Jobs at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL)

Lead engineering projects for substation design, manage technical applications of SEL solutions, mentor staff, and ensure environmental safety compliance.

Manage full life-cycle electrical engineering projects including proposal, design, installation, commissioning, and close-out. Lead design of protection, automation, and communications systems, train and support customers, create functional design specs, stabilize project delivery against scope/schedule/budget, and support proposals and cross-functional sales/marketing activities.

As a Network Engineer for Power Systems, you will provide technical support, teach customers, and improve power system automation through innovative solutions. Responsibilities include managing communications systems and troubleshooting SEL products.

The Senior Automation Engineer will lead automation projects, design control logic, mentor teams, and interact with customers to deliver solutions for power systems monitoring and control.

Lead strategic sales for SEL's cyber services to electric utilities: qualify opportunities, perform technical demonstrations, develop accounts, influence product direction, lead pricing and executive-level commercial discussions, and travel ~50%.

Lead and develop a production team, enforce SEL values and safety, manage upstream/downstream product flow, provide training and performance management, apply root cause analysis and continuous improvement to resolve quality issues, maintain work instructions and documentation.

Lead the design and verification of IEC 61850 communication and automation capabilities in SEL products, mentoring cross-functional teams and providing system-level support.

Develop and maintain full stack applications: design, implement, and test frontend (React/TypeScript) and backend (C#/ASP.NET) components, produce specs and test documentation, collaborate with cross‑functional teams including firmware engineers, follow QA and engineering best practices, and contribute to high‑quality UI/UX. On-site in Charlotte, NC; background and drug screening required.

As a Senior Automation Engineer, you will develop and maintain automation solutions for power systems, lead projects, program PLC and SCADA applications, and support quality assurance checks while traveling 25% of the time.