Senior Research and Development Engineer - Software

Senior R&D Engineer 1

Location:

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Job ID:

R0117601

Date Posted:

2026-01-27

Company Name:

HITACHI ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED

Profession (Job Category):

Engineering & Science

Job Schedule: 

Full time

Remote:

No

Job Description:

The opportunity:

Hitachi Energy is a pioneering technology leader that is helping to increase access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all. We help to power your home, keep the factories running, and our hospitals and schools open. Come as you are and prepare to get better as you learn from others. Bring your passion, bring your energy, and plug into a team that appreciates a simple truth: Diversity + Collaboration = Great Innovation. Hitachi Energy India Development Centre (IDC), is a research and development facility with around 500 R&D engineers, specialists, and experts, who focus on creating and sustaining digital solutions, new products and technology. This includes product integration, testing, cybersecurity, and certification.  The India Development Centre is situated in Chennai and Bangalore. You will be part of Hitachi Energy’s Automation and Communication business in Bangalore. We are responsible for development of protection and control products for power generation, transmission and sub-transmission network applications. Our product offer includes IEDs in the Relion 670/650 series as well as the COMBIFLEX family.

How you’ll make an impact:

• You as a Sr. Software R&D Engineer would be responsible for developing PC based desktop applications & products                                                                        
• Participate in product requirement workshop to understand the product development requirements and performs software-focused development activities on system/product projects, including design, coding and unit testing of software modules in line with the quality management system
• Develops new and adapted design of software modules, system setups and system integration                                                                 
• You also need to partner well with a variety of different product stakeholder groups, including management at different levels, business analysts and developer’s community                              
• You will also be technically responsible to ensure the mutual consistency and efficient integration of the several subsystems in modular, easy-to-maintain and extendible software that meets the product specification .
• You will be responsible for ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.                                                    
• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background:

• Required bachelor or master’s degree in computer science / Engineering with 3 to 8 years of practical experience as a Software developer in windows application development environment.
• You should have expert knowledge in Software Development Process with extensive experience in various design patterns with Object Oriented Analysis and Design Methodologies. 
• Strong object-oriented programming and design skills
• Expert in Microsoft .NET framework and related technologies; C#, WPF, XML, SQL Server etc. in developing PC based desktop applications.

• Expert knowledge of Design patterns & multithreading
• Good at Code Analysis, Debug, Unit test, Profiling and other SW development tools
• Tools – Azure DevOps, GIT, Enterprise Architect, Visual Studio 2019+ and any memory profiling tools
• Desirable Knowledge of Power Systems Domain and knowledge on IEC61850 standards will be an added advantage.

More about us

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Experience Level

Senior Level