Senior Power Applications Engineer

Company:  Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.
Location: Santa Clara
Closing Date: 31/10/2024
Salary: £150 - £200 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description

Senior Power Applications Engineer

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States

Job ID: R0049996

Date Posted: 2024-08-02

Company Name: HITACHI ENERGY USA INC

Profession (Job Category): Engineering & Science

Job Schedule: Full time

Remote: No

General information:

Hitachi Energy is seeking for a Senior Power Applications Engineer for its San Jose, CA location. This role is responsible for delivering innovative solutions in the areas of network modeling, network analysis, power flow, security/contingency analysis and real-time control.

Your Responsibilities:

  • Analyze and understand customer engineering, business and software requirements, propose technically feasible solutions, estimate required effort, identify risks and formulate implementation approach and assumptions.
  • Design, develop, test, integrate and document network applications and related work for customer projects, while following best engineering and software development practices.
  • Support software releases and assist onsite/support team with expert knowledge, problem analysis, troubleshoot and resolution of defects as required to bringing issues to closure.
  • Actively research and further own knowledge in power system analysis, market operation, optimization, and real time control and support and improve software development practices and documentation.
  • Provide expertise and represent the company in internal and external discussions with internal stakeholders, customer meetings, industry gatherings.
  • Must be willing to travel for short periods of time to visit or support customers around the world.
  • Living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your Background:

  • Bachelor's degree with minimum 5 years of experience in Electrical Engineering with special emphasis in Power Network Applications and Control.
  • Candidate must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for Hitachi Energy in the United States.
  • Master's Degree with 2 years of experience in Electrical Engineering with special emphasis in Power Network Applications and Control.
  • Demonstrated programming skills in high performance, high programming level languages such as C/FORTRAN.
  • Familiarity with operating systems such as Linux or similar. Proficient skills in English written and oral communication.
  • Desirable Qualifications: Ph.D in Electrical Engineering with emphasis in analysis of de-regulated electricity markets.
  • Formal classroom education in Power Systems Optimization. Formal classroom education in Data Structures and Databases.
  • Experience with Power Systems Network Modeling, Network Topological Analysis, Power Flow, Contingency Analysis, State Estimator, Security Constrained Unit Commitment, Economic Dispatch, Linear and Non-Linear Programming (Optimization) and Numerical Methods.
  • Experience developing power system application software for Electric Utilities or Electricity Markets.
  • Experience with multi-threading, high performance, memory intensive analytical applications.

Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) - Females/Minorities/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

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