Business R&D Senior Professional

About the Role

Hitachi Energy India Development Centre (IDC) is a research and development facility focused on creating and sustaining digital solutions, new products, and technology. This includes product integration, testing, cybersecurity, and certification. IDC collaborates with R&D and Research centres globally.

Key Responsibilities

• Research and develop control philosophy for new and evolving technologies or to improve control performance of existing technologies in the power quality domain.
• Implement, verify, and validate developed control and protection logic in the MACH control system.
• Perform simulation of control logics and verification in a software-in-the-loop environment using tools like MATLAB scripts, MATLAB Simulink, and PSCAD.
• Perform validation testing of the whole FACTS system in a hardware-in-the-loop environment with a real-time digital simulator setup (e.g., RTDS interfaced with MACH system).
• Travel to sites to support R&D activities or troubleshoot ongoing FACTS projects.
• Be responsible for assigned deliverables in terms of quality, on-time delivery, and proactive communication of progress.
• Ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Uphold Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• ME Power Systems / ME Power Electronics degree.
• Experience or expertise in understanding/modeling of voltage sourced converters (VSC) for HVDC, FACTS is an advantage.
• Experience or expertise in simulation tools such as EMTDC / PSCAD, PSS/E, RTDS, and MATLAB is an advantage.
• Strong understanding of various power system concepts.
• Knowledge of performing power system studies like load flow, short circuit, transient stability, and switching transients for utility/industrial systems.
• Good understanding of control design concepts for various controllers and power electronics applications in power systems (HV/EHV levels).
• Good knowledge of power systems equipment and their purpose (e.g., Power Transformers, Capacitors, Reactors, Instrument Transformers, Circuit Breakers, Disconnectors, Surge Arrestors).
• MACH control system.
• RTDS.
• MATLAB.
• MATLAB Simulink.
• PSCAD.

Qualifications

• ME Power Systems / ME Power Electronics with 0-3 years of Experience.