Company:
Hitachi Vantara Corporation
Location: Santa Clara
Closing Date: 31/10/2024
Salary: £150 - £200 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
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Description
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Hitachi Energy is seeking 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, troubleshooting, and resolution of defects as required to bring issues to closure.
- Actively research and further own knowledge in power system analysis, market operation, optimization, and real-time control; support and improve software development practices and documentation.
- Provide expertise and represent the company in internal and external discussions with stakeholders, customer meetings, and industry gatherings.
- Must be willing to travel for short periods to visit or support customers around the world.
- Live Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, meaning taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.
Your background:
- Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 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 programming 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 and 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.
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