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We are seeking a Senior Thermal Engineer - HV Battery & Power Electronics to join our lean and agile team in our Mesa, Arizona facility. The Senior Thermal Engineer – HV Battery & Power Electronics will focus on design and release of the thermal management systems required for the High Voltage Battery and Power Electronics components.
General Requirements
- Lead system design & development, as well as test verification and validation activities.
- Coordinate all design related activity including sizing of related thermal management components (pumps, LTR, CFM, Chiller, Cooling plates etc..)
- Development of system DVP&R and DFMEA’s.
- Coordinate hardware testing in the lab to verify and validate thermal management system functionality and reliability.
- Resolve technical issues and provide recommendations.
- Provide input in the creation of system and component specifications and other technical related design documents.
- Optimize thermal system for weight and cost while satisfying program milestones.
- Collaborate with a team of thermal component Design Release Engineers (DREs) to develop an overall thermal management system architecture.
- Engineering meetings with powertrain, power electronics, vehicle integration, body structure, energy storage system engineers to assure thermal component packaging, installation, and an optimized functional environment.
- Design for manufacturing feasibility design reviews.
- Manage refrigeration cycle, plumbing, compressor and condenser design.
- Coordination of 1D, CFD and CAE modeling and subsequent interpretation of results for design optimization.
- Prototype development and testing data support includes analysis of data and recommendations.
- Concept and component selection.
- Share and present engineered thermal design concepts to cross-functional teams to ensure vehicle integration of thermal systems.
- Describe development proposals and problem descriptions and present to various levels of management.
- Work with suppliers on design evaluation and validation of the thermal management system hardware to meet product requirements.
- Tracking supplier DVP&R, DFMEA’s progress.
- Provide engineering guidance to meet system performance targets.
- Create proof of concept demonstrations for integrated thermal management systems.
- Provide input in the creation of vehicle, subsystem & component specifications, test procedures and other technical documents.
- Evaluate and compare industry standards and specifications to ElectraMeccanica’s standards and specifications.
- Evaluate and compare competitive data (per market segment) to ElectraMeccanica’s internal data.
- Collaborate with vehicle integration engineering to define and refine specifications.
- Prepare Statement of Work (SOR) and Statement of Requirements (SOR) for Thermal component sourcing activities.
Other
- Other duties as occasionally required by company management.