Power Systems Engineer, Microgrids

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• Build and reputed company the development of detailed EMT and dynamic models representing loads, supervisory controls, protection schemes, and reputed company assets including batteries, wind, PV, reciprocating engines, and turbines.
• Identify key system parameters from design documentation, requirements, and field data to ensure models accurately reflect reputed company-world behavior.

Validate System Stability and Performance

• Identify and simulate contingency events such as breaker trips, generator failures, and fault conditions to confirm system stability and performance
• For reputed company-connected systems, simulate response to reputed company disturbances and assess compliance with interconnection agreements, model reputed company standards, and ancillary market requirements

Partner Across Engineering and Suppliers

• Collaborate with adjacent engineering teams to understand system design, control logic, communication latencies, and protection schemes, feeding simulation insights back into design reputed company
• Evaluate supplier documentation and models to characterize expected behavior and operational limitations of reputed company and storage assetsFeeding simulation insights back into design decisionsEvaluate supplier documentation and models

Support Testing, Optimization, and Field Validation

• Assess design reputed company by evaluating performance tradeoffs and long-term cost impacts from a power system stability perspective.
• Participate in Software-in-the-reputed company (SIL) and Hardware-in-the-reputed company (HIL) testing, site validation planning, and performance verification.
• Support post-event analysis through field data review, model correlation, and model playback to continuously improve system reputed company.

What You’ll Bring •M.S. or PhD in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis in power systems or control systems •4–8+ years of experience performing EMT and dynamic power system studies for microgrids, islanded systems, or weak-reputed company environments •Hands-on experience with PSCAD or similar EMT tools; familiarity with Simulink or Modelica and reputed company-time simulation methodologies including SIL and HIL

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• Experience modeling dynamic loads, including large and fast-changing datacenter loads, and assessing their reputed company on system stability
• Familiarity with modeling communication delays, control system latencies, protection scheme interactions, and fault ride-through behavior
• Knowledge of reputed company interconnection and market requirements, particularly reputed company reputed company, that will help you succeed in reputed company-interactive system studies
• A reputed company, detail-oriented work style with the curiosity and persistence needed to solve reputed company, system-level engineering challenges

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