System Protection Engineer
Pacific Gas & Electric
Fresno, CA · Posted November 6, 2026
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About the job
Requisition ID # 174667
Job Category: Engineering / Science
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Business Unit: Energy Delivery
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Location: Fresno
Department Overview
The hardworking coworkers of Electric Engineering ensure all manners of electric engineering—including electric standards and process safety, electric design engineering, instrumentation testing and controls, undergrounding, electric regulatory compliance and electric investment planning—are in place to safely enable a strategic and stable workplan for our Electric Operations partners. Our organization is accountable for program planning, financial budgeting, and project execution and delivery of all electric engineering projects. Electric Engineering is comprised of approximately 2,000 coworkers.
Position Summary
This job is represented by Engineers and Scientists of California (ESC) subject to collective bargaining.
This is a journey-level protection engineer job that requires executing routine protection duties with minimal assistance This position requires a moderate level of training, direction and review of work from more senior engineers and peers. This job is responsible for providing technical protection engineering for routine projects and maintenance/operation support including, but not limited to, issuing protection requirements, relay and automatics settings, processing clearances, and investigating relay operations.
This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory
PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, collective bargaining agreements, and internal equity.
The annual salary range is:
CA Minimum, $120,888
CA Maximum, $193,020
Job Responsibilities
May perform all the functions of Associate System Protection Engineer and in addition:
Provide guidance to peers and lower-level engineers
Perform protection job duties for transmission voltages 230 kV and below
Handle special and complex projects, such as localized special protection scheme and MPAC
Perform protection job duties for distribution voltages
Handle special and complex projects, such as localized special protection scheme, fast distribution bus pickup scheme, tie cable, Switchgear IPAC, etc.
Participate in development of design standards, new tools and new relay schemes
Qualifications
Minimum:
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited curriculum in the US or the equivalent from outside the US
3 years of cumulative experience in the field of system protection
Desired
Active California PE license
Ability to calculate relay settings for all station automatics schemes, transmission line relaying, transformer bank protection, bus protection, generator protection, and breaker failure schemes
Thorough computer application and fault analysis program knowledge
Knowledge of symmetrical component theory and ability to perform fault calculations.
Basic understanding of logic gate theory and control circuitry
Knowledge of electric system protection equipment, instrumentation and test procedures
Ability to analyze relay operations and determine fault locations
Interprets applicable codes, industry standards and regulations and educates others