Hardware in the Loop (HIL) Engineer

Job description

Job Description

An ever-evolving heritage. A truly exciting future. Two of the world’s most iconic brands. Jaguar Land Rover is revered across the globe. Continually pushing the boundaries of innovation and redefining the benchmark for excellence, we set the standards others want to follow. We want to keep it that way too. Which is where you join the journey.

What to expect

The Powertrain HiL group is responsible for delivering HiL capability across all powertrain and driveline variants, including Hybrid and Battery-Electric architectures, both for stand-alone simulators and HiL capability integrated into high voltage/dyno based test rigs.

The Purpose of the technical lead role is to provide technical design solutions to customer requirements and provide decomposition of these designs to sub tasks to allow themselves and other HIL engineers to complete the work. The technical lead should also provide guidance to other HiL engineers on technical solutions, best practices and insure that HIL solutions are implemented to process.

The technical lead engineer report directly to the Powertrain HIL team group lead. As technical lead they have the responsibility of technical content for projects they are assigned. They have the responsibility for decomposing the design and assigning task within the Powertrain HIL planning tools to HIL engineers for completion. The technical lead is accountable for insuring the overall HIL system design meets the customer requirements and the sub tasks are complete and integrate to achieve this.

The primarily deliveries of this role will be developing the technical content of HiL solutions for applications of hybrid, engine control, transmission and driveline HIL applications and hybrid high voltage dyno test cells. In all these applications the focus of the HIL solutions is to provide a virtual vehicle testing environment for single ECU HIL systems, multiple ECU sub-system and full system HIL solutions or rest of vehicle simulation for test cell applications.

In achieving these deliveries the role encompasses tasks such as working with customers to capturing requirements, managing expectations, working with the team to design and develop solutions. Taking ownership of projects and managing the delivery of the designed systems to tight deadlines.

It will also be important in the role to manage relationships with internal and external suppliers to insure we get timely delivery of hardware/software solutions. As the owner of projects it is also expected that risk and issues will be proactively managed to drive fast resolution and when available take opportunities to improve process to increase quality, reduce cost or improve delivery timings.

Desired profile

Candidate Profile

Your main responsibilities will be to:

• Interfacing with the customers to define the high level requirements for new technical development.
• Ownership of work packages cascaded from delivery lead Engineer
• Joint ownership of technical communization across HIL rig systems for CAE models and hardware through commonality in design for reusability.
• Identifying commonality and reusability across projects.
• Lead implementation of technical strategy for HIL hardware, CAE and approved software and licence use.
• Joint ownership of repository structure for CAE models and process for use.
• Lead decomposition and design agreement with HIL engineers for cascaded work packages for technical delivery.
• Design of specification and requirements of CAE for HIL plant models.
• Design of system specification for HIL hardware cards to run plant models and to interface with system under test.
• Coordination with suppliers for delivery of CAE, HIL hardware, System under test.
• When CAE is not available from suppliers, implementation of CAE solutions to specification using approved software and licences.
• Design and specification of commissioning sign off tests and documentation for CAE HIL plant models.
• Design and specification of commissioning sign off for HIL hardware cards to run plant models and to interface with system under test.
• Design and specification of commissioning sign off for completed integrated HIL solutions open and closed loop.
• Sign off debug and commissioning report for completed HIL.

 

What you’ll need

You’ll need to have competent working knowledge and experience of how Hardware in the Loop systems are designing and implemented alongside knowledge and experience of CAE modelling of vehicle systems, control systems, sensors and actuators for real time applications. Knowledge and experience of vehicle networks, particularly CAN, FLEXRAY, LIN, CCP and/or XCP is key to this role. It would be advantageous if you have knowledge or experience of hybrid vehicle systems integration or design, control system development for engines/transmissions/hybrid vehicle components. You’ll also need demonstrable project management, team working skills, excellent communication skills, interpersonal skills.

Please note we reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.

Benefits

Bring all this to the home of premium innovation, and you’ll find the opportunities to further your career with a world-class team, a privilege car purchase scheme, membership of a competitive pension plan and performance related bonus scheme. All this and more makes Jaguar Land Rover the perfect place to continue your journey.