Senior Optimization Engineer

Description

General information:

Hitachi Energy is seeking a Senior Optimization Engineer for its San Jose, CA location. This role is responsible for delivering innovative solutions in the areas of mathematical modeling, optimization (linear and non-linear programming), and numerical methods.

Your Responsibilities:

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

Your background:

1. Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 5 years of experience in Electrical Engineering with special emphasis on electricity markets.
2. Candidate must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for Hitachi Energy in the United States.
3. Minimum 3 years of experience using high-performance, high-level programming languages such as FORTRAN or C/C++.
4. Minimum 5 years of experience using optimization modeling tools (AMPL/AIMMS) and optimization solvers (CPLEX and Gurobi).
5. Minimum 3 years of experience using Linux or AIX operating systems.
6. Minimum 2 years of experience developing power system application software for the Electricity Market.
7. Proficient English written and oral communication skills.

Qualifications:

1. Ph.D. or Master's Degree with a minimum of 2 years of experience in Electrical Engineering with special emphasis on electricity markets.
2. Formal classroom education in Electrical Power Systems Optimization and Data Structures and Databases. Experience with Electrical 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.
3. Experience with multi-threading, high-performance, memory-intensive analytical applications.
4. Published research on large-scale electrical power systems operation, electricity market analysis, or system reliability.

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