Power Systems Engineer, HIL

3 days ago


Palo Alto, California, United States Tesla Full time
Power Systems Engineer, HIL

At Tesla, we're revolutionizing the way the world thinks about energy. As a Power Systems Engineer, HIL, you'll play a critical role in designing, modeling, and integrating our solar-battery-charging ecosystem to enable a green energy transformation.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Create plant controls and dynamic models in real-time simulations tools for pre-commissioning testing of grid-scale BESS projects
  • Perform modeling and CHIL testing to ensure that the product behavior meets the product's design specification and project's requirement
  • Continue to increase our in-house capability to model Tesla's product in CHIL testing environment to test the product power system's dynamics behavior when connected to the large and small grids
  • Improve and build CHIL test setups and automate them to perform studies in a time-efficient way with clear indexing/documentation of a large test data set
  • Work with both the product design team and the control teams to keep models current with the technology roadmap
Requirements:
  • Hands-on experience of working on at least one HIL tool: RTDS, Typhoon, OPAL-RT
  • Setting up and debugging full HIL testing systems including physical and software setups of meters, relays, controllers (like RTAC), network switches/protocols, power supplies, oscilloscopes, and interface cards
  • Working knowledge in at least one power system modeling tools: PSCAD/EMTP-RV, PSSE, PF
  • Experience of working on automation scripts and control design using at least one programming language: Python, Rust, C, C++, or Go
  • Direct experience of using HIL setup for modeling large and small grids with understanding of grid-level performance requirements
  • Expert knowledge of control theory and power systems
  • Advanced degree with focus in power systems or control preferred
What We Offer:
  • Competitive pay
  • Aetna PPO and HSA plans
  • Family-building, fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits
  • Dental and vision plans
  • Company-paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions), and Paid Holidays
  • Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
  • Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
  • Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
  • Tesla Babies program
  • Commuter benefits
  • Employee discounts and perks program


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