Senior Power Applications Engineer

Hitachi - Santa Clara, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Onsite - Santa Clara, CA

Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing

About the position

Hitachi Energy is seeking a Senior Power Applications Engineer for its San Jose, CA location. This role is pivotal in delivering innovative solutions in network modeling, network analysis, power flow, security/contingency analysis, and real-time control. The engineer will be responsible for analyzing and understanding customer engineering, business, and software requirements, proposing technically feasible solutions, estimating required effort, identifying risks, and formulating implementation approaches and assumptions. The position involves designing, developing, testing, integrating, and documenting network applications and related work for customer projects, while adhering to best engineering and software development practices. The engineer will also support software releases and assist onsite/support teams with expert knowledge, problem analysis, troubleshooting, and resolution of defects as required to bring issues to closure. Continuous research and self-improvement in power system analysis, market operation, optimization, and real-time control are essential, as well as supporting and improving software development practices and documentation. Additionally, the engineer will provide expertise and represent the company in internal and external discussions, including meetings with stakeholders and industry gatherings. A willingness to travel for short periods to visit or support customers around the world is also required. The role embodies Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, emphasizing personal responsibility and care for colleagues and the business.

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 bring 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, and industry gatherings.
• Travel for short periods of time to visit or support customers around the world.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with minimum 5 years of experience in Electrical Engineering with special emphasis in Power Network Applications and Control.
• 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.

Nice-to-haves

• 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.

Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) - Females/Minorities/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
• Reasonable accommodations for protected veterans and qualified individuals with disabilities.