Senior/Staff Automation & Test Engineer
Hgen
Quality Assurance
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Posted on Aug 24, 2024
Hgen's mission is to achieve a clean and sustainable energy future through tackling emissions in hard-to-decarbonize industries. By enabling cheap and abundant clean hydrogen, Hgen aims to help decarbonize the more than 10% of global emissions that are best addressed with hydrogen. Learn more about why clean hydrogen is critical for achieving zero-emissions.
As a Senior Automation & Test Engineer, you will lead and implement solutions that enable the operation and characterization of our advanced electrolyzers from development test stands to large production-scale systems. You will have ownership of test, control and power systems that run and operate the electrolysis systems. This role will work with design engineering to develop scalable, cost-optimized solutions for scalable green hydrogen, from prototype to scale.
Responsibilities
- Develop architectures and designs for scalable process control and testing
- Design and build novel equipment and systems to support R&D operation and testing of electrochemical systems
- Draw and maintain P&ID's and process diagrams for systems
- Specify requirements, and select and source suppliers/partners for components and systems
- Deploy prototypes to the lab and products to the field
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
- 5+ years of experience in design and commission of automation and controls systems for industrial applications
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Experience with high pressure and gas and fluid control systems and ASTM ASME standards, ideally hydrogen, oxygen, DI/ultrapure water
- Experience with high voltage and high current power systems
- Experience in fast-paced iterative design and prototyping environments
- P&ID and electrical schematic experience
- PLC programming experience
- HMI and SCADA programming experience
- Field bus networks, serial communication, and Ethernet communication
- Hands-on experience building and commissioning high quality electrical control racks/panels and electro-mechanical systems
- Knowledge of NEC, NFPA 79, UL508A codes
Professional Qualities
- Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, enthusiasm for complex problem solving, and desire to optimize systems holistically
- Strong project management skills and effective communication of technical concepts across multi-disciplinary teams
- First principles based decision making
- Passionate about decarbonization and addressing climate change