Senior R&D Engineer - Substation Automation - IDC
Hitachi
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaremotePosted 27 months ago
Skill Required
CybersecurityEngineeringR ProgrammingwrittenTestNGPythondesignAgileJavaC#Fulltime
Key highlights
- 3-8 years of practical experience in Substation Automation required
- Bachelor or master’s degree in electrical / Electronic Engineering required
- Location: Bangalore
Role overview
You will be part of Hitachi Energy, Automation and Communication business in Bangalore, responsible for the development of protection and control products for power generation, transmission, and sub-transmission network applications. The team plays a key role in verifying and validating products innovatively within bay-level solutions, ensuring top-notch product quality. This role offers an opportunity to start or advance your technical career, understanding the engineering behind practical realization of core concepts ranging from power system protection to digital substation solutions, with involvement in end-to-end R&D testing and process enhancement using automation paradigms and tools.
Responsibilities
- Verification & validation of substation automation products.
- Participate in test core team workshop to understand the product test requirements and performs software/domain test activities on system/product projects, including design, coding, and black box testing of software modules in line with the quality management system
- Develop new and adaptive design of test cases for system and product requirements.
- Report & verify the test defect logs captured during the testing phase of the assigned product.
- Partner well with a variety of different product stakeholder groups, including management at different levels, business analysts and developer’s community.
- Technically responsible to ensure the mutual consistency and efficient integration of the several subsystems in modular, easy-to-maintain and extendible software that meets the product specification.
- 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor or master’s degree in electrical / Electronic Engineering with 3-8 years of practical experience in Substation Automation.
- Should be technically sound in the field of protection and communication protocols used in substation.
- Should be proficient in programming languages such as Python/Java/C#.
- Should have effective communication skills needed to collaborate with team members.
- Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.
Nice to have
- Knowledge on computer networks, OSI Layers, and different protocols in each layer is a plus.
- Knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle especially the Agile development method is a plus.
Additional details
- 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 centers 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.
- Our product offer includes IEDs in the Relion 670/650 series as well as the COMBIFLEX family.