AMI Engineer

Job Description:

• This role directly contributes to the successful modernization of the utility’s metering infrastructure.
• By ensuring that AMI 2.0 technologies are thoroughly tested, validated, and deployed with high reliability.
• This position requires close collaboration with internal teams—including engineering, IT, grid operations, and field operations—as well as external metering and AMI solution vendors.
• The Engineer ensures that metering systems, communication components, and grid applications are technically feasible, interoperable, secure, and aligned with the utility’s quality, performance, and reliability standards.
• This role is instrumental in enabling successful field readiness and deployment of next-generation AMI technologies across the service territory.

Job Responsibilities:

Testing & Evaluation:

• Conduct detailed functional, hardware, communication, and electrical performance testing for qualified AMI 2.0 metering solutions.
• Support end-to-end system integration testing, including interoperability between meters, head end systems, networks, and grid management applications.
• Validate meter firmware, configuration files, communication modules (WI-SUN, LTE, Wi-Fi), and AMI platform performance against defined requirements.
• Troubleshoot customer-facing applications, test tools, and field diagnostic tools, escalating issues as needed and documenting resolutions.
• Analyze test results, track defects, and contribute to corrective action plans to ensure successful solution certification.

Field Readiness & Deployment Support:

• Support execution of the AMI 2.0 Field Test Pilot, ensuring foundational use cases—meter reads, firmware downloads, service switch operations, outage/restore notifications—are validated under real operational conditions.
• Develop technical procedures, job aids, process documentation, and field test protocols for Field Technicians and Meter Operations teams.
• Assist with readiness assessments, training activities, and operational coordination to ensure field teams are equipped for deployment.
• Participate in pre-deployment change management activities by reviewing system changes, assessing operational impacts, and communicating updates to stakeholders.
• Provide onsite or remote technical support during early deployment phases and escalate field issues.

Technical & Vendor Engagement:

• Partner with metering and AMI vendors during solution development, enhancement cycles, firmware updates, and defect resolution.
• Review and validate vendor-supplied hardware specifications, test reports, engineering documentation, and performance claims.
• Support vendor and internal integration efforts to ensure firmware, communication modules, and device behaviors align with AMI 2.0 architectural requirements.
• Assist in troubleshooting multi-vendor interoperability issues involving meters, communication networks, and head-end systems.
• Follow up on vendor corrective actions, ensuring timely delivery of fixes, patches, and updated test packages.

Education: Bachelor''s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

GlobalLogic estimates the starting pay range for this role to be performed remotely to be $135,000 to $145,000 and reflects base salary only. This pay range is provided as a good-faith estimate, and the amount offered may be higher or lower. GlobalLogic takes many factors into consideration in making an offer, including candidate qualifications, work experience, operational needs, travel and onsite requirements, internal peer equity, prevailing wage, responsibilities, and other market and business considerations.