About this role
At the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES, the energy transition becomes a reality every day. Our focus topics are: offshore wind energy, hydrogen, test infrastructure and digitization. More than 400 employees – including around 100 students – from over 50 countries work at nine locations in scientific and non-scientific teams on the development of innovative methods to accelerate the expansion of the wind energy and hydrogen economy, minimize risks, and increase cost efficiency. Do you want to join us in shaping a sustainable future?
Be part of change
You will join our "Power Electronics and Grid Integration" group at our site in Bremerhaven. Our work deals with the grid integration of wind turbines as well as wind farms and hybrid farms. At present, the team consists of five employees and several students. We support each other irrespective of our projects and backgrounds. A culture of open exchange and cooperation, even beyond team boundaries and sites, are particularly important to us.
You will be involved in various research and industry projects, with duties ranging from supporting the commissioning of a converter test bench to optimizing and expanding other test benches with a special focus on the “Power Hardware-in-the-loop (PHiL)” approach. While working with various real-time systems and setting up grid models, you will develop test methods to generate measurement data for the validation of harmonic and EMT models. To present your results to the public, you will write scientific reports and publications.
You will take on project management tasks and, over time, also lead research and development projects. In addition, you will work on the test bench and actively engage in the preparation of a test campaign. Throughout all these projects, you will be in close contact with national and international customers and project partners.