Engineer - Controls Engineering
GE Vernova — Chennai
₹7–12 LPA (HireSetu estimate) · Entry level · Freshers eligible · Full-time · onsite
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Quick answer: A fresher-level controls engineering job in Chennai for someone with a power electronics and drives education. Expect bench time in test labs and travel to customer sites alongside the Simulink work.
From GE Vernova's job posting
Job Description Summary
Systems engineering is a cross-functional engineering discipline centered on an approach, mindset, and process. All activities that consider both the business and the technical needs of the customers with the goal of providing a quality product that meets the users needs. The discipline that executes a robust process of design, creation, and optimization of systems, consisting of identification and quantification of system requirements, creation of alternate system design concepts, performance of design trade studies, selection and implementation of the best designs and verification that the design is properly integrated and executed. Process that proceeds from concept to production to operation.
Impacts quality of own work and the work of others on the team. Executes standard operational/technical tasks typically subject to instructions and work routines. There is latitude to rearrange the sequence to complete task/duties based on changing work situations.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Conducts component and product integration. All activities that span multiple components and products and are concerned with how to integrate for maximum performance and operability. Manages product and systems requirements, specifications and flow down. Drives validation and verification activities for the overall product/system, including system level testing. Responsible for defining product requirements for the module / component / subcontractors and partners teams. Manages interface between components and execution organizations.
Responsible for driving CTQ / Risk trades within the teams designing the components. Manages the overall product configuration and configuration control system.
- Broadening knowledge of own technical discipline to execute policy/strategy. May include support roles with specialized technical field of knowledge; still acquiring higher level knowledge and skills.
- Basic understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. Good understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.
- May have some autonomy to make decisions within a defined framework. Resolves issues in situations that require good technical knowledge and judgment within established procedures. Consults more senior team members for issues outside of defined instructions/parameters.
- A job at this level requires good interpersonal skills and may be required to lead a junior team. For customer facing roles, develops strong customer relationships and serves as the interface between customer and GE. Explains technical information to others.
Required Qualifications
- For roles outside of the USA- This role requires basic experience in the Engineering/Technology & Systems Engineering. Knowledge level is comparable to a Master's/Bachelor's degree in power electronics and drives and controls from an accredited university or college ( or a high school diploma with relevant experience).
- Good understanding of C, C++, Matlab and Simulink and other engineering tools and systems . Ability and willingness to work "hands-on" in test labs and Customer sites
Desired Characteristics
- Strong oral and written communication skills. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.
- Drive control, product development, control design and real time validation
Note
To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years' experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA, to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
Text from GE Vernova's official job posting, formatted by HireSetu. The employer's own page is the final word on details.
Drives and a test bench
Two things define this posting. The degree, power electronics and drives with controls. And the willingness to work hands-on in test labs and at customer sites. That second line carries more than it looks: drive cabinets, oscilloscopes, motor rigs, plus travel, on top of the modelling. A good chunk of the surrounding text is standard systems engineering language that shows up across engineering requisitions. The day-to-day sits close to a converter and its controller.
Fixed asks and nice-to-haves
Treat the degree and comfort with C, C++, MATLAB and Simulink as fixed, along with the lab and site willingness. The rest, communication, documentation, planning, drive control, product development, real-time validation, describes what the team hopes you grow into. A fresher whose master's project involved a real motor or converter can get a look without having run validation on a full rig. Ask how much travel the customer-site work involves in a year.
Getting past the first screen
The CV that works here leads with a project containing a motor or a converter: field-oriented control on a PMSM, a grid-tied inverter, a DC-DC converter, ideally a Simulink model that ended up running on hardware. Name the tools beside that project, Simulink and MATLAB for the model, C or C++ for the code on the controller. Lab or internship time in drives and power electronics counts for plenty. Generic coding projects and a long coursework list belong lower down.
Revise loops, sampling and the paperwork
Brush up on PI current and speed loops, tuning and anti-windup, PWM generation and deadtime in an inverter, and what changes when a continuous controller becomes fixed-step code on hardware. That last gap is where most fresher projects stop. The other half of the job is a requirement written in a document, traced to a test showing the design meets it. Verification and validation get named a lot here, so have one example from your own project ready to talk through.
CTQ and configuration control
CTQ means critical to quality: a measurable requirement the design has to satisfy, and the basis for the risk trades named in the posting. Engineers compare design alternatives against those measures and keep the choice on record, so a later change can be judged against the same requirement.
Configuration control is the version trail behind that record: which drawing, model or controller code is approved, what changed, and who authorised it. Interface management sits beside it, fixing the boundary between components and the teams that supply them, including what each side delivers and how the parts connect.
Compared with the other roles
A validation engineer in Hyderabad builds test setups and chases platform-level bugs; the embedded SW quality test engineer in Chennai writes test strategies and automated scripts. Integration, requirements flow-down and configuration control are core duties of the controls opening, with verification as one part of that chain.
The system engineer in Chennai reaches 4 years, while the project engineer and electrical engineer roles cap at 2. Noida and Pallavaram are the two bases for the project engineer, the electrical engineering role spans Noida and Bangalore. Controls starts at 0 and pairs C, C++, MATLAB and Simulink with hands-on lab and customer-site work on power conversion drives.
Prepared from GE Vernova's job posting and checked against it before publishing. See our Editorial Policy.
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