Smart Grid Engineer

Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity available for a Smart Grid Engineer to join our R&D team to engage with promising market opportunities, in Italy and abroad, in order to improve, test and support the design of our smart grid platform. This will be done in collaboration with business development and field counterparts to generate performance improvements for our customers. If you have a passion for renewable energy, technology and knowledge electric market and rules, especially within the fast paced, energetic smart-grid ecosystem, then this is the role for you.
A Smart Grid Engineer is sought to join this team and assist with the technical design and delivery of production systems. This role requires someone with a working knowledge of the technology components and trends that intersect industrial control, power systems and ICT.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with business development and marketing to define new platform goals related to specific market opportunities;
• Prepare system requirements, functional specifications, test specifications and other documentation for Regalgrid® projects;
• Design data interfaces between Regalgrid® platform and external devices, i.e. SCADA, Inverters, energy storage devices, smart meters;
• Configuration, testing, and commissioning of Regalgrid® platform in production and pre-production environments;
• Provide technical support for customers.

Requirements

• Experience with automation and control platforms;
• Understand software engineering lifecycle and documentation process for design, development and support;
• Experience configuring communication protocol interfaces for Client/Server protocols;
• Experience with IT communication networking;
• Understanding of IT security practices and cyber security risks;
• Excellent report writing skills;
• Strong analytical and presentation skills;
• Software development experience using IEC 61131-3, Java or C# programming languages;
• Experience using software version control services;
• Knowledge of current and emerging smart grid technologies;
• Experience of working with Electricity utilities;
• Knowledge of Italian, English (or other language).

Company Description

Regalgrid®’s technology uses a patented software where multiple users can share in real-time the energy generated and/or accumulated from renewable sources. Through this peer-to-peer platform, individuals can go beyond the traditional concept of photovoltaic panels and energy storage devices to manage their own energy. Indeed, users can exchange with or demand energy to the other users. Regalgrid platform uses the SNOCU (Smart NOde Control Unit) as innovative bidirectional gateway, which connects the photovoltaic systems’ devices to a cloud application. The platform receives and analyses energy flows and state of charge of the distributed energy storages, giving commands and transforming the local system into an “active node” in a Smart Community.