Location: Knoxville, TN
Cap-Exempt H-1B Position — No lottery required
Requisition Id 16232 **Overview:** The Grid Systems Architecture (GSA) Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is actively seeking applicants for a temporary full-time Power Electronics Research Assistant position. This role focuses on advancing cutting-edge power electronic systems and their integration into the modern electric grid. You will develop innovative power electronic converters and control solutions and validate them through real-time modeling and simulation. The position requires a strong understanding of power electronic system requirements, from component-level design to full system integration, as well as embedded controller development. Experience in modeling converter topologies and distribution grids, developing control algorithms, and implementing controller code is expected. **Major Duties/Responsibilities:** - Conduct R&D projects and help the expansion of R&D to take advantage of our multidisciplinary capabilities, multimodal strengths, and unique tools and capabilities. - Be well versed in power converter topologies, and associated controls. - Should have a good knowledge base on the requirements and trends in futuristic power electronic converters and their components development. - Experience with DSP/FPGA/Microcontroller/Microprocessor (such as Raspberry Pi) platforms for controller development. - Network and develop collaborative R&D with other groups and divisions internally and with DOE, the industry, and the utilities. - Power electronics systems + distribution grid modeling - Have good oral and written skills so that they can prepare and present research results to sponsors, peer reviewers, industry partners and others and at technical meetings such as IEEE sponsored conferences. - Deliver ORNL’s mission by aligning behaviors, priorities, and interactions with our core values of Impact, Integrity, Teamwork, Safety, and Service. Promote equal opportunity by fostering a respectful workplace – in how we treat one another, work toge