Grid Innovation Delivery Summer Intern - Remote Grid Product

Oakland, CA, US, 94612

Requisition ID # 170505 

Job Category: Administrative / Clerical 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Electric Engineering

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 GID team is seeking a tenacious college student that is passionate about using data to ground business decisions to join us for the summer of 2026. We’re looking for someone to help develop a business analytics framework for a relatively new product while learning about how RG fits within California’s broader energy system. 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 with GID’s commercial and product lead for Remote Grid projects, which owns early project pipeline analysis, cost estimation, and business analytics for product improvement.   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 $23.08 to $28.90

 

Responsibilities

This position will have the opportunity to support many aspects of the RG program, including cost estimation refinement, business KPI development, and market analysis. You will learn to navigate different data systems and formats and create a cohesive set of metrics that will guide the program. You will participate in regular standups and working meetings as we work with teams across PG&E to improve the program. 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:

  • Earning a Bachelor’s in Business, Data Science, or quantitative degree in an accredited university
  • Student must be returning to school in the fall to continue your education toward a degree

 

Desired:

  • Experience with Microsoft  Excel, PowerPoint
  • Coursework and/or experience with statistics and data analytics
  • Minimum two years of college completed  
  • 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

Purpose, Virtues and Stands

Our Purpose explains "why" we exist:

  • Delivering for our hometowns
  • Serving our planet
  • Leading with love

Our Virtues capture "who" we need to be:

  • Trustworthy
  • Empathetic
  • Curious
  • Tenacious
  • Nimble
  • Owners

Our Stands are "what" we will achieve together:

  • Everyone and everything is always safe
  • Catastrophic wildfires shall stop
  • It is enjoyable to work with and for PG&E
  • Clean and resilient energy for all
  • Our work shall create prosperity for all customers and investors

More About Our Company

EEO
Pacific Gas and Electric Company is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that actively pursues and hires a workforce that reflects the hometowns we serve. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, religion, physical or mental disability status, medical condition, protected veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information or any other factor that is not related to the job.

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PG&E will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in a manner consistent with all state and local laws.


Nearest Major Market: San Francisco
Nearest Secondary Market: Oakland