Systems Engineer - Battery
Freudenberg Battery Power Systems LLC
Location
Auburn Hills, MI | United States
Job description
Responsibilities arrow_right
- Ongoing: Develop and maintain standards and checklists for use in assessing compatibility and safety of Freudenberg Battery power Systems (FBPS) battery systems and host platforms.
- During the early product development phase: Learn and analyze the electrical, electronic and mechanical interfaces between the customer’s host platform and the FBPS battery pack.
- Establish fluency regarding host vehicle-to-battery networks including terminations, messages, and analytical tools (e.g., CANalyzer), diagnostic messages and related failure modes (what causes each fault to trigger) and response modes (how the battery and the vehicle respond)
- Establish understanding of vehicle electrical distribution system (harnesses, shielding, routing) and grounding topologies.
- During vehicle prototype testing phases: Support customer onsite with system reviews and troubleshooting/problem solving. Provide lessons learned feedback to the appropriate FBPS and Customer engineering teams as issues are encountered and resolved.
- Proactively support design validation teams in test plan reviews to ensure testing strategies and methods truly stress and verify design compliance and safety.
- Work closely with marketing functions to understand customer technical requirements and build multi-generation technical plans for different applications.
- Assess competitive technologies for system level innovation, cost, performance, and functional advantages.
- Proactively support Design FMEA, Service Engineering with recommendations for improving Service strategies
Qualifications arrow_right
- M.S. in Electrical or Controls Engineering or equivalent (BS acceptable with sufficient experience)
- Minimum 5 years of experience in electric vehicle programs, with battery integration a plus
- Minimum 5 years of experience in electric vehicle programs and battery design and/or integration.
- Working knowledge of CANalyzer, CANoe and NI-based analysis and development tools
- Understanding of Battery Management Systems and relationships between controllable attributes, and battery life and performance.
- Excellent communications and interpersonal skills – position requires strong interaction in multi-functional team environment particularly in high-pressure situations (e.g., launch)
- Strong English skills, both spoken and written
- Must be a self-starter who takes the initiative to find solutions to technical challenges
- Must demonstrate knowledge of and proficiency with creative problem solving methods.
- Travel 10–20% of time
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