Control Engineer for Optimization and Validation
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 3, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 29, 2026.
Job ID
305374
Location
Spain
Vizcaya/Bizkaia
Zamudio
Remote vs. Office
Hybrid (Remote/Office)
Company
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Eolica, S.L.U
Organization
Wind Power
Business Unit
Technology
Full / Part time
Full-time
Experience Level
Professional / Experienced
A Snapshot of Your Day
Join our dynamic team at Siemens Energy as a Senior Control Engineer, where your expertise will play a crucial role in shaping the future of wind power technology! Imagine tuning, optimizing, and validating control systems for cutting-edge wind turbines, ensuring they operate at peak performance throughout their lifecycle. You will collaborate closely with a talented international team of engineers, gaining insights from various disciplines such as loads and aerodynamics. Your contributions will directly enhance the competitiveness of our products, making a significant impact on the wind energy sector.
How You’ll Make an Impact
- You will take technical responsibility for tuning, optimizing, and validating wind turbine control systems, balancing energy production, mechanical loads, and operational availability
- Collaborate with functionality development teams to identify and evaluate improvements to control strategies, enhancing turbine performance and reliability.
- Tune and optimize control parameters for various turbine types and operating conditions, ensuring stability and robustness across the defined operating envelope.
- Plan and execute software-in-the-loop simulations to validate control functionalities and parameter settings against performance and safety requirements.
- Support the commissioning and field validation of prototypes and fleet turbines, analyzing operational data to verify compliance with design specifications.
What You Bring
- You hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Control and Automation, Mechanical, Electrical, or Electronic Engineering, or possess equivalent relevant experience.
- You have proven experience in control system tuning, optimization, and validation, ideally within the wind turbine sector or similar dynamic systems.
- Your strong understanding of control theory and system dynamics allows you to assess trade-offs between energy production and mechanical loads effectively.
- Proficiency in MATLAB and Simulink is essential, along with hands-on experience in simulation-based verification and diagnosing control-related issues.
- You are a self-starter with excellent communication skills, capable of thriving in a global team environment and articulating technical findings clearly.
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo
Our Commitment to Diversity
Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character - no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.
Rewards/Benefits
The opportunity to work in an exciting international environment on meaningful projects.
International environment
Career growth and development opportunities
Supportive diverse work culture!
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