Senior Domain Engineer 80 - 100%
Hitachi Energy
Baden, Switzerland
8 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Shift work Languages
English Experience level
SeniorJob location
Baden, Switzerland
Tech stack
Systems Engineering
Automation of Tests
Azure
C++
Code Review
Continuous Integration
Software Debugging
Firmware
Ruby
Software Engineering
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Integration Tests
Software Version Control
Requirements
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering (Power Systems)
- Deep knowledge of power system protection with emphasis on busbar protection (fault studies, CT behavior incl. CT saturation, settings coordination, selectivity)
- Hands on experience configuring, testing, and validating protection IEDs using engineering tools and IEC 61850 engineering artifacts (ICD/CID/SCL)
- Proficiency in C++ and ADA for protection/embedded application development; strong debugging, code review, and unit/integration testing discipline
- Practical experience with Adwin Pro test system and OMICRON based automated testing (test plan design, automation, and regression execution)
- Proven track record delivering complex features to release milestones-from architecture to implementation and integration
- Experience triaging and resolving product feedback end to end, including root cause analysis, implementation proposals, and validation
- Direct customer support/interaction to elicit true requirements and propose solutions that avoid unnecessary firmware changes where feasible
- Collaboration with support, Product Management, and cross functional teams; creation of clear operational documentation for engineering and test teams
- Working knowledge of Azure DevOps (Boards/Repos/Pipelines) or equivalent for backlog, CI/CD, branching, and version control
Your background
- Familiarity with IEC standards for protection systems (IEC 61850, IEC 60255); experience analyzing/closing conformance test findings
- Test automation at scale, data driven validation, and integration with Automated test system toolchains
- Strong systems engineering mindset across the product lifecycle; ability to produce concise implementation proposals for complex features
- Experience crafting customer specific adaptations to reduce rework and future changes
- Scripting to accelerate workflows and test harnesses like Ruby; comfort learning new languages/tools quickly
- Effective communication with distributed teams; ability to take ownership of ambiguous, cross domain tasks outside the comfort zone
- Support for type tests and factory/acceptance testing; ability to produce step by step operation guides for stable system operation
Benefits & conditions
- Exciting and varied tasks with great creative freedom
- Flexible working hours
- Attractive training and development opportunities
- Interesting and varied activities/projects
- Well-established and dynamic team
- Open corporate culture