Intern, Power Electronics Engineering – Power Systems, Energy Vault

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

Your Mission:

• 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.

Qualifications

• No travel is required.
• Comfortable thriving in fast-paced, rapid growth environments.

Skills

• Power electronics
• Power system
• Data center
• DC systems
• Microgrid
• Solid-state transformer
• Advanced grid-interactive inverters

Benefits

No benefits provided.

Pay

The salary range, $30.00 to $35.00, reflects the target new hire hourly rate for the position across all U.S. locations.

Schedule

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