Relay Settings Intern

Location: 6314 Remote/Teleworker US

Looking for an opportunity to make an impact?

Leidos is a Fortune 500 company that brings over 70 years of experience in support of both investor-owned and municipal utility growth goals. The Leidos Energy, Infrastructure, and Automation operation helps utilities address complex challenges through comprehensive, performance-based solutions delivered across the full project lifecycle. Our capabilities include engineering, planning, project management, construction management, and commissioning services for electric power substations, transmission and distribution systems, protection and controls design, and electrification programs. Utilities nationwide rely on Leidos for trusted power industry expertise, demonstrated by our work with more than 75 investor-owned utilities and over 100 municipal and cooperative utilities, as well as a growing portfolio of private developer clients.

Your greatest work is ahead!

Leidos is hiring for a Relay Settings Intern to join our diverse and fast-paced organization. As a core team member, you will be interacting with other electric utility disciplines, playing a valuable part in leading and designing utility substation and renewable energy projects.

Remote: Position is open to remote candidates who are pursuing BSEE degrees.

What you’ll be doing:

Work with protection engineers and perform quality reviews on relay setting packages

Create logic diagrams for IEC61850 substations

Work directly with clients as well as other staff in remote office locations

Support a full range of project planning activities through design and construction support

Prepare relay settings from 4.16kV through 500kV including relay set points, logic diagrams, configuration files and documentation

Solving challenging substation engineering problems

What does Leidos need from me?

Pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from an ABET accredited institution and internship experience.

Eagerness to learn to: Develop relay settings and logic diagrams

Use Aspen OneLiner and/or Siemen’s CAPE for coordination studies and fault study analysis

Prepare protective relay coordination studies

Strong engineering and interpersonal skills and high attention to detail with a passion for quality

Favorable if you have:

Experience in preparing technical reports

Experience understanding power system protection

Ability to effectively work in a fast-paced team environment

EIT

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares. Original Posting:September 18, 2026

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:Pay Range $48,100.00 - $86,950.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.