Principal System Engineer - Inverter Systems

Role: Principal System Engineer - Inverter Systems

Hybrid: 3 days on site in Buckinghamshire & 2 days remote

Salary: £60,000 - £75,000 + Bonus + Benefits

Location: Buckinghamshire

We are currently recruiting for one of our customers in Buckinghamshire who specialise in motor design, and inverter hardware and software design for the automotive industry.

We're looking for a Principal Systems Engineer to lead and develop electric machine inverter systems and hybrid vehicle application projects.

As a Principal Systems Engineer, you will participate in and drive activities such as requirement specification, requirements management, system architecture design, software architecture design, implementation, Test planning, test and integration.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and manage requirements for inverter systems
• Drive and develop requirements management toolchain and support and develop systems and software process workflow
• Manage all V-cycle systems engineering activities - be the champion for systems engineering process and drive process management and improvements across the company
• Support SW team with development of control software for electric machine inverter systems and hybrid vehicle applications
• Support development of testing and validation plans for inverter systems
• Support system architecture design with model based tools (e.g. SysML)
• Drive ISO26262 functional safety activities for system, software and hardware
• Support system analysis activities such as FMEA, FTA, HAZOP
• Develop safety relevant requirements and software according to Automotive standards e.g. ISO26262
• Develop work products and requirements for conformance to ISO21434 Cyber Security Standard
• Drive awareness of cyber security within the business and ensure ISO21434 adherence goes beyond HW/SW team and is captured business wide.
• Support SW team to develop, test, validate and verify high level control algorithms in MATLAB & Simulink (eg: Motor control, FOC, battery voltage, engine cranking, Filtering, Fault handling, etc.)
• Support plant model development and test-harness creation
• Interfacing and supporting other teams & customers with Controls & Software topics
• Customer support for complex simulations including Travel to customer test facilities
• Support and mentor more junior team members in order to facilitate their professional development
• Participating / contributing to design reviews of software projects and product design
• Managing / coordinating engineering changes and maintain detailed design records
• Issue tracking & resolution using industry standard tools (e.g. JIRA)
• Support hardware commissioning, motor dyno testing and data analysis tasks for fault finding

Specialist Staffing Group is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

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