SW Engineer Specialist - Production Cost

Job Description Summary Consulting Services is seeking a Software Engineer to advance our long-term power system planning software, with a focus on production cost modeling. In this role, you will contribute towards development of advanced capabilities inform multi-decade investment decisions for generation, transmission, storage under evolving reliability, economic, and decarbonization requirements. You will collaborate closely with our power system experts and software engineers to translate complex planning methodologies into scalable, reliable, and transparent software. Job Description Key Responsibilities Design, implement, and maintain software modules for production cost planning, including generation, storage, and transmission operating decisions. Support multi-region and inter-regional planning with long-term temporal and spatial resolution. Implement and improve large-scale optimization models, develop approaches for scenario analysis, sensitivity analysis, and long-horizon uncertainty. Build maintainable, well-tested, and well-documented code for production-grade planning tools. Design modular architectures that allow new technologies, policies, and constraints to be added over time. Improve runtime performance and memory efficiency for large datasets and long planning horizons. Integrate capacity expansion results with downstream models, Ensure data traceability and reproducibility of planning results. Collaborate with domain experts to validate model behavior and assumptions. Clearly communicate technical concepts and modeling results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Contribute to documentation and user-facing explanations of model logic and limitations. Required Qualifications 3-5 years of experience with bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, or a related field Strong programming skills in Python, Java, C# or similar. Familiarity with software engineering best practices (version control, testing, code reviews). Must be willing to learn and develop software in Fortran. Experience developing optimization-based models or large-scale analytical software. Ability to work with large datasets and complex model inputs. Preferred Qualifications Experience with power system planning, energy markets, or grid modeling. Familiarity with production cost, capacity expansion, resource adequacy, or long-term planning frameworks. Knowledge of renewable energy, storage, transmission planning, or decarbonization policy. Additional Information Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes Addressing the climate crisis is an urgent global priority and we take our responsibility seriously. That is our singular mission at GE Vernova: continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to help decarbonize it. If we want our energy future to be different…we must be different. Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World. www.gevernova.com