Battery Feature Owner

Job Description

The Team

We are looking for a Senior Engineer with automotive experience to deliver complex vehicle features that are cross-functional. You may come from the following (but not limited to) backgrounds: Powertrain, ADAS, Infotainment, Automotive systems, or software.

At Capgemini Automotive we drive the automotive trends of safety automation, electrification, and connectivity to the next generation of solutions. With so many new features added almost every day, we need automotive experts, and we are rapidly growing a team of SME’s.

The Role

We work more flexibly in time and location, allowing a better work life balance and greater empowerment. Hybrid working is a day-to-day reality at Capgemini. Underpinned by our trust-based managerial culture, we aim to empower everyone to deliver exceptional work – contributing to an inclusive and sustainable future for our people, our clients, and society.

As such this role may offer the opportunity for hybrid working where you can choose to divide your time between working from the office or client site and working from home depending on the nature of your job. You can discuss hybrid working with us in detail during the interview process.

Responsibilities

• Raw up the system boundary diagram (We already have a draft that can be used as a starting point)
• Obtain electrical specification from each of the module owners to understand the power consumption in each of the operating modes. (i.e. Review and refine the data in the spreadsheet that was done previously)
• Determine the use cases for LV charging and determine the total power consumption of the LV system for each of the use cases.
• Review the charging strategy, propose potential improvements, and identify the additional functions that may need to be implemented by each component.
• Determine the battery requirements based on the use cases and agreed charging strategy.
• Owns a feature or multiple features from conception to implementation to validation.
• Communicate and maintain feature/function level status.
• Defines the vehicle system features/functions and allocates the vehicle system elements to build up the functional architecture.
• Works with ECU engineers, program managers, electrical architecture team, product strategy and other stakeholders to align strategy and execution.
• Refines use cases (end-to-end functions) to identify vehicle system features/functions.
• Specifies vehicle system features/functions and is responsible for the completeness towards stakeholder requirements and establishes traceability, verification criteria and responsibilities.
• Specifies non-functional requirements, process and project execution requirements, requirements for vehicle test and validation, requirements for manufacturing.
• Collaborate with engineers to review software implementation ensuring compliance with requirements.

Qualifications, & Experience required

• At least 8 years of experience in battery management controls & software development in automotive including physics-based battery modelling for estimation & controls
• Good Control Systems background including system identification, estimation theory and model predictive control techniques,

Benefits

As a permanent employee of Capgemini Engineering, you will have access to a range of benefits alongside your salary including an annual bonus scheme where you could share in the company’s success. You will get 25 days paid holiday outside of the bank holidays, a pension scheme with employer contributions, options for private medical cover as well as life assurance and enhanced maternity/paternity pay. For some employees you will also be eligible to take part in our impressive employee referral scheme (£2,500 per employee referred).

About Us

Capgemini Engineering combines, under one brand, a unique set of strengths from across the Capgemini Group: the world leading engineering and R&D services of Altran – acquired by Capgemini in 2020 - and Capgemini's digital manufacturing expertise. With broad industry knowledge and cutting-edge technologies in digital and software, Capgemini Engineering supports the convergence of the physical and digital worlds. Combined with the capabilities of the rest of the Group, it helps clients to accelerate their journey towards Intelligent Industry. Capgemini Engineering has more than 52,000 engineer and scientist team members in over 30 countries across sectors including aeronautics, automotive, railways, communications, energy, life sciences, semiconductors, software & internet, space & defence, and consumer products. Capgemini Engineering is an integral part of the Capgemini Group, a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided every day by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of 270,000 team members in nearly 50 countries. With its strong 50-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fuelled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms.

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