Senior Data Management Engineer - Electricity Market
Hitachi, Ltd.2 years ago
Santa Clara, CA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Analyze customer engineering, business, and software requirements and propose technically feasible solutions.
- Estimate required effort, identify risks, and formulate implementation approaches and assumptions.
- Design, develop, test, integrate, and document data management applications for electricity markets and customer projects.
- Support software releases and troubleshoot, analyze, and resolve defects with onsite and support teams.
- Research and develop expertise in data management, market operations, power-system analysis, and real-time control.
- Improve software development practices and documentation.
- Represent the company in internal and external stakeholder discussions, customer meetings, and industry gatherings.
- Travel for short periods to visit or support customers around the world.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree with a minimum of two years of electrical engineering experience emphasizing electricity markets.
- Ph.D. or master's degree in electrical engineering with emphasis in electricity markets is listed as a preferred background.
- Formal education in electrical power-systems optimization, data structures, and databases is preferred.
- Experience with electrical power-system network modeling, network topological analysis, power flow, contingency analysis, state estimation, security-constrained unit commitment, economic dispatch, and numerical methods.
- At least one year of experience using high-performance programming languages such as FORTRAN or C/C++.
- At least one year of experience using Linux or AIX operating systems.
- At least one year of experience developing power-system application software for electricity markets.
- Experience with multithreading and high-performance, memory-intensive analytical applications.
- Proficient written and oral English communication skills are preferred.
- Must already have U.S. work authorization permitting employment with Hitachi Energy.
Benefits
- Full-time, onsite position in Santa Clara/San Jose, California; remote work is not available.
- Short-period travel to support customers worldwide is required.
- Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd. builds industrial, energy, rail, and digital systems for governments and enterprises, combining operational technology with IT, cloud, and data infrastructure services. Its portfolio spans power grids, factory automation, data centers, rail systems, and consulting delivered through units such as Hitachi Vantara, Hitachi Rail, and Hitachi Energy. Founded in 1910 and headquartered in Tokyo, it is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and operates globally across critical infrastructure markets.