R&D Engineer "Power Electronics Systems and Control" for Medium Voltage Drives (80 - 100%)
R&D Engineer "Power Electronics Systems and Control" for Medium Voltage Drives (80 - 100%)
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Your role and responsibilities
• Lead engineer of power electronics systems and control focusing on medium-voltage converter platforms used as electrical drives and static frequency converters. • Research, development and productization of control, modulation and estimation methods for power conversion systems, among them MP3C. • Lead and participate in R&D projects, generate intellectual property, and support the organization with your systems and control expertise • Collaborate with ABB's global business units, ABB's Corporate Research Centers and universities • Has to understand requirements from multiple application and design a common control solution which would satisfy the performance needs • Has the ability to work with different converter topologies like 3- level VSC converter, 5 level VSC converter, Current source inverter • Responsible for leading the system level verification of the drive and associated electrical drive train component
Qualifications for the role
- PhD degree in power electronics with strong expertise in converter system aspects and modeling including medium-voltage multilevel converters, electrical machines, drive systems and static frequency converters
- More than 5 years of proven experience in developing control solutions for a power electronic converter/electrical drive
- Strong expertise in control theory and applied control methods, particularly modern control formulated in the time domain including model predictive control
- Keen interest in advanced modulation methods for three-phase systems (pulse width modulation, optimized pulse patterns) and mathematical optimization (nonlinear programming)
- Ability to program in Simulink and model complex simulations for system level validation
- Good command of English, German language skills are beneficial but not a necessity
- Strong communication, interpersonal and analytical skills
- Highly motivated, creative and self-organizing team player with the ability to lead projects
More about us
ABB System Drives is a global supplier of high-power, high-performance drives, drive systems and packages for industrial processes and large infrastructure applications. With our industry leading technology and global support, we help our customers, partners and equipment manufacturers with asset reliability, performance improvement and energy efficiency in mission critical applications. Our people and culture are the foundation of our success. We all together make the difference for our customers every day. We look forward to receiving your application (documents submitted in English are appreciated). The recruiting process is being led by Peter Reinhardt, Talent Partner ABB Switzerland Ltd. If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. ABB Data Privacy Statement:https://new.abb.com/privacy-notice/candidateWork model: hybrid #LI-hybrid