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IT Infrastructure Development Intern

Job Description

Job Title: IT Infrastructure Development Intern

Department: R&D Innovation Lab

Application Closing: ASAP

Supervisor: Quentin Morel, Director, Power Grid Modernization and Industrial IoT

Location: Los Altos, CA or remote (USA)

Schedule: Part-time (15-20 hours/week)

Compensation: Paid, compensation commensurate with experience

Job Summary:

EDF (Électricité de France) is a global, integrated energy company and the world’s largest electricity producer. With 140 GW of generation capacity across more than 30 countries, EDF generates over 650 TWh of electricity for 38 million customers, and 85% of that electricity has low or no carbon emissions. With 160,000 employees worldwide, EDF is active in the entire value chain of the electric industry, including R&D, project development, generation, trading, transmission, distribution, sales, and energy services. In the US, EDF’s operations include EDF Renewables North America, EDF Energy North America, EDF R&D, and several smaller business units. EDF R&D has 1,800 researchers and 8 labs, including three in France, EDF Innovation Lab in the US, and others globally. Their role is to provide R&D, innovation, and business development support to the EDF Group. This is done by creating partnerships and collaborations with leading research institutions and industries and the identification and development of innovative technologies and solutions.

EDF Innovation Lab (EDF IL)’s mission is twofold: first, to explore, analyze and research trends and disruptive technologies for EDF Group in North America, leveraging the innovation of Silicon Valley and building local partnerships; and second, to develop and test new markets, innovative businesses and services, to support EDF Group’s growth in decentralized, data-driven and low-carbon energy sectors.

EDF Innovation Lab is spearheading the deployment of an internal EDF energy data platform that transforms the way renewable energy owners and operators manage their assets.  We are looking to hire a part-time team member to build the configuration tool used to orchestrate (update and configuration changes) the platform at the edge.

This will be an exciting role for someone with a strong IT background and interests in innovation in the Power Grid and Energy Industry. The intern will be a part of the EDF IL team and will have easy access to all the Lab resources including people to support their work.

Duties/Responsibilities:

Specific duties and responsibilities include, among others:

• Work with enterprise software tools (e.g., Red Hat) to build software orchestration tools that automate updates and reconfiguration for EDF’s internal software at the edge.
• Configure the orchestration tools in our AWS environment to test them on EDF software.
• Configure credentials and inventory access between software on AWS EC2 virtual machines.
• Expand testing to more complex orchestration scenarios between EDF software and the orchestration tools.

All of these tasks will be related to the work already carried out by the EDF Innovation Lab in previous years.

Education and Experience:

• Pursuing a degree in engineering (Undergraduate, Master, PhD) with sufficient experience or knowledge of IT systems, Linux, and Python.
• Excellent writing and presentation skills

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Ability to structure and deliver analyses/work with minimal supervision
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills (strong English skills required)
• Good interpersonal relationship skills

Disclaimer:

• May perform other duties assigned

How to Apply:

• Send a Resume/CV and Cover Letter to quentin.morel@edf-inc.com with ‘Intern, Smart Grid’ in the subject line.  In the cover letter, please include any experience with IT systems and distributed computing infrastructure.

EDF Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for all positions without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

 

Smart Grid Intern

Job Description

Job Title: Smart Grid Intern

Department: R&D Innovation Lab

Application Closing: ASAP

Supervisor: Yvan Lazard, Smart Grid Analyst

Location: Los Altos, CA or remote (USA)

Schedule: Full-time/Part-time

Compensation: Paid, compensation commensurate with experience

Job Summary:

EDF (Électricité de France) is a global, integrated energy company and the world’s largest electricity producer. With
140GW of generation capacity across more than 30 countries, EDF generates over 650 TWh of electricity for 38 million customers, and 85% of that electricity has low or no carbon emissions. With 160,000 employees worldwide, EDF is active in the entire value chain of the electric industry, including R&D, project development, generation, trading, transmission, distribution, sales, and energy services. In the US, EDF’s operations include EDF Renewables North America, EDF Energy North America, EDF R&D, and several smaller business units. EDF R&D has 1,800 researchers and 8 labs, including three in France, EDF Innovation Lab in the US, and others globally. Their role is to provide R&D, innovation, and business development support to the EDF Group. This is done by creating partnerships and collaborations with leading research institutions and industries and the identification and development of innovative technologies and solutions.

EDF Innovation Lab (EDF IL)’s mission is twofold: first, to explore, analyze and research trends and disruptive
technologies for EDF Group in North America, leveraging the innovation of Silicon Valley and building local partnerships;
and second, to develop and test new markets, innovative businesses and services, to support EDF Group’s growth in
decentralized, data-driven and low-carbon energy sectors.

EDF Innovation Lab is building an expertise about the integration of DER (Distributed Energy Resources) in the powergrids. The objective is to leverage existing tools and algorithms and to develop a skillset on DER Integration.

This will be an exciting role for someone with strong technical and interests in innovation in the Power Grid and Energy Industry. The intern will be a part of the EDF IL team and will have easy access to all the Lab resources including people to support her/his work.

Duties/Responsibilities:

Specific duties and responsibilities include, among others:

– Perform Smart Grid surveys on different topics including medium voltage direct current, distributed energy resources impact on distribution grids and grid-forming inverters.

– Work with partners (especially EPRI) on innovative Smart Grid projects (for example, inverters settings in the
USA).

– Study the solar panel supply chain in terms of price and regulations in the US.

You will get to learn a lot about power grids, challenges the utilities face, and the energy industry.

All of these tasks will be related to the work already carried out by the EDF Innovation Lab in previous years.

Education and Experience:

– Pursuing a degree in engineering (Undergraduate, Master, PhD) with sufficient experience or knowledge of the
power grids and Distributed Energy Resources Integration.

– Excellent writing and presentation skills.

Required Skills/Abilities:

– Ability to structure and deliver analyses/work with minimal supervision.

– Ability to read and synthesize a significant amount of technical knowledge.

– Ability to work in a multicultural environment.

– Strong verbal and written communication skills (strong English skills required).

– Good interpersonal relationship.

Disclaimer:

– May perform other duties assigned.

How to Apply:

– Send a Resume/CV and Cover Letter to yvan.lazard@edf-inc.com with ‘Intern, Smart Grid’ in the subject line.

– The recruitment process will include a case study after the first round of interviews.

EDF Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for all positions without
regard to race, color, age, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran
status, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.