Power System Research Intern

Hitachi Energy is a pioneering technology leader that is helping to increase access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all. We keep your lights on, the factories running, our hospitals and schools open. What we deliver is used almost universally, with more than three quarters of the world’s population positively impacted by what we do. Founded on 100+ years of engineering heritage and enriched by diversity, we balance social, environmental, and economic values for a sustainable society. We employ more than 40,000 people in more than 90 countries.

Responsibilities

- Perform literature survey and review to explore state-of-the-art topics that fall within the scope of distribution network management.

- Simulate current and future distribution grid scenarios including emerging technologies (e.g., energy storage, electro-mobility, etc.)

- Develop novel and innovative solutions for distribution network management, with particular emphasis on data analytics, optimization, machine learning, probabilistic modeling, and graph-based methods.

- Develop proof-of-concept experiment/simulation setups for validating the proposed methodology using detailed case studies.

- Collaborate with the research scientists within Hitachi Energy Research.

- Prepare technical reports, and presentations on work accomplished during internship and/or publications in peer-reviewed conference/journal.

Your Background

- Currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Electrical and Computer Engineering at an accredited university in the US. Excellent senior-year master’s students with relevant experience are also welcome to apply.

- Conceptual understanding of transmission and distribution network operation, modeling, and control.

- Working knowledge of distribution system concepts such as outage management, state estimation, power flow, and/or optimal power flow.

- Working knowledge and/or familiarity with graph theory concepts.

- Able to work with software GUI applications.

- Prior experience with distribution network modeling/power flow/DC-OPF/AC-OPF/state estimation is beneficial.

- Familiar with distribution network automation.

- Comfortable with programming in either Python or C/C++.

- Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English.

- Capable of carrying out independent work and able to communicate effectively in a team.

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century in pioneering mission-critical technologies like high-voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system.

Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.

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