Power Systems Application Engineer

Mission Statement:

Are you ready to work with a purpose? At Hitachi Energy, you can be sure you're helping to create a better world. Our customers operate the largest electrical transmission and distribution networks that keep power and vital activities operating daily around the world. Hitachi Energy's development teams write the software to make this possible. Come join us in an environment that welcomes innovation and rewards your ability to get the job done while you build highly available, scalable, and reliable features on leading power systems software applications. You will develop exciting software for the future of the Power Grid. The Application Engineer works on developing the software applications for electrical utilities. This includes, analyze, evaluate and design advanced applications to monitor, analyze, optimize, and control, and simulate electrical power network, smart grid, and distributed energy resources.

• Design, develop, test, review, and maintain software with quality and performance in mind.
• Collaborate on planning, development, and testing to meet "definition of done" criteria.
• Take initiative to identify issues and work collaboratively across teams to resolve problems.
• Identify and manage risks for schedule and quality with the team and ask for help when needed.
• Be inquisitive. Try new things. Fail fast when needed. Help others learn from mistakes.
• Be effective in reflection, retrospection, and constant incremental improvement.
• 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.

• Master's degree or foreign equivalent degree from four-year college or university in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or other related Engineering fields. Ph.D will be a plus.
• Atleast 2 years of experience working related field.
• experience working on software development, debugging, and performance tuning.
• Strong knowledge and experience working with power system modeling and simulation, analysis and operation, optimization, and numerical analysis methodology.
• Familiar with analytical tools, such as Load Flow, Contingency Analysis, State Estimation, AGC, Economic Dispatch and Power Systems Simulators etc. are desirable.
• Proficiency / experience with programming languages utilizing C#, C/C++, MATLAB, Java, Python, FORTRAN.
• Experience with Linux and Windows development environments.
• Solid theoretical background in Numerical Analysis Methods, Optimization Techniques, Power System Operation is a plus.
• Power systems modeling e.g. CIMXML is an advantage.
• Hands-on experience with Energy/Distribution Management System (EMS/DMS) Applications: Generation Control, Load Flow, State Estimator, Operator Training Simulator, Fault Localization is desirable.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment is desirable.
• Ability to interact effectively with team members, Product management, and customers.
• Ability to effectively present information to and get information from peers, product management, project team, sales, customers, management and other stakeholders.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.