R&D Engineer Switchgear Monitoring & Automation 80 - 100% (f/m/d)

The opportunity

Hitachi Energy, High Voltage Products is renowned worldwide as a specialist in components for power transmission and power distribution. Within the area of High Voltage Products, the Technology Center Switzerland is responsible – as part of a global development organization – for the development and optimization of products like Gas Insulated Switchgear, Generator Circuit Breakers, Surge Arresters, High Voltage Interrupter Chambers, Insulation Components as well as Control and Monitoring solutions.

How you’ll make an impact
 

• Development and maintenance of control and monitoring products (Hardware, Firmware) - Integration and testing of digital monitoring solutions and sensors

• Setting up and running automated testing environments

• Maintenance and support activities for active digital products

• Contributing to development projects for future digital products

• Support for customer-specific adaptations of active products

• Maintain and expand all necessary skills to master new technologies

• Support of engineering, production, sales and product management on quality issues

Your background 

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Embedded Engineering or a related field

• Work experience in research and development in the field of control and communication technology

• Experience in electronics and firmware development and simulation (e.g. LTSPICE)

• Experience with test automation tools and scripts

• Experience with integrated development environments

• PLC experience would be beneficial

• Experience with Matlab, Python

• Good language skills in English, both verbal and written – at least basic language skills in German

More about us 

• Exciting and varied tasks with great creative freedom - Flexible working hours

• Attractive training and development opportunities

• Interesting and varied activities/projects

• Well-established and dynamic team

• Open corporate culture