ESS - Power Design Engineer

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, more than 80 000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Job Title: ESS Power Design Engineer 

Alstom India - Engineering – Bangalore

The Company

At the helm of companies committed to a greener future, Alstom creates smart innovations to develop mobility solutions that provide the sustainable foundations for the future of transport. We design and manufacture a complete range of transportation systems, from high-speed trains, metros, monorails to driverless trains, as well as infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility solutions.

Joining us means joining a caring, responsible and innovative company with global community of more than 75000 people solving real-world mobility challenges and paving the way for greener and smarter mobility with sustainable local impact.

Context

As part of the development of innovative traction systems using energy storage systems, the Alstom Bangalore site is strengthening its ESS department. We work across disciplines to transform improved hardware and software elements into a single, integrated design.

Join us, and you will help us innovate new battery technologies that continually outperform the previous iterations.

By collaborating with other product development groups across Alstom, you will craft creative energy storage solutions that deliver more energy in smaller spaces than ever before.

As a team, you will push the industry boundaries of what ESS can do and improve the product experience for our customers across the world!

In this role, you will be developing world-class green energy storage solutions that lead the industry in quality and performance, drive customer results, and make a difference in people's lives. Do you have a passion for invention and self-challenge ?

The Role

As part of our ESS Engineering group, his/her mission is to define the power schemes and to design electrical components for energy storage systems for railway traction and auxiliary applications.

The Power Design Engineer shall carry out his mission in a tender, project, product or R&D team, and, is working with other technical domains (mechanical design, control-command, validation, RAMS), and with Sourcing and Quality department. The Power Design Engineer has close links with power design engineers in other domains to use and deploy the same development methods, ensure synergies and coordination to promote standardisation and maximise carry-over from standard products. He/She must follow the state of the art, define and structure the validation steps of new ESS components.

He/She is responsible for the documentation of solutions, the follow-up of their application in the project and the growth of reliability.

Main Responsibilities

For development of Traction and Auxiliary energy storage systems, he/she utilises skills to specify the electrical components of energy storage systems and define the interfaces of electrical components within system and with connected systems. Responsibilities include : -

• Calculate electrical or thermal constraints related to components of power scheme using design rules and standards tools in line with Alstom expectations and rules to fulfil all customer and normative requirements.
• Define specifications for the electrical components of ESS and performs selection of components e.g. Power electronic components (IGBT, diodes, …), Power control devices (Switch, isolator, circuit breaker contactor, …..), Drives (motors, actuators, …….), Passive/ active components (transformers, inductors, capacitors, resistors, busbars, …), Interface components with control electronics (sensors, gate drives, relays, …).
• Specifie the power requirements to be exported to the control/command engineer (flux law, torque law, PWM strategy, protection thresholds, …).
• Write corresponding design reports and contribute to writing knowledge guidelines.
• Participate in the definition of validation tests of the power scheme with the validation engineer.
• Contribute to define rules and standard design deliverables and use standard design deliverables for Power scheme.
• Participate in design reviews, in the business award and components qualification.
• Prepare the power design reviews in accordance with DFQ process.
• Participate in investigation tests and contributes to the problem solving.
• Participate in technical core team meetings.
• In the context of calls for tenders, analyze the technical responses of suppliers and present the technical opinion for supplier choices.
• On request, participate in technical meetings with the customer in support of the development manager.
• Investigate technical facts during the warranty and reliability growth phase of the product, propose technical solutions and manage problem solving.
• Contribute to Return of Experience on power schemes and Electrical components. Ensure the capitalization of feedback on reference solutions or document repositories of the business.

Qualification, Knowledge & Experience

• BTech/ MTech degree in electrical engineering.
• Minimum 2 years in the design of energy storage systems or associated systems.
• Knowledge of constraints or standards for railway or high-power applications.
• Working knowledge of MATLAB, SABER, MATHCAD or CITHEL tools.
• Knowledge of industrial development cycles (V-cycle, quality reviews, ...)
• Fluency in English (spoken and written) required for internal and external communications.

You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!

Important to note

As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63  countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.

Job Type:​Experienced​