Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo, member of WSP, is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

The Role

Our Control and Electronics group is responsible for the specification, implementation and validation of complex control systems for a wide range of clean propulsion and energy systems, including: xEV powertrains, power electronics, motors and drives, engines, transmissions, battery management systems, advanced thermal systems, and fuel cell systems. Our support to customers covers the full spectrum of control software development, from core algorithm development and base software development, through to fully validated production control systems, including ASIL rated software. In this role, you will be primarily focused on working with Ricardo’s team and trusted partner network to deliver base software solutions, configuration of AUTOSAR tools and software integration/test applied to a wide range of applications.

Principal Engineer

To lead technical teams and deliver client projects:

• Technical leadership of teams of engineers involved in development of embedded software, including embedded software, systems, control, and functional safety engineers.
• Technical development of embedded software, covering requirements specification, software implementation, verification and validation, including embedded software test via MiL/SiL, PiL, HiL and on physical test-rigs and vehicles.
• Interface directly with clients on technical issues.
• Develop and maintain network of trusted partners to provide capacity.
• Lead coordination of engineering teams, drawing on engineers from within Ricardo and from partners.
• Focus on delivery of projects on-time and on-budget.
• Technical negotiations with clients and support of commercial discussions.
• Driving the further introduction of quality procedures and validation processes.
• Support of the sales teams in the development of market opportunities through client interaction, proposal support and roadmap development.
• Promotion of capability throughout Ricardo’s global customer base.
• Provide technical input to Embedded Software team strategic development.
• Drive the development of future products and services.

Required Qualifications & Experience

Essential:

• Degree in Computer Science / Computer Systems Engineering, Electrical / Electronics or similar.
• Fluent in programming in C.
• Technical experience in embedded software for relevant applications, such as: power electronics (inverter, on-board charger, DC-DC converter), battery management systems, and similar real-time control systems.
• Strong knowledge of software development and quality processes (e.g. V-model, Agile, ASPICE)
• Experience in software requirements development, cascaded from system requirements.
• Experience in leading technical project teams.

Desirable:

• Experience of AURIX family of microcontrollers.
• Experience in AUTOSAR.
• Experience in setting up and running source code control, bug tracking and Dev Ops systems.
• Control system development.
• Functional safety, ISO26262 and similar.

Excellent communication skills in English are required as the role will be significantly customer facing (internal and external customers). The candidate will be expected to liaise with customers on a regular basis.

A certain amount of business travel can be expected including customer meetings, occasional on-site development support, and travel to other Ricardo sites.

Working here
You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place. We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance
We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits
We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps
Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.