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GIS Intern - Electric Asset Knowledge Management

CompanyPacific Gas And Electric Company
LocationOakland
Work ModeOn Site
PostedMarch 3, 2026
Internship Information
Core Responsibilities
The intern will support the development and enhancement of GIS web mapping applications and data services, focusing on areas like wildfire management and environmental analysis. This includes contributing to interactive web maps, environmental layers, and asset data analyses, as well as supporting data preparation and visualization workflows.
Internship Type
full time
Salary Range
$23 - $36
Company Size
23064
Visa Sponsorship
No
Language
English
Working Hours
40 hours
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About The Company
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, incorporated in California in 1905, is one of the largest combination natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San Francisco, the company is a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation. There are approximately 20,000 employees who carry out Pacific Gas and Electric Company's primary business—the transmission and delivery of energy. The company provides natural gas and electric service to approximately 15 million people throughout a 70,000-square-mile service area in northern and central California. Fast Facts * Service area stretches from Eureka in the north to Bakersfield in the south, and from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Sierra Nevada in the east * 141,215 circuit miles of electric distribution lines and 18,616 circuit miles of interconnected transmission lines * 42,141 miles of natural gas distribution pipelines and 6,438 miles of transportation pipelines * 5.1 million electric customer accounts * 4.3 million natural gas customer accounts
About the Role

Requisition ID # 170302 

Job Category: Administrative / Clerical 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Electric Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

 

 

Department Overview

The Electric Asset Knowledge Management Division’s GIS APS team is a GIS and web mapping group that designs and supports mapping applications, performs deep spatial and environmental analysis, and builds data engineering and ETL workflows. The team supports a wide range of internal clients, from environmental permitting teams to estimators, engineers, planners, and emergency response teams. The GIS APS team delivers everything from interactive web maps and dashboards to data services to automated spatial data pipelines. Interns are exposed to diverse GIS use cases and gain experience working in a production enterprise environment with real-world impact.

Position Summary

The intern will support the development and enhancement of GIS web mapping applications and data services focused on wildfire management, environmental analysis, and field data collection. This includes contributing to interactive web maps, environmental layers, and asset data analyses; assisting with data preparation and visualization; and supporting workflows and maps that improve situational awareness for wildfire and environmental operations.

PG&E is providing the hourly rate 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 hourly rate 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.

The hourly rate for this position ranges from $23.08 to $36.42.

 

Qualifications 

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Earning a Bachelor’s or Master’s of Science degree in Computer Science/Engineering or Information Technology and/or Information Systems
  • Students MUST be continuing education towards degree during and/or after internship

Desired:

  • 3.0 GPA or greater in both cumulative GPA and major GPA
  • Completed Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or Information Technology and currently pursuing Master’s degree in Computer Science/Engineer or Information Technology or other engineering discipline related to proposed assignment.
  • Dual major with second major being mechanical or manufacturing engineering.
  • Basic knowledge in computer science/engineering and information technology as it relates to 3D point cloud data, NAS and AWS systems.
  • Basic investigative, assessment and evaluation skills.
  • Experience working on computer systems, architectures, networks and data.
  • Communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Good organizational and analytical problem-solving skills.
  • Collaboration and teamwork.
  • Comfortable with MS Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

 

PG&E is unable to provide VISA sponsorship to students on an F-1, J-1 or other student visa for this position.

Key Skills
GISWeb Mapping ApplicationsData ServicesSpatial AnalysisEnvironmental AnalysisData EngineeringETL WorkflowsWildfire ManagementField Data CollectionData PreparationVisualizationSituational Awareness3D Point Cloud DataNAS SystemsAWS SystemsOrganizational Skills
Categories
TechnologyEngineeringData & AnalyticsEnvironmental & SustainabilityEnergy
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