Senior Engineer Control SW Development (m/f/d)

YOUR TASKS:

• Investigate and analyse complex control issues in the fleet and develop corrective actions in close cooperation with various departments in an international environment. Identify patterns of faults and deviations to develop preventive actions with a special focus on improving the reliability of our wind turbines.
• Develop new and improve existing wind turbine control functions based on findings from the fleet analysis.
• Implementation of control functions according to the requirements on a programmable logic controller (PLC) based on model-based-design and code generation approach. Definition of test and acceptance criteria for the qualification of the closed loop control of the wind turbines. Quality assurance through software tests using SiL, HiL setup in the software laboratory and on site at the wind turbine.
• Creation of the related software documentation.

YOUR PROFILE:

• MS or Ph.D. degree in Mechanical, Control, Aerospace or Electrical Engineering field.
• Good experience in PLC software development according to Matlab/Simulink is mandatory and IEC61131 is nice to have. Desirable SW and programming skills in C/ C++, Python, Git, SVN…
• Good knowledge of industrial communications protocols (Profinet, ModBus TCP, CAN…) is required.
• Good knowledge on control design techniques (robust control, Kalman filters).
• Desirable experience on predictive control, fault tolerant control, system identification and machine learning algorithms.
• Desirable experience with embedded code generation and RT systems for control applications.
• English (very good written and spoken). Knowing German and/or Spanish will have added advantaged.
• Independent, reliable and systematic/structured way of working. Strong communication and team skills paired with intercultural competence.
• Minimum work experience of 5 years.
• Availability to travel.

YOUR BENEFITS:

In addition to the opportunity to make our world a little more sustainable, we offer you:

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