R&D Control Engineer-eMobility-IDC

Business Information:

Hitachi Energy India Development Centre (IDC) is a research and development facility with around 500 R&D engineers, specialists, and experts, who focus on creating and sustaining digital solutions, new products and technology. This includes product integration, testing, cybersecurity, and certification. The India Development Centre is situated in Chennai and Bangalore. IDC collaborates with the R&D and Research centres of Hitachi Energy, which are spread across more than 15 locations throughout 12 countries. In the past 20 years, IDC has secured more than 200 international papers and 150+ patents.

Mission Statement:

Team with strong management skills, to deliver the value expected from the team. The team manager is expected to define and implement both long-term and short-term strategies for the team, as per the overall organization strategy.

• Prepare or support in preparing technical design documents in response to market / product / technical / functional / non-functional requirements specifications
• Develop and assess control concepts for low / medium voltage - low / high power chargers
• Own and deliver on the control elements of e-Mobility charging solutions including overall control architecture, hardware selection, programming, and testing
• Develop / build proof of concepts as a step towards comprehensive control software development
• Develop, test, verify, and validate, or review control and protection software (PLC, SCADA, protection relay, PID regulation, IEC 61850, ...) for eMobility charging solutions according to security development lifecycle and technical design documents
• Conduct and / or participate in unit / bench / API / functional / non-functional testing of software products / features
• Support lab testing, on-site installations, commissioning, or troubleshooting for customer projects
• Analyze the developed code, prepare bug reports, conduct root cause analysis, suggest fixes, implement and / or ensure implementation of the identified solution, subsequent verification and validation steps
• Deploy, deliver, and operate control software products and releases for internal / external customer projects
• Act as L3/L4 support team member for, e.g., troubleshooting control software issues with users
• Create documentation artefacts such as reports, user manuals, operating procedures, test procedures, guidelines, report templates for engineering and commissioning engineers
• Living Hitachi Energy's core values safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

• Bachelor's or master's degree in electrical engineering, software engineering, computer science or similar
• Experience in industrial control software development with Codesys (must have) and with PLC programming, SCADA, WEB-HMI
• Experience with Embedded C/C++ programming and Experience with Communication Protocols (RS232/485, Modbus RTU/TCP-IP, MQTT, EtherCAT, CAN, WS, HTPP / HTPPS etc)
• Experience with EV charger and CCS2 protocols (OCPP, ISO 15118 / DIN 70121 / SAE J3105 / VDV 261) and MQTT protocol,
• Experience in Testing and commissioning of control systems, Network architecture/configuration & Network device integration & Cyber Security Fundamental IEC 62443 would be an advantage.
• Experience with Power Eletronics control and low voltage and medium voltage network distribution would be an advantage & experience with DC network and energy storage systems (battery, supercaps, BMS) would be an advantage
• Team spirit with the capacity to work independently, complemented by a quick intellect and well-developed analytical skills
• Experience in working with scrum development lifecycle model
• Experience in working with IEC standard, ANSI (others are also preferred)
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required