Senior Manager, Power System Control and Modeling

Enphase Energy•Austin, TX

32d•$130,000 - $226,000

About The Position

Enphase Energy’s System Control Innovation team in the office of the CTO defines, develops, and supports next-generation system control solutions for Enphase products, including the Enphase Solid State Transformer. This team leadership role leads control design and modeling initiatives, system-level performance demonstration, and development of innovative control solutions. The successful candidate will lead an engineering team and help shape the direction of Enphase products.

Requirements

Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline, with modeling and energy systems experience.
Relevant experience: 15+ years with a bachelor’s degree, 6+ years with a master’s degree, or 3+ years with a PhD. Candidates with greater experience are encouraged to apply.
Strong experience developing control and optimization approaches from theory through implementation, applied to power systems; examples include phase-locked loops, closed-loop control systems, droop control, filtering and estimation, and system identification.
Proficiency with EMT-based software tools such as PSCAD, PowerFactory, EMTP, Simulink/Simscape Electrical, RTDS, or Hypersim.
Experience developing and integrating dynamical models for power electronics systems, power systems, generators, dynamic loads, and/or HVDC systems.
High proficiency with HIL simulation-based validation approaches.
Experience developing and analyzing control logic written in C, C++, or Python.
Familiarity with embedded platforms and concepts appropriate for real-time control implementation.
Experience owning development tasks and leading a team to accomplish project objectives.

Nice To Haves

Experience with design, modeling, or validation of data center power systems.
Knowledge of power system integration codes and standards, such as IEEE 2800, UL 1741, IEEE 1547, and/or medium-voltage product standards such as UL 347A and UL 2877.
Hands-on experience implementing and testing systems of embedded controllers and/or power electronics devices with embedded control.

Responsibilities

Understand Enphase power product and system architectures and help design and validate approaches for performant system control and product integration.
Lead development of detailed electromagnetic transient (EMT) simulation models integrating power electronics, power systems, and control systems, using PSCAD and similar tools.
Use models to demonstrate and validate whole-system performance, including transient response, voltage regulation, sharing and coordination control, frequency-domain stability, and fault and protection coordination.
Drive hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation-based validation of power systems and converters.
Participate in prototyping and implementation of custom control logic embedded on distributed real-time control platforms.
Advance specifications and integration designs for external control interfaces, sensing, electrical protection, and power system integration of power products.
Mentor, develop, and lead an engineering team, including setting objectives, determining work plans, and delegating assignments.
Take ownership of development tasks and lead the team toward key project objectives.