Postdoctoral Researcher – High Performance Computing and Emulation of Hybrid Systems
NREL’s 305-acre Flatirons Campus is the nation’s premier wind energy, water power, and grid integration research facility. Nestled south of Boulder, Colorado, and north of NREL’s main South Table Mountain campus, Flatirons sits adjacent to the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge and countless acres of open space and parks with stunning views of the Flatirons rock formations.
From day one at NREL, you’ll connect with coworkers driven by the same mission to save the planet. By joining an organization that values a supportive, inclusive, and flexible work environment, you’ll have the opportunity to engage through our eight employee resource groups, numerous employee-driven clubs, and learning and professional development classes.
Job Description
NREL is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to develop modeling and controls capabilities for hybrid energy systems of the future. This will feature development in a high-performance computing and emulation environment. This emulation framework will integrate real physical devices into a computational and a communication framework that operates on a high-performance computer, the cloud, and edge devices. The computational framework will need to scale from tens of large-scale devices (MW scale) to millions of smaller physical devices, emulated devices, and simulated devices to demonstrate that heterogeneous devices can work together as a hybrid system to provide different services. This will feature integration of technologies such as wind, solar, storage, the grid on the transmission and/or the distribution system.
What to Expect:
- Develop and implement integrated technology models for designing and operating hybrid energy systems.
- Deploy large-scale strategies such as scalable optimization for operating systems with tens to millions of simulated and real-world devices in real-time.
- Use a variety of simulation tools including, OpenDSS, EnergyPlus.
- Work with a variety of customers including the US Department of Energy wind energy technology office.
- Work collaboratively with other national laboratories, industry and the international community and execute wind energy related engineering projects worldwide.
- Help publish results in technical journals/conference proceedings and present work at conferences, symposia, and sponsor review meetings.
- Support the development of new work proposals, preparations, and reviews.