Ingénieur-Chercheur (H/F)

You will work at the EDF R&D China center located in Beijing. The main missions of R&D China center are to provide technical support to EDF China’s business units, and link with the very dynamic local innovation ecosystem. You will join the center as a “Electrification Research Engineer”. You will work within a small research team closely linked to EDF R&D’s international experts, and in interaction with business units and local academic partners and research labs. The position focuses on electrification technologies to decarbonize the key industry sectors. The core research scope covers industrial electrification technologies such as high temperature heat pumps, electric boilers and electric furnaces for high temperature application scenarios (>800C), innovative electrification solutions for agriculture, or relevant innovations. Leveraging on a comprehensive vision on Europe and China’s electrification roadmap, you will study and evaluate critical situations, technical solutions and business models to support the deployment of electrification during energy transition. As a VIE, you will support a broad range of Electrification R&D activities, that may include: • Support technical research, feasibility study for industrial electrification project based on different energy market scenarios. • Technical-economic analyses , or modeling of different technical solutions, including heat pumps and its hybrid solution with thermal storage or MVR (Mechanical Vapor Recompression), electric boilers, electric furnaces, or other electrification technologies. • Track industry policy and market trend, identify innovative solutions, technologies, or products, support internal technical iteration and knowledge accumulation. • Experimental data acquisition and analyses. • Participate to build research collaboration programs with academic and research institutes partners.

EDUCATIONAL LEVEL  Bac + 5 DEGREE(S) : PhD, Master 2, Ingénieur... SPÉCIALIZATION : electric power system, power electronics, control engineering, energy engineering, INSTITUTIONS /SCHOOLS : Mines, Centrales, CentraleSupélec, etc... REQUIRED LANGUAGE(S) in order of priority: 1. English 2. Chinese 3. French Others skills : Technical : • Solid understanding of industrial production workflow, heat transfer and heat recovery, heating systems (Heat pump, electric heater/boiler/furnace, etc) and energy consumption characteristics. • Familiar with thermodynamic modeling, process modeling or energy efficiency analysis. • Familiar with industrial simulation software such as Aspen Plus, HYSYS, PRO/II, ProSim, etc. Proficient in Python language. • Practical working experiences in utility companies on industry electrification will be a strong plus. Personal: • Professional, positive attitudes with strong communication skills; both written and oral, • Strong logic thinking, self-motivated, ability to work efficiently both individually and in a team, • Rigorous, data sensitivity and able to handle multi-task technical work. • Motivated to tackle new problems and take on new responsibilities, • Attracted by a career in a large multicultural and international group.