Hardware Architect (m/f/d)

The Hardware Architect Engineer is responsible for customer HW requirements management, translation of customer requirements in to detailed HW product requirements, design items, and compliance testing for power electronics inverters. You will be part of a multi-cultural, multi-disciplined product development team, working on latest state of the art 800V SiC and 400V Si / SiC Inverters for Battery Electric Vehicles and Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles for the eMobility mass market.

Tasks

• Interface with German or European customers to evaluate and specify power electronic inverters
• Analyze HW Stakeholder Requirements (Customer and Internal)
• Decompose Stakeholder requirements in to architectural blocks, I/O interfaces and system requirements/design that are assigned to Hardware Electronic, Mechanical, validation and Manufacturing engineering team.
• Generate Product Definition Document (detailed product electrical requirements)
• Generate power electronics controllers design concept (Product Mechanization).
• Develop requirements to embedded test software used in validation and manufacturing
• Perform change management with the customer and internally
• Develop product functional test plan (compliance testing)
• Perform product functional hardware bench testing
• Provide technical support hardware environmental and electromagnetic compatibility validation
• Support customer test and validation programs
• Analyze customer issued and internal issue tickets, try to reproduce them and coordinate their resolution.

JOB REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Requirements

• Masters Engineering degree in Electrical/Electronic or an associated field
• Good foundation knowledge in hardware embedded systems
• Experience within effective problem solving methodologies
• Strong communication skills are essential
• Big picture thinker with an eye for details
• Fluency in English is required, German and French are a plus
• Experience in Automotive Electronic or e-Mobility (Hardware) is a benefit.
• High Voltage Inverter experience is a benefit
• AIAG/VDA FMEA training is a benefit