Senior/Staff Automation & Test Engineer

Los Angeles
Engineering /
Full-time /
On-site
Hgen's mission is to achieve a clean and sustainable energy future through tackling emissions in hard-to-decarbonize industries. By enabling cheap and abundant clean hydrogen, Hgen aims to help decarbonize the more than 10% of global emissions that are best addressed with hydrogen. Learn more about why clean hydrogen is critical for achieving zero-emissions.


As a Senior Automation & Test Engineer, you will lead and implement solutions that enable the operation and characterization of our advanced electrolyzers from development test stands to large production-scale systems. You will have ownership of test, control and power systems that run and operate the electrolysis systems. This role will work with design engineering to develop scalable, cost-optimized solutions for scalable green hydrogen, from prototype to scale.

Responsibilities

    • Develop architectures and designs for scalable process control and testing
    • Design and build novel equipment and systems to support R&D operation and testing of electrochemical systems
    • Draw and maintain P&ID's and process diagrams for systems
    • Specify requirements, and select and source suppliers/partners for components and systems
    • Deploy prototypes to the lab and products to the field

Basic Qualifications

    • Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
    • 5+ years of experience in design and commission of automation and controls systems for industrial applications

Preferred Skills and Experience

    • Experience with high pressure and gas and fluid control systems and ASTM ASME standards, ideally hydrogen, oxygen, DI/ultrapure water
    • Experience with high voltage and high current power systems
    • Experience in fast-paced iterative design and prototyping environments
    • P&ID and electrical schematic experience
    • PLC programming experience
    • HMI and SCADA programming experience
    • Field bus networks, serial communication, and Ethernet communication
    • Hands-on experience building and commissioning high quality electrical control racks/panels and electro-mechanical systems
    • Knowledge of NEC, NFPA 79, UL508A codes

Professional Qualities

    • Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, enthusiasm for complex problem solving, and desire to optimize systems holistically
    • Strong project management skills and effective communication of technical concepts across multi-disciplinary teams
    • First principles based decision making
    • Passionate about decarbonization and addressing climate change