DC Research Center
Responsibilities:
1. Research control and protection strategies for equipment including HCC, DC circuit breakers, DC transformers, MMC, MDC, converters (pumped-storage, wind-power, industrial and energy-storage converters), current-source power supplies (de-icing and hydrogen-production power supplies) and DC energy-dissipation devices.
2. Design and develop the control-board hardware of such equipment, including component selection, PCB design, BOM preparation, control-board development/testing and equipment verification.
3. Design and develop the control-board software of such equipment, including control-and-protection strategy design, development/testing and equipment verification.
Requirements / Qualifications:
1. PhD in Electrical Engineering, Automation or a related field.
2. Background in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering or Control Engineering.
3. Familiar with power-electronics technology, with solid foundations in circuit theory, analog/digital electronics and automatic-control principles.
4. Prior experience in secondary hardware/software development of high-voltage, high-capacity power-electronic equipment is preferred.
