Digital Solution Engineering Specialist m/f/d (80-100%)

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You will be accountable for the operation, development, and maintenance of the UNITROL® digital products and services in ABB Energy Industries Switzerland for customers in Europe as well as worldwide. In this role you will use your experience and know how across electrical engineering, IT and Data Science fields to expand the overall digital portfolio of the excitation system segment as well as performing customer projects and support in the digital domain.

This position reports to

Manager Product Factories,GBL Excitation

Your responsibilities

• Envisioning and Creation of automation tools, software, and digital twins for the power system markets and for improvements of internal processes. Act as a Product Owner for the new developments.
• Definition and implementation of Internet of Things, remote connectivity, and cyber security solutions for safely gathering live data from unit’s operative at site.
• Take part in developing of dedicated machine learning and AI solutions applied on live datasets (time series and events) for condition monitoring, proactive maintenance, live optimizations, and smart recommendations.
• Internal and external trainings and support related to the digital products and the simulation and digital twin business of segment excitation.
• Executing customer projects in the power systems and digital domain.
• Contribute to the overall business and sales strategy for the digital products by participating in brainstorming sessions and occasionally performing customer presentations.

Your background

• Master’s degree from a high-level technical university/polytechnic school in electrical engineering, physics, mathematics, data science or similar.
• Domain expertise from previous experience in power systems, power generation market, and electrotechnical modeling.
• Previous participation in development of products/solutions in at least one between Internet of Things, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cyber security domains
• Sound knowledge of cloud computing solutions from one of the large cloud providers (AWS, MS Azure, Google cloud). Experience with MS Azure is preferred. Capability to lead product development in those areas. Experience in the client-server technologies (WEB development).
• Proficiency in data science and engineering software such as Python and MATLAB is seen as a strong asset.
• Team player sensitive to the commercial and strategic aspects of the business, with good communication skills, eager to learn and further develop his/her skillset in the specific domain.
• Fluent in English, proficiency in any other language is advantageous (one or more between German, French and Italian)

More about us

ABB is the world-leading supplier of state-of-the-art UNITROL® static excitation systems (SES) and automatic voltage regulators (AVR), as well as SYNCHROTACT® - products for synchronous machines. Our product responsible unit is in Turgi, Switzerland. ABB's worldwide presence is built on strong industry expertise, technical leading products, and ABB local competence centers on all continents. We enable our customers to master the challenges from the energy transition to renewables and to provide stable supply of electricity. This position is within a Swiss team with global responsibility to drive sales and to bring new products and innovation in digital services to the market. We generate direct sales to the European region and support our global teams with sales expertise and solutions. We look forward to receiving your application. The recruiting process is led by Ceren Oezen, Talent Partner ABB Switzerland Ltd. If you would like to learn more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. ABB Privacy Policy: https://new.abb.com/privacy-notice/candidate