Power Electronics Lead, NA Region

Ricardo•Belleville, MI

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Ricardo Automotive and Industrial (A&I), a member of WSP, is a global engineering services partner for clean and efficient integrated propulsion and energy systems. With over 100 years of experience in transport and energy innovation, Ricardo A&I delivers solutions to complex challenges, enabling customers across all global transport and energy sectors to achieve a sustainable zero-carbon future. The company provides expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions, helping customers solve complex and dynamic challenges to achieve a safe and sustainable world. This role involves building and cultivating a Power Electronics team in the US, collaborating with global teams in the UK and Prague. The position supports the road mapping of future power electronics technologies for automotive and wider applications, focusing on higher voltage systems, cost-effective solutions, and novel topologies. The Lead will provide technical leadership in identifying and devising innovative engineering solutions, staying abreast of the latest power electronics technologies, and defining new opportunities. Responsibilities include supporting customer-facing technical meetings, proposal generation, leading customer power electronics projects, and supporting team and facility growth through recruitment. There is an opportunity to manage appropriate parts of the team.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering / Software Engineering / Electrical Engineering / Computer Science or equivalent (Master’s preferred)
Over 10 years of hands on experience required in the design, development and delivery of automotive power electronics covering inverters, DC/DC, power supplies etc.
Application experience with power switches including IGBT, MOSFET, SiC, GaN etc.
EMI and EMC experience.
Embedded control hardware application (uP, DSP, FPGA) – coding not expected – including power supply, interfacing and protection circuits.
Demonstrable experience with typical power electronics simulation and analysis approaches and software packages.
Experience of electronics manufacturing processes and new product introduction.
Must have successfully delivered, from a lead position, at least two significant vehicle programs (commercially, technically and on-time)
Strong product development work content, timing and deliverables knowledge.
Understands customer needs, wants and ensure on-going positive relationships.
Experience in project leadership and managing programs involving multiple disciplines and departments, without direct reports.
Strong problem solving, analytical and listening skills.
Self-motivated with excellent time management skills and attention to detail.
Ability to handle and maintain confidential information.
Ability to work well with people, in a team environment, and to communicate effectively both written & oral.
Ability to excel in a fast-paced, matrix organisation.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Engineering from an accredited institution.
10+ years professional systems engineering experience.
Automotive component development experience.
Able to dissect a system into logical components by function and or feature.
Able to identify critical interdependencies between systems and or components.
Experience with safety and/or ASPICE standards.
Experience with Agile Development Processes.

Responsibilities

Architect Power electronics projects from a Budget, resource, technical and stakeholder perspective.
Collaborate with senior leadership team to identify and create new service offerings in vehicle systems in the technology space of fuel cell, hybrid vehicle and autonomous vehicle.
Lead interfaces with multiple clients to identify potential needs.
Develop workable client solutions and integrates solutions into proposals.
Provide technical leadership in identifying and devising innovative solutions in engineering services.
Identifies, integrates and standardizes best practices with respect to key technical deliverables such as modeling and other technical analyses.
Develop the system requirements based upon and traced to the customer requirements for mechanical, electrical and software disciplines.
Utilize the system architecture provided by the core team to verify that the system requirements are satisfied by the system architecture. Updates system architecture as necessary.
Understand and document customer requirements using ALM tools. Manager and negotiate customer requirements, change requests, and unwritten expectations.
Documents system architecture in an unambiguous, clear, and understandable way that electrical, mechanical and software engineers know exactly what they must do in order to meet customer expectations.
Knowledge of all aspects of power conversion electronics.
Concept system and topology development for power conversion circuits.
Support local engineers in a line management role.