Control Engineer for Optimization and Validation

A Snapshot of Your Day

Join our dynamic team at Siemens Energy as a Senior Control Engineer, where your expertise will play a crucial role in shaping the future of wind power technology! Imagine tuning, optimizing, and validating control systems for cutting-edge wind turbines, ensuring they operate at peak performance throughout their lifecycle. You will collaborate closely with a talented international team of engineers, gaining insights from various disciplines such as loads and aerodynamics. Your contributions will directly enhance the competitiveness of our products, making a significant impact on the wind energy sector.

How You'll Make an Impact

• You will take technical responsibility for tuning, optimizing, and validating wind turbine control systems, balancing energy production, mechanical loads, and operational availability
• Collaborate with functionality development teams to identify and evaluate improvements to control strategies, enhancing turbine performance and reliability.
• Tune and optimize control parameters for various turbine types and operating conditions, ensuring stability and robustness across the defined operating envelope.
• Plan and execute software-in-the-loop simulations to validate control functionalities and parameter settings against performance and safety requirements.
• Support the commissioning and field validation of prototypes and fleet turbines, analyzing operational data to verify compliance with design specifications.

What You Bring

● You hold a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Control and Automation, Mechanical, Electrical, or Electronic Engineering, or possess equivalent relevant experience.

● You have proven experience in control system tuning, optimization, and validation, ideally within the wind turbine sector or similar dynamic systems.

● Your strong understanding of control theory and system dynamics allows you to assess trade-offs between energy production and mechanical loads effectively.

● Proficiency in MATLAB and Simulink is essential, along with hands-on experience in simulation-based verification and diagnosing control-related issues.

● You are a self-starter with excellent communication skills, capable of thriving in a global team environment and articulating technical findings clearly.