Associate Data Engineer - Location Flexible

Location: Oakland, CA, US

Employment Type: Full-time

Requisition ID # 174952 

Job Category: Engineering / Science 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Energy Delivery

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview: 

The Electric Risk & Compliance organization provides governance, oversight, and strategic direction on risk and compliance matters across Electric Operations, ensuring alignment with enterprise policies and external/internal regulatory requirements. It partners cross-functionally to manage compliance requirements, strengthen controls, and enable risk-based oversight through effective monitoring, data, and reporting. The Compliance Insights team provides strategic, comprehensive data analysis, reporting, and data-driven insights that support Electric compliance, investigations, and risk management.

Position Summary: 

Designs, develops, modifies, configures, debugs and evaluates jobs for extracting data from various sources, implements transformation logic, and stores data in various formats fit for use by stakeholders. Collects metadata about jobs including data lineage and transformation logic. Works with teams, clients, data owners, and leadership throughout the development cycle practicing continuous improvement. Configures, fine tunes, and monitors AI agents. 

The selected candidate must live within PG&E’s service territory.

PG&E is providing the salary 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 salary 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. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​

A reasonable salary range is:

Minimum Base Salary (Bay Area) $82,000.00

Mid Base Salary (Bay Area) $103,000.00

Maximum Base Salary (Bay Area) $124,000.00

Minimum Base Salary (California) $78,000.00

Mid Base Salary (California) $98,000.00

Maximum Base Salary (California) $118,000.00

Responsibilities: 

• Configures, fine tunes, and monitors AI agents. 

Assembles large, complex sets of data that meet non-functional and functional business requirements. 

• Builds high-performance data pipelines and prototypes that enable business use of the data. 

• Builds infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from various data sources. 

• Understands business requirements and applies them to complex software engineering and analysis. • Communicates (oral and written) recommendations with peers inside the department. 

• Partners with team members to understand and incorporate standards information and requirements into work procedures. 

• Identifies and analyzes to departmental standards, norms, and new goals/objectives. 

• Assists in data, design, product, and executive teams with data-related technical issues. 

• Understands the infrastructure that allows big data to be accessed and analyzed. 

• Utilizes department standard issue tracking, source control, and documentation tools. 

Qualifications 

Minimum: 

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field of study, or equivalent experience. 

Desired: 

• Work experience with data engineering/ETL ecosystem, such as Palantir Foundry, Spark, Informatica, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Microsoft Power Platform

• Work experience using Python, SQL, and other programming languages. 

• Experience with data engineering and data transformations via a training or apprenticeship program acceptable.