California ISO is hiring a
Computer Science Intern

Summary

The California ISO is accepting applications from university or graduate students majoring in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields for summer 2024 internship positions. The intern will work on various assignments related to the energy industry and have opportunities to interact with the CEO and executive team.

Requirements

• Currently in a Bachelor's degree (BS) or Masters degree (MS) program in Computer Science, MIS or related field
• Graduating December of 2024 or later
• Proficient in Microsoft office suite
• Good presentation, oral and written communication skills highly desirable
• Must be able to work effectively in a team environment
• Excellent analytical and problems solving skills required

Responsibilities

• Past Assignments have included work such as: Building new software tools in support of the reliable operation of the Grid and the energy markets we facilitate
• Data validation and user acceptance testing (UAT), schedule and monitor processes necessary for calculation and publication of energy market settlement statements and invoices
• Development of enterprise-wide systems integration mapping, with database that links to interface specification
• Provide technical content and sample code for the ISO's developer.caiso.com website
• Document archiving solutions for new technologies as well as development of automation solutions
• Oracle Database/Storage task queue maintenance, documentation, create automation scripts for Oracle database admin tasks/storage procurement and document, create automated reports of daily DBA/Storage procedures, create standard monitoring scripts, generate capacity reports
• Projects to develop work products that will reduce processing time, enhance transparency or enhance capabilities in departments across the organization

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous internships, research or work experience using economic analysis is desired
• Research and or studies in energy industry highly desired
• Strong quantitative skills
• Competence in software such as R, Python, SQL, and Java desired but not required

Benefits

• This is a paid intern position for 10 -12 weeks during summer 2024
• Opportunities to interact with the CEO and the Executive team of the ISO
• Invitations to seminars on the latest energy industry topics such as renewables, electric cars and micro grids
• Social activities with other interns
• Opportunity to work at our 'green' LEED certified Folsom, California campus with some of the brightest people in the industry if you are local
• The pay range for computer science interns at the CAISO is $27 - $32 per hour