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This Position reports to:
Research Team Manager - Power Electronic Systems

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to gain vocational experience through a temporary work placement (4 months). Each day, you will acquire knowledge by performing tasks as directed. You will also showcase your expertise by supporting ABB's operations and enhancing personal education/employment opportunities.

ABB is a leader in medium-voltage drives technology. The purpose of the internship is to evaluate tailored modulation and control strategies for ABB's existing drives. In particular, this includes evaluating the state-of-the-art that is currently used by ABB, and identifying where advanced modulation and control strategies can bring tangible performance improvement in existing hardware.

The work model for the role is: onsite

This role is contributing to the Corporate Research Center, Industrial Solutions department in the Power Electronics System group in Baden-Dättwil, Switzerland.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Deriving a tailored, optimized modulation method for an existing ABB product.
• Deriving a model predictive control method that completes the modulation method.
• Comparison with the current-state-of-the-art used at ABB.
• Writing high-quality documentation for the proposed methods.

You will join a small but knowledgeable team, where you will be able to thrive.

Qualifications for the role

• Currently pursuing a degree in electrical engineering (M.Sc. degree); official enrollment essential.
• Possess knowledge of programming skills (preferably MATLAB)
• You have experience in model predictive control and optimization, as well as knowledge about modulation methods used in power electronics
• You are self-organized, with the ability to work independently. Consulting and, importantly, challenging your supervisor are encouraged.
• You are at ease communicating in English
• You hold a current valid VISA/work permit for Switzerland or a confirmation for a mandatory internship from your university

More about us

ABB Corporate Research, in close cooperation with varied ABB business areas, is developing the foundations for the next generation of ABB products. In Switzerland, ABB Corporate Research, located in the proximity of Zurich, employs about 120 scientists from over 20 countries with expertise in automation and power technologies for manufacturing, consumer and process industries as well as power utilities

We look forward to receiving your application. The recruiting process is led by Talent Partner Angelina Kothe. If you would like to learn more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com.

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