Business R&D Senior Professional

Hitachi Energy; Chennai; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy India Development Centre in Chennai invites a ME Power Systems/Power Electronics engineer with 0–3 years of experience to contribute to research and development in FACTS and HVDC domains. You will work on control philosophy, MACH integration, and validation in software-in-loop and hardware-in-loop setups, with exposure to MATLAB/PSCAD/RTDS.

Travel to sites for R&D and project support, ensuring quality, timely delivery, and compliance with safety and integrity values.

Qualifications

• ME degree in Power Systems or Power Electronics with 0–3 years of experience.
• Experience with voltage-sourced converters (VSC) for HVDC/FACTS is a plus.
• Knowledge of power system studies: load flow, short circuit, transient stability.
• Familiarity with control design concepts for power electronics in power systems.
• Awareness of Power Systems equipment like transformers, capacitors, reactors, breakers.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop control philosophy for new technologies in power quality.
• Implement and validate control logic in MACH system; create a robust baseline.
• Simulate control logics in software-in-the-loop using MATLAB/PSCAD/PSDS?
• Validate FACTS system in hardware-in-the-loop with RTDS setup.
• Travel to sites to support R&D activities and project troubleshooting.
• Ensure deliverables meet quality, timelines, and stakeholder communications.
• Adhere to external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

Skills

VSC HVDC/FACTS understanding

Education

ME Power Systems / ME Power Electronics

Tools

EMTDC

PSCAD

PSS/E

RTDS

MATLAB

Job description

The Opportunity

Hitachi Energy India Development Centre (IDC) is a research and development facility with around 500 R&D engineers, specialists, and experts, who focus on creating and sustaining digital solutions, new products and technology. This includes product integration, testing, cybersecurity, and certification. The India Development Centre is situated in Chennai and Bangalore. IDC collaborates with the R&D and Research centres of Hitachi Energy, which are spread across more than 15 locations throughout 12 countries. In the past 20 years, IDC has secured more than 200 international papers and 150+ patents.

Hitachi Energy is the world leader in Power Quality Solutions (PQS). Hitachi Energy was the firstto introduce Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) technology to the power industry and has deliveredsolutions for more than 50 years now. Hitachi energy has several solutions that enhance the security,capacity, and flexibility of power transmission systems. These solutions enable power grid owners to increaseexisting transmission network capacity while maintaining or improving the operating margins necessary for gridstability. Hitachi Energy has the full FACTS portfolio and in-house manufacturing of key components.Our PQS R&D group in Chennai is focusing on developing and evaluating functionalities for STATCOM, STATICVAR Compensator (SVC), Series Compensator and Synchronous Condensers for utilities and industries. Hitachi Energy uses a very high-end system for its control, protection and monitoring of FACTS solution called MACH (Modular Advanced Control for HVDC and FACTS). This is a system of computers built with state-of-the- art electronics, microprocessors and digital signal processors.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• To research and develop the control philosophy for new and evolving technologies / to improve the control performance of any existing technologies in power quality domain.
• To implement, verify & validate the developed control and protection logic in MACH control system thereby creating a rigorously tested, stable baseline solution which later can be tailored to meet specific customers’ requirements.
• To perform simulation of control logics and verification on control logics in software in loop environment (with the help of tools including but not limited to MATLAB scripts, MATLAB Simulink and PSCAD)
• To perform validation testing of the whole FACTS system in a hardware in loop environment with real time digital simulator setup. (ex: RTDS interfaced with MACH system)
• Traveling sites to support various R&D activities or troubleshooting ongoing FACTS projects.
• To be responsible for the deliverables assigned in terms of quality, on time delivery and proactive communication of progress to the R&D project management, work-stream lead and other stakeholders.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Living with Hitachi Energy’s core values safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your Background

• Required ME Power Systems / ME Power Electronics with 0-3 years of Experience.
• Any experience or expertise in understanding / modelling of voltage sourced converters (VSC) for HVDC, FACTS is an added advantage or in simulation tools such as EMTDC / PSCAD, PSS/E, RTDS and MATLAB are an added advantage.
• Must have strong understanding of various power system concepts including knowledge of performing power system studies like load flow, short circuit, transient stabilityand switching transients for utility / industrial systems.
• Must have good understanding of control design concepts of various controllers and power electronics application in power system (HV/EHV levels).
• Good knowledge of Power Systems equipment and their purpose. Example, Power Transformers,Capacitors, Reactors, Instrument Transformer and measuring equipment, Circuit Breakers, Disconnectorsand Surge Arrestors.

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Publication date : 2026-10-28