Principal Engineer- Electronic Hardware

Overview

The energy transition drives an unprecedented growth in demand for and generation of electricity. To accommodate this growth, the capacity of transmission systems is projected to grow three-fold. High‑voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission systems will play a key role in connecting remote and offshore renewables, interconnecting energy markets, and reinforcing AC grids. Converter stations are required to convert AC to DC and vice versa.

The control and protection systems, the brain of such converter stations, ensure efficient, safe, and reliable operation of the power electronic valves and peripheral equipment. GE Vernova’s Grid Systems Integration business line offers control and protection solutions for both voltage‑sourced converter (VSC) and line‑commutated converter (LCC) HVDC valve technologies to meet the transmission planning needs of utilities, system operators, developers, and industrial clients worldwide.

Control & protection algorithms are required on dedicated state‑of‑the‑art digital hardware platforms that ensure signal‑processing capability, connectivity, and cyber security.

GE Vernova’s HVDC NPI team requires Principal Engineers who act as technical consultants, ensuring customer confidence, reviewing and enhancing design practices, acting as gatekeepers for technical reviews, applying lessons learned, leading complex, state‑of‑the‑art technology improvements, engaging with quality reviews, and cost optimization exercises both within their specialist domain and across other domains. We are looking for an experienced technical specialist to join us as Principal Engineer for HVDC Electronic Hardware, specializing in PCB power electronics.

• Serve as a recognized technical authority in HVDC Electronic Hardware both internally and externally, and act as technical advisor to senior leadership levels
• Actively contribute to and drive both internal and external standardisation, coordinate working‑group activities and proactively represent GE Vernova in IEC/CIGRE and similar professional bodies, task forces and industry committees
• Stay abreast of, collect and internally communicate state‑of‑the‑art technology developments in HVDC valves and applications
• Support internal stakeholders and consulting engineers to develop and maintain a strategic HVDC control & protection electronic hardware technology roadmap
• Suggest areas for technological advancement and recommend approaches/programs to pursue
• Participate in Patent Evaluation Board (PEB) to protect technology that gives the business a competitive advantage, as well as protecting the intellectual property rights of the company
• Oversee various R&D programmes from conception through to industrialisation, integrating new technology smoothly into production and ensuring successful project delivery
• Chair and act as technical authority in technology and product development gate reviews
• Collaborate and promote technology synergies across GE Vernova businesses of Power Conversion Systems, Grid Automation and Power Technology, utilising shared expertise and resources
• Lead/support project teams addressing identified project challenges in focused technical areas
• Support project technical tendering and delivery in the introduction of new solutions
• Support the quality teams on major quality issues and act as technical authority in root‑cause analysis processes
• Act as technical authority in competence management
• Act as a knowledge ambassador, providing technical education to external universities
• Consult with and support the Chief Engineer’s Office in executing the office’s technical objectives to implement best‑practice technologies and methods
• Provide technical consultation on product problems throughout the business including supplier and field support and perform technical rescues when needed
• Mentor and coach identified high‑potential engineering talents within one’s business lines
• Chair design reviews for individual components, sub‑assemblies and key engineering deliverables at tendering and contract execution stages. Support consulting engineers in governance and training to reinforce proper execution of design‑review guidelines