engineering group

• Your resume should clearly show relevant power systems experience

Details

• Approximately 10 to 20 hours per week initially

• Immediate start

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

Details

• Pay: $70/hr
• Company: Mercor
• Location: Remote
• Eligible locations: Worldwide (no restriction)
• Platform: Mercor