Lead Modeling & Simulation Engineer

Job Description Summary

Help shape the control systems behind wind turbines by building the models engineers use to test, validate, and improve performance before issues reach the field. In this role, you will lead the development of MATLAB and Simulink simulation models that support control software for critical wind turbine systems.

You will join the Software Architecture and Simulation Tools team and work across controls, systems, software, and test engineering to create reliable, reusable models that improve product quality and help teams solve complex technical problems earlier.

You are likely to be a strong fit if you enjoy turning engineering requirements, datasheets, and test results into practical models that help teams make better decisions.

Job Description

What You’ll Do :

• Lead the full model development lifecycle, from requirements clarification and functional specification through implementation, review, validation, documentation, and release.
• Develop and maintain modular MATLAB and Simulink models for wind turbine sensors, actuators, and control logic, including pitch, yaw, braking, condition monitoring, and auxiliary systems.
• Translate supplier datasheets, interface definitions, and test data into model equations, parameters, operating limits, and acceptance criteria, while documenting assumptions and gaps.
• Build models that reflect real system behavior, including delays, saturation, noise, drift, filtering, rate limits, hysteresis, diagnostics, and fault responses.
• Define and automate requirements-based verification and validation activities, including regression testing for normal operation, transients, limits, and fault conditions.
• Support closed-loop simulation and model-in-the-loop (MIL), software-in-the-loop (SIL), and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) activities, and investigate differences between simulated and measured behavior.
• Provide technical leadership by leading reviews, mentoring engineers, and improving modeling standards, reusable libraries, and release practices.

Required :

• Bachelor’s degree in Control Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Significant experience in modeling and simulation engineering, including ownership of technical deliverables and technical leadership responsibilities.
• Strong hands-on experience with MATLAB and Simulink for structured model development, scripting, debugging, automation, and reusable component design.
• Proven experience building dynamic models of sensors and actuators and implementing control logic from requirements, specifications, datasheets, or experimental data.
• Strong understanding of control theory, feedback systems, continuous-time and discrete-time dynamics, numerical simulation, and model verification and validation.

Preferred :

• Experience with wind turbine controls and operation, especially pitch, yaw, braking, drivetrain interfaces, operating states, and fault handling ,safety chain.
• Experience with tools such as Stateflow, Simulink Test, Simulink Coverage, Requirements Toolbox, System Identification Toolbox, or similar.
• Experience with Python or C/C++, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) platforms setup and maintenance, and requirements or lifecycle management tools such as IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) or DOORS Next.

Why This Role :

Your work will help teams evaluate system behavior earlier, improve validation quality, and strengthen the reliability of wind turbine control software. GE Vernova supports your growth with competitive benefits, learning opportunities, and career development designed to help you build your future while contributing to a world that works.

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