Senior Excitation Engineer - Nuclear

The Senior Excitation Engineer serves as the global technical authority for excitation control systems in nuclear power environments, leading technical strategy, compliance, and troubleshooting for modernization and safety.

Location: Longmont, CO

Salary: $124,500–$207,700/yr

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term technical roadmap for excitation systems in the global nuclear fleet, including obsolescence management, digital upgrades, and life-extension programs.
• Ensure all excitation designs and modifications strictly adhere to nuclear regulatory requirements and internal Nuclear Quality Management Systems.
• Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for complex, high-priority system disturbances in nuclear facilities, ensuring that solutions prioritize both plant availability and safety-critical stability.
• Direct advanced modeling and simulation to analyze the interaction between large-scale nuclear baseload generation and evolving grid codes, ensuring the fleet’s continued stability.
• Provide expert-level consulting to the Commercial and Sales teams for multi-million dollar nuclear retrofit tenders, ensuring technical feasibility and risk mitigation.
• Institutionalize decades of excitation domain expertise by mentoring Staff and Lead engineers for nuclear excitation engineering. Provide guidance and leadership in developing documentation standards.
• Lead formal design reviews for New Product Introductions (NPI) and custom nuclear applications, ensuring rigorous verification and validation (V&V).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (Master’s or PhD strongly preferred).
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in power generation engineering, with at least 5–8 years specifically focused on excitation systems or mission-critical power plant controls.
• Exposure working within a Nuclear Safety Culture and navigating nuclear-specific quality and documentation standards.
• Deep knowledge in synchronous generator theory and power system stability.
• Strong systems engineering capability with the ability to lead complex, cross-functional integration efforts across excitation controls, generator systems, plant interfaces, and nuclear operational requirements.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource.
• Access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services.
• Retirement benefits include the GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants.
• Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.

Additional Information

• This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Final offers contingent on obtaining authorization from the U.S. Government.
• Relocation assistance provided.
• Remote position.
• Application deadline: July 01, 2026.
• Pay range: $124,500–$207,700 annually, with geographic differentials and discretionary annual bonus.
• GE Vernova is an Equal Opportunity Employer.