Senior Controls Engineer

Company Overview

LG Energy Solution Vertech, Inc. (LGES-VT) is a full-service energy storage system supplier and integrator. Using our core strengths of expert service to our customers, unparalleled safety, and excellence in manufacturing, we bring standardized, fully integrated energy storage systems to a rapidly growing worldwide market.

Our systems address our customers' needs to reduce capital equipment and installation costs while enhancing system-level performance and reliability using automated monitoring systems and analytics across the battery, power conditioning and auxiliary systems.

Our AEROS® energy operating system is the engine of innovation to provide advanced control functions allowing our customers to maximize the value of their energy storage assets. Our service capabilities include advanced monitoring and analytics, scheduled maintenance, augmentation, and auxiliary system upgrades.

The combination of excellence in battery technology and production coupled with nearly two decades of energy storage integration makes LGES-VT a leading supplier and integrator in the power and energy markets.

LGES-VT is a highly matrixed, team-oriented organization that fosters cross-functional collaboration and innovation.

The company seeks high-caliber candidates with proven experience and with characteristics that embody our corporate commitment to the virtues of humble, hungry, and smart in all we do. Our diverse and growing team enjoys competitive salaries, generous benefits, including 100% employer-sponsored medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.

For more information about LGES-VT, please visit www.lgensol-vt.com.

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Controls Engineer with strong skills in dynamic system modeling and controls development. This role involves end-to-end real-time controls development, including controller architecture design, dynamic system simulation in both instantaneous and RMS domains, implementation, and field testing.

The position is highly interdisciplinary and demands a strong technical foundation in three-phase power systems, power flow, and inverter modeling for grid-connected and off-grid applications.

In this role, you will be a key contributor to the development and maintenance of dynamic simulation models for our energy storage products used in both grid-connected and off-grid applications. You will leverage these models to design control strategies and perform a wide range of system studies to ensure compliance with project specifications.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain models of energy storage systems, inverters, generators, and renewables for dynamic and steady-state grid interconnection studies.
• Develop control algorithms to manage the optimal control of various generation resources including battery, PV, and gas-powered gensets.
• Perform simulation studies to investigate interactions between different generation resources in terms of stability and performance in off-grid and grid-connected operations.
• Maintain excellent documentation of simulation reports and system studies, and give presentations to internal stakeholders and customers.
• Interface with sales engineering, program management, project management, and project engineers to collect project modeling requirements.

Key Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Required

• Master’s or PhD in Electrical Engineering with emphasis on control theory, power systems, electrical machines, and/or power electronics.
• Minimum of 3 years of dynamic system modeling experience using MATLAB, PSCAD, PSS/E, or similar software.
• Knowledge of inverter operation and control.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and documentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks concurrently.
• Ability to interface well with internal and external customers.
• Demonstrated history of delivering quality products to market with understanding and respect for all phases of the product development process, especially requirements, specification development, and release control.

Preferred

• Expertise creating detailed models of battery energy storage systems, generators, power electronics converters, gas turbines, and electrical networks and components.
• Experience with ISO/RTO regulation and requirements (ERCOT, CAISO, MISO, PJM).
• Experience with NERC standards and NERC compliance that applies to grid interconnection requirements.
• Familiarity with IEEE 1547 and IEEE 2800 interconnection standards.
• Proficiency in C/C++ and Linux environments for controls algorithm development and testing
• Experience with version control systems (Git) and collaborative software development workflows.

Location

Hybrid (Westborough, MA or Chesterfield, MO)