Senior Lead Engineer — Grid Code Testing
Lead grid code testing engagements end-to-end. Scope confirmation through dossier approval. EMTP-RV / PSS®E familiarity required. Bilingual EN/ES. Spanish-native writing preferred.
We are the engineers global utilities, IPPs and OEMs call when they need it done right. 30+ GW of electrical capacity evaluated across field and dynamic-modeling work. Plants from 1 MW to 1 GW. Wherever your clients' assets operate.
Most engineering jobs in the power industry involve a desk, a spreadsheet, and a phone call. Some of ours do too. But the work that makes GCE what it is happens in plants — on substation platforms, at switchyards, in control rooms, watching transient recorders during first energization, walking a unit to its reactive ceiling at 3 AM because that's when the grid lets us.
We are the independent technical authority that ENGIE, Iberdrola, AES, Mitsubishi Power, Wärtsilä, Siemens, Acciona and New Fortress Energy trust for grid code testing, dynamic model validation, plant performance, BESS compliance, and regulatory filings. We don't sell equipment. We don't represent a manufacturer. The only deliverable we ship is the technical truth — defensible under regulator review, transparent under audit, authored in the language the regulator reads.
That work needs engineers who can read a Código de Red chapter, set up a Rogowski coil at 256 samples per cycle, defend a query response in front of CENACE, and write the dossier section in clean Spanish all in the same week.
Most of our engineers grow across these — the boundaries are soft, and the same person who runs an AVR step test in March might author the dossier section in May. These are the shapes a career here takes, not job-description silos.
Lead the on-site execution of grid code, plant performance and BESS compliance test campaigns. Instrumentation setup, real-time judgment under live operating conditions, coordination with the system operator.
Validate dynamic models against field measurements. EMTP-RV, PSS®E, DIgSILENT, ETAP. Author the regulator-facing model and defend it through query response.
Author the regulator submission — multi-deliverable dossier, native-language technical writing, portal navigation (SAPPSE / ONS-Web / CEN / XM / COES / ANRE / WERA), query defense through approval.
Own a full engagement end-to-end. Scope, procedure authoring, field campaign, model validation, dossier, defense. Mentor junior engineers. Client-facing.
We hire on a mix of technical depth, field comfort, language fluency and rigor. Below is the profile we keep seeing in the engineers who thrive. Not every candidate has every one of these — but the ones who do tend to find this work fits them.
Electrical engineering degree, ideally with coursework or work experience in synchronous machines, transmission, protection coordination. Not just OEM-trained — can read a grid code chapter from scratch and reason from first principles.
Both, professionally. Portuguese or Arabic is a plus for LATAM and MENA expansion. We write the dossier in the language the regulator reads — that requires real bilingual technical writing, not translation.
HSE-disciplined, comfortable around live equipment, willing to travel. Most of the work is on-site at power plants. Hard hats, hi-vis, fall protection, live substation walk-downs. Some of it is overnight or weekend.
The work has to defend in front of a system operator's technical reviewer. The dossier has to be right the first time or the project schedule slips. We need engineers whose default is "show your work, traceable to the calibration certificate".
For modeling-track engineers: working knowledge of at least one of EMTP-RV, PSS®E, DIgSILENT, ETAP. For field-track engineers: ability to read what the modeling team produces. The two sides have to talk.
We are vendor-neutral by design. We don't take OEM commissions. The engineers who succeed here are the ones whose loyalty is to the regulatory standard, not to a manufacturer relationship.
Compensation is competitive — we won't be the highest-paying option in the market, and we won't pretend otherwise. What we offer is a depth of technical work that's hard to find anywhere else in the region.
Every engagement is on a working power plant approaching commercial operation. Not simulations. Not training scenarios. Real units at real reactive ceilings.
Experience across GE, Alstom, Mitsubishi, Siemens, Solar Turbines, Caterpillar, Jenbacher, Fuji, Foster Wheeler, Toshiba. Combined cycle, combustion engines, steam, gas, biogas, BESS.
Mexico is the anchor. Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Morocco, Saudi Arabia are the next chapters. International deployment is part of the path, not a perk.
Senior engineers who have run hundreds of test campaigns. Direct mentorship, technical reviews, and dossier coaching.
We pay for the editing time it takes to write technical documents in the language the regulator reads. Your writing skills will improve here.
Mexican statutory benefits plus private health, paid vacation above the minimum, professional development budget, equipment for field deployment.
We're not actively hiring at the moment, but we're always interested in meeting strong engineers. The roles below are the positions that typically open in our practice — when a new engagement lands or a team expands, this is where we look first. If your background fits one of these, send us your CV to be considered for upcoming vacancies.
Lead grid code testing engagements end-to-end. Scope confirmation through dossier approval. EMTP-RV / PSS®E familiarity required. Bilingual EN/ES. Spanish-native writing preferred.
On-site execution of ASME PTC heat-rate and capacity test campaigns. Instrumentation setup, data analysis, dossier authoring. Mexico-focused with LATAM travel.
EMTP-RV, PSS®E, DIgSILENT model validation against field measurements. Author regulator-facing model packages. Defend through query response.
Author BESS compliance dossiers per IEEE 2800, Mexican Manual de Interconexión, Chilean NTSyCS. SAPPSE portal navigation. Growing market.
Different background but still interested? Send your CV to careers@gridcode.com. We keep a running shortlist of strong candidates and reach out when an aligned role opens.
The process is structured but not slow. Most positions move from initial application to offer within four to six weeks. We don't have an algorithmic screen — every CV is read by an engineer.
Read by an engineer on the team, not an HR filter. Response within 5 business days regardless of outcome.
30 minutes with the hiring lead. Career background, what you're looking for, what we're hiring for, mutual fit.
90 minutes with two senior engineers. Power systems, field methodology, a sample dossier excerpt to discuss. Bilingual.
One day shadowing an active engagement on site (or remote review for modeling-track roles). Mutual evaluation.
Offer letter, compensation, equipment provisioning, onboarding plan. First deployment within four weeks of start.
We respond to every application within five business days. If your CV is in Spanish, send it in Spanish. If in English, send it in English. If you have published technical writing — internal reports, regulator submissions, dossier sections — include a sample.