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.
- 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
Nearest Major Market: San Francisco
Nearest Secondary Market: Oakland