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.
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