Intern, Power Electronics Engineering – Power Systems

Energyvault; United States; On-site; USD 27,552 - 48,216; Part time

Job summary

Energy Vault Solution, a division within Energy Vault, seeks an Intern in Power Electronics Engineering to work on EMT/HIL verification, inverter control, and system-level simulations for energy storage and data center projects.

You will gain hands-on experience with PSCAD/PSSE, EMT platforms, and hardware-in-the-loop testing while collaborating with senior engineers to analyze and troubleshoot complex energy systems.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Current Masters or Ph.D. degree with relevant research focus with solid power systems/power electronics background.
• Strong interest in renewable energy, energy storage and data center industry.
• Technical knowledge of grid-forming, grid-following inverters, power plant controller, DC/DC converters and solid-state transformers.
• Experience with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing, preferably OPAL-RT or other platforms such as Typhoon and RTDS.
• Experience working on PSCAD, PSS/E and other power system modeling software.
• Experience with designing, testing, analyzing, evaluating power electronics systems (AC/DC and DC/DC converters).
• Experience in testing inverter control board gate drivers and protection circuits.
• Familiarity with power semiconductor devices SiC and IGBT.
• Familiarity with relevant industry standards such as UL 1741, IEEE 1547, IEEE 2800.
• Experience with Matlab/Simulink, embedded control design experience in C/C++ preferably with TI C2000 DSP.
• Experience in voltage source inverter control interfaces such as PWM, ADC; communication interfaces IPC, CAN, ETH.

Responsibilities

• Design and perform verification tests in EMT simulation and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) platforms.
• Collaborate with internal and external teams to determine system requirements and verify our solution meets project requirements.
• Assist in exploring inverter control and large-scale site-level controls for energy storage/data center applications.

Skills

Power systems

Power electronics

Grid-forming/inverters

HIL testing

PSCAD

PSS/E

Matlab/Simulink

C/C++

TI C2000 DSP

Education

Master's degree (pursuing) in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

OPAL-RT

Typhoon

RTDS

TI C2000 DSP

Job description

Our Energetic Team

Energy Vault Solution, a division within Energy Vault, is dedicated to delivering customer-focused energy storage products that merge Battery and Clean Hydrogen technologies. The Energy Vault Solution team also develops and manages our AI/ML powered software applications that include EMS, Lifecycle Management, and Energy Trading Platforms.

Your Impact as an Intern, Power Electronics Engineering

We are looking for a power electronics student intern with strong power system focus specialized in one of the contemporary research areas including, but not limited to energy storage, data center, DC systems, microgrid, solid-state transformer, advanced grid-interactive inverters.

In this role, you will gain practical and technical experience on cutting-edge energy storage and data center technologies while working closely with industry experts to simulate, analyze and troubleshoot complex systems from inverter control to large scale site level controls.

This role is estimated to be 3 months in duration with 40 hours per week.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

• Help design and perform verification tests in the EMT simulation and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) platforms.
• Collaborate with internal and external teams to determine system requirements and verify our solution will meet and exceed project requirements.
• Pursuing a Current Masters or Ph.D. degree with relevant research focus with solid power systems/power electronics background.
• Strong interest in renewable energy, energy storage and data center industry.
• Technical knowledge of grid-forming, grid-following inverters, power plant controller, DC/DC converters and solid-state transformers.
• Experience with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing, preferably OPAL-RT or other platforms such as Typhoon and RTDS.
• Experience working on PSCAD, PSS/E and other power system modeling software.
• Experience with designing, testing, analyzing, evaluating power electronics systems (AC/DC and DC/DC converters).
• Experience in testing inverter control board gate drivers and protection circuits.
• Familiarity with power semiconductor devices SiC and IGBT.
• Familiarity with relevant industry standards such as UL 1741, IEEE 1547, IEEE 2800.
• Experience with Matlab/Simulink, embedded control design experience in C/C++ preferably with TI C2000 DSP.
• Experience in voltage source inverter control interfaces such as PWM, ADC; communication interfaces IPC, CAN, ETH.
• No travel is required.
• Comfortable thriving in fast-paced, rapid growth environments.
• A passion for sustainability, our mission, and our vision is a bonus!
• Must successfully pass a pre-employment background check.
• Energy Vault participates in E-Verify.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Energy Vault we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants. We believe inclusion creates opportunity for collaborative excellence through diversity of thought. We invite individuals of all genders, races, identities, ethnicities, sexual orientations, national origins, abilities, protected veteran status, religions, educational and socioeconomic backgrounds to explore employment with our organization.