Sr Manager, ATS Engineering R&D
 PG&E | |
 United States, California, Danville | |
 Mar 17, 2026 | |
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Requisition ID# 171190 Job Category: Engineering / Science Job Level: Senior Manager Business Unit: Strategy & Growth Work Type: Onsite Job Location: Danville; San Ramon Position Summary: The Senior Manager, ATS Engineering R&D will lead strategic R&D initiatives focused on advancing grid reliability, flexibility, and decarbonization in a rapidly evolving energy landscape. This role is responsible for shaping and executing a forwardlooking R&D portfolio spanning longduration energy storage, distributed energy resources (DERs), load management, and electrification. The Senior Manager will translate state policy, regulatory drivers, and system needs into applied research programs that reduce infrastructure costs, enhance resilience, and support netzero objectives while delivering measurable customer and system value. A core responsibility of this role is to drive innovation across supply and loadside solutions, including multiday storage technologies, gridedge storage ecosystems, and cooptimized deployment of storage across transmission, distribution, and customersited assets. The Senior Manager will oversee pilots and experimental validation efforts-such as building and districtscale thermal energy storage-and guide development of advanced analytics, AIenabled DER management, and managed electrification strategies that proactively address emerging load growth from electric vehicles and building electrification. The Senior Manager will also play a critical role in advancing wildfire mitigation and climate resilience through R&D, supporting innovations in undergrounding, resilient materials, and intelligent monitoring technologies. This position requires close collaboration with internal stakeholders to align research investments with capital planning, operational priorities, and funding cycles, while ensuring equitable deployment of new technologies, including pilots in disadvantaged and highrisk communities. Finally, the role will establish and manage strategic national and international partnerships to accelerate learning and technology transfer. This includes collaboration with global utilities, research institutes, startups, and cleanenergy innovators to bring leading practices-such as virtual power plants, flexibility markets, longduration storage, and clean fuel integration-into the organization's regulatory and operational context. The Senior Manager will strengthen the innovation ecosystem through partnerships, pilots, and summits, positioning the organization as a leader in utilityscale and distributed cleanenergy R&D. 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 thejob posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will bebased on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience,market value, geographic location, and internal equity.Although we estimatethe successful candidate hiredinto this rolewill be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decisionwill be made on a case-by-casebasis related tothese factors. A reasonable salary range is: Minimum Base Salary (Bay Area) $163,000.00 Mid Base Salary (Bay Area) $220,000.00 Maximum Base Salary (Bay Area) $277,000.00 Responsibilities
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