Senior Microgrid Control Systems Architect

Delta Electronics Americas; Morrisville (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Delta Electronics Americas seeks an experienced professional to design end‑to‑end supervisory control for EMS, real‑time control, and protection‑aware operation of utility‑grade microgrids. The role emphasizes translating business goals into robust control functions while ensuring safe grid performance.

The candidate will implement optimization across day‑ahead to intraday horizons, validate interfaces, and collaborate with protection engineers. Travel up to 15% is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems, Controls, or related field.
• 3–8+ years of experience in microgrid controls, EMS/supervisory control, real‑time control, and/or protection‑coordinated control design.
• Strong understanding of inverter‑based resources, microgrid operating modes, and dynamic control concepts.
• Working knowledge of protection concepts, protection philosophy, and protection–control coordination in microgrids and utility interconnections.
• Experience defining command arbitration/authority models across EMS, real‑time control, SCADA/HMI, unit controllers, and protection relays.
• Experience supporting SIL/HIL validation, FAT/SAT, commissioning, and cross‑functional integration activities.
• Excellent documentation, analytical problem‑solving, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Professional working proficiency in English; additional languages are a plus.
• Ability to travel up to ~15%, including international travel as required.
• Ability to work across cross‑functional and cross‑region engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design EMS optimization algorithms (economic dispatch, reserve management, resilience planning, emissions objectives, and degradation‑aware operation).
• Implement day‑ahead, intraday, and rolling‑horizon optimization with robust fallback strategies and operator override handling.
• Translate EMS schedules and setpoints into supervisory control intents that respect real‑time stability, ramp limits, and protection constraints.
• Define EMS constraints and feasibility checks (asset limits, network limits, N‑1/contingency policies where applicable) and document assumptions.
• Analyze operational performance, tune objectives/constraints, and drive continuous improvement of optimization outcomes.
• Design real‑time control algorithms for grid‑connected, islanded, transition, resynchronization, and black‑start operation.
• Coordinate frequency, voltage, and active/reactive power objectives across PCS, BESS, generators, and DER assets.
• Develop fast control loops, setpoint tracking, limit enforcement, and event‑response logic aligned with protection systems.
• Define and enforce command prioritization/arbitration between real‑time control, EMS intents, SCADA commands, and local unit control autonomy.
• Support tuning and performance optimization across operating modes, including weak‑grid and disturbance recovery behavior.

Skills

Inverter-based resources

EMS/supervisory control

Protection coordination

Cross-functional collaboration

English proficiency

Python/MATLAB scripting

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in Electrical Engineering/Power Systems/Controls

Tools

Python/MATLAB

Job description

Delta Electronics Americas seeks an experienced professional to design end‑to‑end supervisory control for EMS, real‑time control, and protection‑aware operation of utility‑grade microgrids. The role emphasizes translating business goals into robust control functions while ensuring safe grid performance.

The candidate will implement optimization across day‑ahead to intraday horizons, validate interfaces, and collaborate with protection engineers. Travel up to 15% is expected.