HVAC Controls Release/Software/Calibration Engineer

Responsibilities

Development and release of control software and calibrations for overall comfort, energy optimization and heat pump control strategies. Duties include managing the software and calibration activities for the development, testing and release to production of in-house software strategies and calibrations that meet vehicle and system level functional objectives. These duties include climate comfort objectives, energy optimization for electrified vehicles and control strategies for heat pump system including interface with other vehicle controllers. Duties also include developing new software control strategies and requirements along with addressing issues identified in the current software and calibrations. This will include a combination of virtual methods, test bench development and vehicle level development. Engineer will work with a global team of software engineers, validation engineers, release engineers, systems engineers and hardware suppliers to meet program deliverables and milestones. Support for road trips and on-site drive cell testing will be required.

Basic qualifications, experience, and knowledge

Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Computer Engineering (or equivalent) from an ABET accredited university

Five years of automotive industry experience including calibration development for embedded controls

Experience with Matlab/Simulink/C/C++ or Vector CANape

Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills required

Preferred qualifications

• Master of Science degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Computer Engineering or Computer Science (or equivalent) from an ABET accredited university

• Experience using agile development methodologies

• Experience with INCA, dSPACE and TARGETLINK

• Experience using scripting languages (such as Ruby, Perl or Python)

• Experience with version control repositories (GIT/SvN)

• Experience root causing software issues at the model in loop (MIL), software in loop (SIL), hardware in loop (HIL) and vehicle level

• Knowledge of vehicle serial data communications (CAN, LIN)

• Experience using proactive quality tools (Design for Six Sigma)

• Experience using reactive quality tools (Kepner-Tregoe / Shainin)

• Self-starter and motivated to produce results