Expert - Energy Storage System Solution and Architecture

Huawei Digital Power is a business unit within Huawei that provides Enterprise & Industry customers, products and solutions like clean power generation, transportation electrification, site power facilities, data center facilities, and embedded power. Huawei Digital Power is committed to integrate Digital and Power Electronics technologies to provide customers with high-quality, energy-efficient, green, and low-carbon power electronics products, facilitating their business success

The Power Conversion Technology Laboratory within Huawei’s Nuremberg Research Center is responsible for Advanced Digital Power Technology Research, Architecture Evolution Design and Strategic Technology Planning, and plays an important role in the Huawei Digital Power business in the design and development of power converters and control systems for applications such as PV Solar & Battery Energy Storage Field, Data Centers, Electric Vehicle, and Embedded Power Supply.

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Expert - Energy Storage System Solution and Architecture (m/f/d)

Become a key technical authority in our mission to develop next-generation energy storage system architectures and solutions. In this role, you will research and design advanced system architectures for utility-scale, commercial & industrial (C&I), renewable co-location and emerging high-power applications such as AI data centers.

In this role, you will lead the definition and evolution of end-to-end system architectures for utility-scale, commercial & industrial (C&I), renewable co-location and emerging high-power, high-availability applications such as AI/HPC data centers.

You will translate evolving application, grid and market requirements into system-level requirements, reference architectures and optimized product configurations. Working across batteries, DC/DC converters, power conversion systems (PCS), transformers, switchgear, protection, thermal management, automation and plant-level control, you will ensure architectural coherence from the grid connection down to the battery and DC subsystem.

As a senior individual-contributor technical leader, you will bridge advanced research, product strategy and engineering implementation. Your work will shape future BESS products and technology roadmaps with higher efficiency, availability, safety, flexibility, scalability and lifecycle value, while addressing the rapidly evolving requirements of European power systems.

Your mission

• Future BESS Applications & System Requirements: Analyze future application requirements for utility-scale and C&I energy storage, including renewable co-location, PV + BESS, AI data centers, large industrial sites, and hybrid behind-the-meter and front-of-the-meter systems. Translate market and application trends into future system and product requirements.

• Next-Generation BESS Architecture: Research and develop advanced ESS/BESS architectures covering system topology, battery configuration, DC distribution, power conversion, protection, thermal management and system-level control. Explore new architectures to improve system efficiency, reliability, safety, power density, scalability and lifecycle value.

• AC/DC Coupling & Requirement Translation: Develop and optimize AC- and DC-coupled system architectures and translate grid-side and application requirements into DC-side specifications, including battery configuration, DC voltage/current range, DC/DC topology, PCS sizing, energy-to-power ratio, protection and control requirements.

• Grid Integration & System Control: Analyze grid codes and system requirements including active/reactive power capability, overload and short-circuit behavior, voltage and frequency support, power quality and grid-forming operation. Develop corresponding system architectures and coordinated control concepts for batteries, PCS, DC/DC converters and plant-level controllers.

• System Modeling & Architecture Optimization: Develop and apply system-level modeling, simulation and architecture evaluation methodologies using tools such as MATLAB/Simulink, PSCAD, PLECS, PowerFactory or equivalent platforms. Evaluate architecture alternatives and optimize efficiency, availability, lifetime, performance, scalability and total cost of ownership.

• System Integration & Validation: Drive cross-disciplinary integration of battery systems, PCS, DC/DC converters, protection and plant-level control. Support prototype development, CHIL/PHIL testing, system-level validation and engineering verification to bring new system concepts from research into practical product solutions.

• Technology Insights & Standardization: Track emerging technologies including high-voltage DC architectures, advanced PCS and DC/DC topologies, grid-forming BESS, multi-converter systems and hybrid energy storage. Follow relevant European grid codes, standards and standardization activities and provide technical insights for future product development.

• Technology Roadmap & External Collaboration: Collaborate closely with Huawei Headquarters research and product teams to develop future technology roadmaps and translate advanced research into products. Build strong cooperation with leading European universities, research institutes and industrial partners.

Your areas of expertise

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, Power Systems, Energy Systems, Control Engineering or a closely related field.

• Typically 10+ years of industrial or applied R&D experience in battery energy storage, grid-scale power conversion, power systems or similarly complex electrical energy systems, with demonstrated senior or principal-level technical responsibility.

• Deep expertise in BESS electrical architecture, power conversion and grid integration, combined with strong system-level understanding of batteries and BMS, DC/DC converters, PCS/inverters, transformers, switchgear, protection, thermal management, automation and plant-level control.

• Proven experience defining complex system architectures, reference architectures, system requirements, subsystem interfaces or high-level technical specifications.

• Strong capability to translate grid, market and application requirements into system architecture and component-level technical specifications.

• Solid expertise in power electronics, grid-connected energy storage, grid codes, grid-forming technologies and coordinated control of complex multi-converter systems.

• Strong experience in system modeling and simulation for architecture design and optimization, using MATLAB/Simulink, PSCAD, PLECS, PowerFactory or comparable tools.

• Experience in architecture trade-off analysis considering efficiency, reliability, availability, safety, lifetime, scalability, performance and total cost of ownership.

• Hands-on experience in prototype development, system integration, CHIL/PHIL testing, engineering validation, commissioning or product development is highly valued.

• Proven technical leadership and project management experience, with the ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and drive complex R&D projects from concept and prototyping toward product implementation.

• Strong communication skills and experience working in international and cross-functional teams.

• Fluent in English.

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Your rewards of working here

• Our culture is characterized by innovative power and team spirit as well as the intensive exchange of knowledge and experience within our global network.

• We offer healthy meals ranging from traditional Chinese to western delicacies in our famous company canteen.

• To keep your development ongoing, you will find a broad range of training opportunities. Many online and face-to-face training programs incl. language courses in German and Mandarin.

• Our diverse and welcoming environment is shaped by different backgrounds and around 40 individual nationalities.

• Self-responsible work in a competent, motivated and constantly growing team.
  

Please send your application and CV (incl. cover letter and reference letters) in English.

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