Power Electronics Lead, NA Region

Ricardo • Belleville, MI

2h • 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. They deliver solutions for complex challenges to achieve a sustainable zero-carbon future across global transport & energy sectors. The company provides leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions, helping customers solve complex and dynamic challenges for a safe and sustainable world. The Power Electronics Lead will build and cultivate a Power electronics team in the US, collaborating globally with UK and Prague teams. This role involves supporting the road mapping of future power electronics technologies for automotive and wider applications, including higher voltage systems, cost-effective solutions, and novel topologies. The lead will provide technical leadership in identifying and devising innovative engineering solutions, stay updated on the latest power electronics technologies, define opportunities, support customer-facing technical meetings and proposal generation, and lead customer power electronics projects across US, UK, and Prague. The position also supports the growth of facilities and the team through recruitment and offers the opportunity to manage appropriate parts of the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering / Software Engineering / Electrical Engineering / Computer Science or equivalent
• 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

• Build and cultivate Power electronics team in the US, with working globally with our UK and Prague power electronics teams
• Support the road mapping of future power electronics technologies for automotive and wider applications, including higher voltage systems, cost effective solutions and novel topologies
• Provide technical leadership in identifying and devising innovative solutions in engineering services
• Be on top of the latest power electronics technologies and define opportunities
• Support customer facing technical meetings and proposal generation
• Lead customer power electronics projects to be delivered in the US, UK and Prague
• Support the growth of our facilities and team through recruitment to match growing customer demands
• Opportunity to manage appropriate parts of the team
• 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
• 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
• Support local engineers in a line management role

Benefits

• Flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker
• Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential
• Remuneration and benefits package will reflect how much you are valued
• Range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior