Internship in Research & Digitalisation (80-100%)

We offer an 8-12 months internship in our Research & Digitalisation team in Aarau. You will gain professional experience in the energy industry and insight into the tasks of a transmission system operator.

Internship in Research & Digitalisation (80-100%)


Electricity moves our lives and we move electricity! Swissgrid is proud of its employees, who work daily to ensure a secure supply of power in Switzerland. Their expertise and dynamism make them part of our energy.


Your responsibilities

• As an intern in the Research and Digitalisation team you independently take over delegated development projects, preferably on one of the following two topics:
  
  • Coordinated maintenance scheduling and congestion management in electric power systems
  • Flexibility coordination schemes for transmission and distribution system operators
  
  
• Depending on the business needs and your interests, you support your team members in additional or alternative ongoing development projects.


• You carry out research, develop or extend concepts, problem formulations and solution approaches, design algorithms, and document the results in reports.


• You implement the solutions and algorithms into software prototypes and build simple Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) to facilitate usage of the prototypes.


• You set up simulation case studies to demonstrate the benefits of the developed solutions.


• You coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that the developed approaches are aligned with the overall requirements and business needs.