Jobs at Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO)

Develop, maintain, and test disaster recovery plans; run DR exercises and tabletop tests; monitor DR tools; define recovery objectives with stakeholders; document lessons learned; support business continuity and NERC CIP-009 compliance improvements.

Lead strategic generation planning to evaluate impacts of inverter-based resources, DERs, electrification, and extreme weather on resource adequacy and reliability. Identify methodology gaps, develop long-term planning recommendations and roadmaps, integrate technical/economic/regulatory factors, and translate findings for executive decision-making.

Provide strategic executive support to the SVP of HR: manage calendar, travel, and logistics; shape executive and board communications; track HR initiatives; advise on people decisions; protect confidential information and participate as a leadership team member.

Lead contract negotiations, draft and execute contracts, ensure compliance, partner with stakeholders, champion technology, and monitor performance using data.

The role involves modeling energy systems, ensuring compliance with NERC and FERC requirements, and coordinating with various stakeholders on complex engineering projects.

Perform and analyze inputs/outputs to MISO's PRA, lead mock auction processes, refine QA/QC, and support development of PRA results and materials. Interpret planning data, identify trends and challenges, and collaborate across teams to improve resource adequacy processes and inform market and policy decisions.

Lead EMS modernization projects supporting control-room operations. Advise on market and reliability initiatives, develop EMS roadmaps, synchrophasor strategy, visualization and simulation capabilities, and mentor junior engineers to maintain bulk power system reliability.

Assess long-term regulatory, economic, and industry trends affecting generation and transmission. Analyze grid reliability and adequacy using engineering and economic tools, model gas-electric interdependencies, produce reports and presentations, collaborate cross-functionally, and engage regulators and industry partners to inform planning and policy.

Lead large, complex technical projects from planning through delivery: manage scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, and change. Coordinate stakeholders, produce project plans and documentation, communicate status, mentor team members, support portfolio release planning, and drive continuous improvement.

The Principal AI Engineer will design and deploy AI-driven solutions, integrate AI into data processing pipelines, and drive market insights using advanced AI techniques. Responsibilities include building scalable infrastructure, developing LLM solutions, and partnering with multi-disciplinary teams.

Perform engineering, statistical, and economic analyses of electricity market operations and participant behavior. Develop, evaluate, and recommend market design initiatives, models, algorithms, and tariff/system changes. Track market performance indicators, assess compliance with tariff requirements, and communicate findings to stakeholders to inform decision-making and improve market efficiency and reliability.

Lead the Forward Market Solutions team to modernize market administration tools, oversee congestion management projects, coordinate engineering and vendors, set goals and budgets, and hire and develop staff while ensuring regulatory compliance and data-driven modernization.

Lead an engineering team to plan and execute transmission and generation outages per MISO tariff and reliability standards. Ensure accurate engineering studies, coordinate with system and market operations and external partners, drive automation and data-driven process improvements, represent Operations Planning externally, and recruit and develop staff.

Lead operational planning analyses for the MISO power system, build near-term models for power flow and contingency studies, evaluate system performance and transmission limitations, and develop operating guides and outage coordination. Collaborate across service lines, support implementation of procedures for normal and abnormal conditions, and deliver reliability assessments and mitigation plans on schedule while working a rotating 12-hour shift.

Lead the ServiceNow product vision, roadmap, and backlog; collaborate with stakeholders, architects, and dev teams; apply Agile practices; drive release planning, adoption, reuse of platform capabilities, and data‑driven product decisions to improve operational efficiency and automate workflows.

Support the Generation Interconnection team by managing interconnection project queue activity, processing new requests, coordinating stakeholders, providing project management support to engineering, maintaining compliance documentation, and identifying process improvements to streamline project execution and ensure tariff compliance.

Lead administration and improvement of the Financial Transmission Rights (FTR) market: validate and analyze models, run monthly FTR auctions, collaborate across modeling, planning, operations, settlements and credit teams, implement automation and process improvements, and support market changes to accommodate increased renewable integration.

Lead administration and validation of the Financial Transmission Rights (FTR) monthly auction, analyze models, and collaborate across modeling, planning, outages, credit, settlements, and operations. Implement process automations and market improvements to support FTR, Day-Ahead, and Real-time market functions as renewable integration grows. Provide technical market expertise and support transformative projects.

Lead a team to research, design, and implement enhancements to wholesale market frameworks, pricing, and operations. Drive complex proposals from concept to approval, collaborate with engineering, operations, planning and policy teams, present and defend initiatives to stakeholders and regulators, monitor industry trends, and build consensus to support reliable, affordable, and sustainable grid operations.

Manage and optimize Tripwire Enterprise, ensure compliance and security, integrate with other systems, automate processes using scripting, handle audits and configuration monitoring.