Business R&D Senior Professional

The opportunity

Hitachi Energy is seeking a Senior Research and Development Engineer for the Business Unit Transformers to join our innovative and forward-thinking team. In this role, you will take on significant responsibility for the development and delivery of innovative software solutions for Transformer mechanical design engineers. This role offers the chance to apply your professional expertise to lead high-impact projects within a collaborative and forward-thinking environment. Join us to deepen your technical knowledge, tackle complex challenges, and contribute to a dedicated team focused on advancing high-performance design platform that supports a sustainable energy future.

How You'll Make An Impact

• Lead comprehensive requirements analysis with cross-functional teams to understand user needs and complex system constraints, ensuring alignment with industry standards at Hitachi Energy.
• Engage proactively with key stakeholders to define project objectives and clarify updates, facilitating effective communication and gathering insights for improved project outcomes.
• Foster strong relationships with key customers, utilizing their feedback to drive continuous improvement in mechanical design platform.
• Implement newly developed product in mechanical design platform that ensure high performance and responsiveness, collaborating closely with R&D teams to exceed customer expectations.
• Conduct in-depth risk analysis and develop mitigation strategies to minimize potential impacts on mechanical design platform project timelines and budgets.
• Champion agile methodologies by organizing regular sprints and retrospectives to enhance team collaboration and adapt to changing requirements.
• Oversee testing and debugging processes to guarantee software quality, utilizing advanced tools to identify and resolve defects effectively.
• Act as a subject matter expert within projects, offering guidance to colleagues. Foster a culture of knowledge sharing by actively distributing insights, best practices, and lessons learned to promote collaboration and continuous innovation within the team.

Your background

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century in pioneering mission-critical technologies like high-voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system.

Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.