Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo Automotive and Industrial (A&I), a member of WSP, and global engineering services partner for clean and efficient integrated propulsion and energy systems. Our experience and history of more than 100 years at the forefront of transport & energy innovation, enables us to deliver solutions to the most complex challenges, allowing our customers across all global transport & energy sectors to achieve a sustainable zero-carbon future. 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

• Build and cultivate Power electronics team in the US, with working globally with our UK and Prague power electronics teams, you will 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.

Key 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.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

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 employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, creed, gender identity. sexual orientation, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital or parental status (IL only), height, weight, national origin, citizenship status, age, domestic violence victim status, arrest record  or conviction record (MI only), genetic information, military or veteran status or disability, or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or municipal law. VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

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.