Job Description Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Monitoring and Diagnostics team, based in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. Our mission is to develop state of the art monitoring technologies, generally deployed in an Electrical Substation, allowing a customer to understand and optimize the operating condition of their Electrical Power Transformers, circuit breakers and other substation assets.
During this 1-year internship, you will work among a talented and motivated R&D team, applying transformer monitoring technologies such as On-line Dissolved Gas Measurement, Bushing Measurement, Circuit-Breaker Monitoring amongst others.

About us
Come bring your energy to change the world
Grid Solutions, part of the GE Vernova portfolio of energy businesses, serves customers globally with over 12,000 employees. Grid Solutions provides equipment, systems, and services to bring power reliably and efficiently from the point of generation to end power consumers. We electrify the world with advanced grid technologies and accelerate the energy transition.
GE Vernova, a dynamic accelerator comprised of our Power, Renewable Energy, Digital, and Energy Financial Services businesses, is focused on leading a new era of energy - electrifying the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it.
If you are ready to make a difference and usher in a new era of energy, come join us.

What you would work on
We’re Grid Automation, part of the Grid Solutions business and a leader in the protection, control, and automation of the world’s power grids. If you’re looking for a software engineering career that can make a real difference to the world, we’d like to connect.

More sustainable grids require better visibility, faster controls, and advanced automation - challenges addressed through innovative and flexible software solutions. As part of our team, you could:

- Help develop new software tools and sophisticated control systems to enable next-generation networks
- Help create a fleet of intelligent edge devices to protect, control, and automate the grid
- Build control solutions for a microgrid
- Develop the algorithms and analytics that optimize the electrical grid and enable it to become autonomous

What’s in it for you?
Gain experience across new technologies
• Design and develop cloud applications, edge computing solutions, and AI analytics, utilizing technologies such as Kubernetes, Kafka, gRPC, Go, and JavaScript
• Implement microservice architecture and containerization to ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability of software solutions
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including requirement analysis, design, implementation, testing, and deployment
• Leverage state-of-the-art DevOps tools and practices, including Jenkins, Jira, and others, to support development and deployment processes
Advancement and training opportunities
• Take advantage of in-house and external training opportunities on new technologies
• Benefit from buddy, mentoring, and coaching programs
• Participate in our Affinity Network and be part of a diverse and inclusive community that enriches company culture through community involvement
Experience a global culture like no other
• Connect with R&D offices in France, UK, Spain, India, Canada, Brazil, and the US
• Work with cross-functional team members across the globe
• Collaborate online, join in-person working sessions, or apply to travel the world on international assignments
#GASW
GE Vernova. Change starts here.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Learn and understand the internal workings of embedded systems within GE transformer monitoring products, with support from relevant experts in the Engineering team
• Work within a team environment to execute appropriate firmware design tasks
• Work collaboratively with hardware and software testers to support new feature development of system and sub-components
• Support firmware development, design, and test of new features to enable new functionality and/or support new hardware components
• Develop automated test code for testing systems and sub-systems

Essential Criteria

• Completed at least 2 years study of degree level education or equivalent in Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, Electronic Engineering, or related degree, or equivalent knowledge or experience
• Programming experience in any language e.g. C, C++, Python etc.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and techniques
• Ability to work both with a team and independently and be self-motivated
• Ability to get projects/tasks across the line, to a high level of quality and within deadline and scope
• Ability to present complex data clearly with meaningful conclusions
• Work collaboratively with hardware designers to optimize software / hardware partitioning.
• Can communicate effectively to team members with and without embedded systems experience clearly and concisely on technical matters.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Must be organized and have methodical approach to problem solving.

Desired Criteria

• Familiarity with software development, defect tracking and test case management tools
• Experience of Linux based operating systems
• Experience of systems with complex, inter-dependent sub-component architecture and communication methods between these
• Understanding of development life cycles e.g. Agile, etc.
• The curiosity and enthusiasm to keep up to date with latest engineering techniques and products.
• The curiosity and enthusiasm to keep up to date with latest engineering techniques and products.
• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, non-EU/EEA candidates may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled EU/EEA candidate is available to take up the post, as the employing body is unlikely, in these circumstances, to satisfy the Resident Labour Market Test. For further information please visit the http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/visas-immigration/working - UK Border Agency website.

"Applications from all suitably qualified persons are welcome. However, as women are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law."

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