R&D Senior Software Engineer

The opportunity

Hitachi Energy is seeking Software Development Engineer for its Bangalore, IN location and be part of a global organization with offices in Houston, San Jose (CA.), Vasteras (Sweden) and Krakow (Poland). Under limited direction, perform complex assignments requiring diversified knowledge Software development and software engineering to cost effectively accomplish the organization's goals and objectives. Proactively seek and implement initiatives to improve quality and increase customer satisfaction.

How you’ll make an impact

• Design, develop, review, re-factor, and maintain software with quality and performance in mind.
• Collaborate on planning, development, and testing to meet “definition of done” criteria.
• Take the 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.
• 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
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• 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

Your background

• 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.
• At least 5 years of experience working on software development, debugging, and performance tuning
• 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, and Power System Modeling and Operation is a plus.
• Experience in model prototyping through use of optimization toolkits or machine learning / AI packages or BI (Business Intelligence) tools will be a plus.
• Hands-on experience with Energy Management System (EMS) Applications:  Generation Control, Network Analysis, Operator Training Simulator is desirable.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.                                   
• 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 in both spoken & written English language is required