Electrical Engineer III (Power Systems)

S&C Electric Company•Chicago, IL

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

S&C Electric Company is seeking a dynamic individual to join our Technology Breakthrough and Innovation team as an Electrical Engineer III (Power Systems). This role is crucial in ensuring continued innovation and supporting our diverse team. The Technology & Breakthrough Innovation department drives the creation of new opportunities for S&C Electric by exploiting new technologies and enabling breakthrough product development for the fast-evolving intelligent grid. Technically sophisticated on the inside, S&C’s future systems must deliver unparalleled user experience, outstanding long-term value, and profitable revenue streams. The distribution network is evolving with increased demand for reliability, less tolerance to power quality issues, bidirectional flow of power with reduced fault current as penetration of distributed inverted-based generation increases, concern from electricity-caused wildfires, and the need to serve larger loads with limited existing assets. All these require making quick autonomous decisions at the grid edge in response to information collected not just locally but also from neighboring devices. We are looking for an agile, creative and determined individual to envision, develop, test and promote novel protection and control schemes to meet these needs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering (Master's or PhD is highly preferred)
Minimum of 3 years of industry experience in an R&D setting contributing to cyber-physical systems-computer systems that make decisions based on measurements of their physical environment and take actions to influence it.
Proficient in at least one programming language such as MATLAB, Python or C++
Success in influencing others other than direct reports
Experience in executing power system studies, including power flow, short circuit studies and dynamic simulation.
Proven ability to work independently, take initiative and collaborate with colleagues.

Nice To Haves

Designing, executing and analyzing real-time hardware-in-the-loop simulations.
Knowledge of overcurrent protection and coordination and symmetrical components.
Using or implementing graph-theory and optimization algorithm.
Good understanding of communication protocols utilized in the power system such as DNP3, IEC 61850 or IEC 60870-5-104 (IEC 104)
Developing and testing configurable logic.

Responsibilities

Develop power system logic and algorithms that include gathering requirements, setting performance target, brainstorming solutions and implementing functioning prototypes.
Represent the engineering customer when developing solutions, providing requirements and guidance to software developers.
Test the software embodiments of protection and control schemes to ensure they meet the needs and expectations of the customer, including the use of real-time hardware-in-the-loop simulators.
Contribute to planning tools so customers can better place and configure S&C products
Build support for novel product solutions by promoting them to stakeholders within S&C and to potential customers of S&C.
Author technical papers and present at technical conferences.
Research future customer needs through literature review, conferences, discussions with colleagues and external customers and participation in industry activities.