R&D Control Software Engineer Medium Voltage Drives

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This position reports to Software R&D Team Lead

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will develop control software for medium voltage wind converters, shape the software architecture, and innovate within our products. In Turgi, Switzerland, you’ll work in an agile, intercultural team covering the full software development lifecycle.

If you're technically skilled, collaborative, and customer-oriented, this is your chance to make an impact.

The work model for the role is: hybrid #LI-hybrid

This role is contributing to the division Motion System Drives in Switzerland.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Researching and developing advanced control, modulation, and estimation methods including linear and nonlinear control for power conversion systems in Medium Voltage Drives, while ensuring alignment with application requirements.
• Designing and implementing embedded real-time software in modern C++ for various converter topologies (e.g., 3-level VSC, 5-level VSC, current source converters).
• Managing the full software development lifecycle, including requirements engineering, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance, to ensure high-quality and reliable solutions.
• Providing technical support to internal customers (Level 4, Commissioning) and executing comprehensive software tests to verify functionality and performance.

Qualifications for the role

• You hold a Master’s degree in Electrical engineering, Robotics or Software Engineering.
• You have at least 2 years of hands-on experience in embedded application design and C++ programming.
• You have a solid understanding of configuration management, code repositories, requirements management, version control, CI/CD processes, and various testing phases, including release testing.
• You bring knowledge of field-oriented control for motors and grid-connected converters.
• You show a keen interest in learning advanced modulation methods for three-phase systems (e.g., PWM, optimized pulse patterns) and advanced nonlinear control techniques.
• You have a basic understanding of MATLAB and Simulink for control concept validation and system-level simulation.
• Your effective communication aids you in thriving within international collaborations, characterized by your motivation, creativity, and self-management capabilities.

More about us

ABB System Drives is a global supplier of high-power, high-performance drives, drive systems and packages for industrial processes and large infrastructure applications. With our industry leading technology and global support, we help our customers, partners and equipment manufacturers with asset reliability, performance improvement and energy efficiency in mission critical applications. Our people and culture are the foundation of our success. We all together make the difference for our customers every day.

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We look forward to receiving your application (documents submitted in English are appreciated). The recruiting process is being led by Azra Filan, Talent Partner at ABB Switzerland Ltd. If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com.

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