Grid Innovation Delivery Intern - Remote Grid Engineering

Requisition ID # 170674 

Job Category: Administrative / Clerical 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Strategy & Growth

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Team Summary: Grid Innovation Delivery 

Spend your summer with PG&E’s Grid Innovation Delivery (GID) team and help us make the grid of the future a reality!  

The Grid Innovation Delivery team scales new innovative technologies and solutions into standard tools and products that PG&E utilizes to deliver for our hometowns and serve our planet. The team is a bridge between early R&D innovation efforts and established operational organizations. Grid Innovation Delivery (GID) executes a comprehensive set of activities to successfully deploy and operate new technologies and concepts including solution strategy, identification and development of deployments, new process creation, IT system integration, solution standardization and post-deployment field operations & maintenance. The team steers towards quickly scaling new technology programs into a well-documented, sustainable and mature state that can achieve long term success within PG&E’s existing lines of business. 

Remote Grid (RG) is the GID team’s cornerstone program. Remote Grids cost-effectively address wildfire risk by serving customers with fully islanded (24/7/365) microgrids of solar, batteries, and fuel-powered generation. Once built, PG&E permanently removes the high-risk overhead power lines. The GID team deployed and currently operates nine RGs with plans to grow the fleet to two dozen in the next two years. See the RG Program page here, as well as media coverage from the PG&E newsroom here. 

Position Summary: Summer Internship 

The Grid Innovation Delivery team is seeking a curious, tenacious college student to join us for the summer of 2026. We’re looking for someone eager to learn about California’s energy system and who is interested to work with cutting‑edge tools, including generative AI, to advance engineering processes and support the scalable deployment of new technologies that serve customers and reduce wildfire risk. You’ll be asked to help us craft the scope of your internship in your first weeks on the job to make sure that your summer experience at PG&E meets your goals and interests. 

You’ll join a collaborative team of 13 individuals with varied backgrounds spanning engineering, policy, product management, process improvement, and more. This intern will work directly within GID’s Deployment team where Grid Innovation Engineers serve as project engineers for Remote Grid projects, own the technical execution to PG&E standards, develop new standards and process documentation to mature the program, and support Operations and Maintenance (O&M) performance analytics and root cause investigation.   

This position is hybrid with the expectation of working in PG&E’s General Office in downtown Oakland, CA approximately 2 days per week.

PG&E is providing the hourly rate 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 hourly rate 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, and internal equity.

The hourly rate for this position ranges from $24.52 to $29.81.

Responsibilities 

This position will have the opportunity to support many aspects of the Grid Innovation Engineers’ work, including electrical design and cross-functional elements such as project management, project development and data analytics. You’ll learn about the Remote Grid technology (solar, battery, generator standalone power systems), engineering approaches to assess feasibility of remote grids, and PG&E’s associated standards and processes. You’ll participate in regular standups and working meetings as we work with teams across PG&E to improve the Remote Grid program. You’ll also complete individual work related to the assessment, design and sizing of Remote Grid systems. You also will have the opportunity to innovate and contribute by using Generative AI to support engineering processes and development of tools. You’ll be asked to provide a final presentation to close out your internship and to share with Grid Innovation Delivery about your learnings, accomplishments, and recommendations for how we can improve. 

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Qualified candidates are pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Engineering at an accredited University
• Students must be continuing their education towards degree during and/or after the internship
• Must have reliable transportation to and from work location

Desired: 

• Electrical Engineering preferred 

• Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint 

• Coursework and/or experience with data analytics 

• Coursework and/or experience with Generative AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot / Google Gemini or other similar AI tools 

• Minimum two years of college completed   

• Demonstrated interest in today’s energy landscape and how it’s shaped by regulatory and market forces  

• Demonstrated interest in sustainability and climate resilience 

• Demonstrated interest in new technology and product development 

• Ability to translate complex technical information into compelling stories  

• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment and support fellow team members 

• Ability to take initiative and work independently 
• Growth mindset, curiosity, and desire to learn and develop 

PG&E is unable to provide VISA sponsorship to students on an F-1, J-1 or other student visa for this position.