Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN, USA
Requisition Id 15824 Overview: As a Senior Grid Sensors R&D Engineer, you will lead the development, testing, and large-scale deployment of sensing technologies for future smart grids. High-fidelity, point-on-wave sensor applications are increasingly critical to address grid resilience, asset health monitoring, and rapid fault recovery amid growing DER and EV penetration. You will set technical direction, mature technologies from lab to field, and integrate sensors, data pipelines, and analytics into operational environments. This position requires deep practical experience in power engineering and a demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, shape research programs, and build strategic relationships with utilities and industry partners. You will grow a well-established ORNL testbed and expand field deployments across substations and distribution systems; drive standards activities to accelerate adoption; and lead publication efforts that establish ORNL's...