Work with the Thermal Control System team which develops advanced algorithms to optimize thermal management for our powertrains, battery packs using heat pumps, and cabin HVAC systems. Collaborate with designers, engineers, manufacturing teams, firmware developers, and service personnel, leveraging your expertise in thermal and controls engineering to define requirements for embedded software implementation. Collaborate with Vehicle Attributes and Hardware Development engineers to ensure subsystems are designed with appropriate requirements, interfaces, and interactions for specific vehicle functions. Translate high-level feature requests into detailed controller software, sensor, and actuator requirements, driving implementation, testing, and release. Research and analyze various control algorithms and develop control-oriented simulation models to refine control strategies. Create and maintain system boundary diagrams, function allocation documents, state machines, and sequence diagrams. Develop and maintain controller FMEA, conduct fault tree analysis, and support functional safety requirement development. Design test cases for controller validation and monitor test coverage across HIL, SIL, and vehicle- level testing.

Minimum Requirements:

Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a closely related field and 1 year of experience in any occupation as thermal development and analysis engineer. Experience must include working with control systems fundamentals and their application to the thermal domain; heat transfer and thermodynamics with familiarity in heat exchangers, compressors, valves, pumps, fans, and their subsystem interactions; developingcontrol-oriented dynamic system models of thermal and hydraulic; using MATLAB, Simulink, and Python; and test case development for SIL, HIL, vehicle level tests and data analysis.

Sr. Thermal Controls Systems Engineers

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rivianvw.tech

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