R&D Director / R&D Manager
- Industry
Energy Systems / Clean Energy / Industrial Control
- Company
Taiwan company
- Location
Taipei
- Job Type
Permanent
- Consultant
Contact Us
5F, No. 167, Dunhua N Rd., Songshan Dist., Taipei City, 10549, Taiwan
R&D Director / R&D Manager
Summary
This role leads the Energy Control and R&D organization, responsible for defining system control architecture and long-term technical roadmap.
You will integrate power electronics, control algorithms, and software platforms to drive the development and deployment of hydrogen fuel cell systems and energy management solutions, ensuring alignment with business strategy and market needs.
This position is a core technical leadership role, offering direct influence over product direction, system architecture decisions, and the evolution of the company’s energy business.
The role provides clear growth potential toward broader technical leadership or CTO-level responsibilities, with exposure to overall business unit development.
Responsibilities
- Define overall technical solution architecture and application strategy for energy management and automation systems, aligning customer requirements with internal R&D capabilities.
- Act as the primary technical authority interfacing with key customers and strategic partners, translating system requirements into actionable engineering specifications.
- Lead control strategy definition, simulation analysis, and system-level validation to support customer use cases and field applications.
- Guide application and engineering teams in using MATLAB / Simulink to evaluate control logic, optimize parameters, and assess system performance.
- Coordinate integration of energy control platforms across grid systems, hydrogen fuel cells, and power conversion devices to meet customer and regulatory requirements.
- Oversee implementation of control software and hardware solutions (PLC-based systems, C#, LabVIEW), ensuring consistency between field application needs and system design.
- Design and review communication architectures (Modbus RTU/TCP, CAN, Ethernet) to ensure stable, scalable data exchange in customer deployments.
- Support pre-sales and post-sales technical activities, including solution proposals, technical reviews, system demonstrations, and issue resolution.
- Lead cross-functional alignment between application engineering, R&D, manufacturing, and quality teams to ensure successful system delivery and deployment.
- Drive issue triage, root cause analysis, and corrective actions for customer-reported technical issues.
- Contribute technical input to large-scale or government-funded energy projects, supporting proposal reviews, technical feasibility assessments, and execution planning.
- Mentor and develop application and field engineering teams, strengthening customer-facing technical capability and solution ownership.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree or above in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Control Engineering, or related fields.
- 12+ years of experience in energy management or control system R&D, including 5+ years managing teams of 15+ engineers.
- Strong experience with MATLAB / Simulink modeling and control strategy implementation.
- Solid background in control theory (PID, MPC, state-space models).
- Hands-on experience with EMS / BMS / FCS architectures and system integration.
- Familiarity with PLC, C#, LabVIEW control logic and software workflows.
- Experience with Modbus, CAN, Ethernet communication protocols.
- Strong system modeling, data analysis, and performance evaluation skills.
- Proven cross-functional coordination and decision-making capability.
- Good English communication and technical documentation skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience delivering large-scale projects in clean energy, hydrogen systems, energy storage, or automotive control.
- Familiarity with functional safety standards (IEC 62282, ISO 26262, IEC 61508).
- Experience leading cross-border or multi-disciplinary technical collaborations.
Personal Attributes
- Strong systems-thinking mindset with the ability to align technology and business goals.
- Effective communicator with strong leadership presence.
- Passionate about clean energy, control systems, and applied R&D, with a drive to bring innovation into production.
Post Time｜2026/01/14
