Sr. Thermal Controls Systems Engineers

The role

This person will develop advanced algorithms to optimize thermal management for powertrains, battery packs, and cabin HVAC systems. They will define requirements for embedded software, research control algorithms, and design test cases for controller validation.

What you will do

• Define requirements for embedded software implementation
• Collaborate with Vehicle Attributes and Hardware Development engineers
• Translate high-level feature requests into detailed controller software, sensor, and actuator requirements
• Research and analyze various control algorithms
• Develop control-oriented simulation models to refine control strategies
• Create and maintain system boundary diagrams, function allocation documents, state machines, and sequence diagrams
• Develop and maintain controller FMEA
• Conduct fault tree analysis
• Support functional safety requirement development
• Design test cases for controller validation and monitor test coverage across HIL, SIL, and vehicle-level testing

Required qualifications

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a closely related field
• 1 year of experience in any occupation as thermal development and analysis engineer
• Experience working with control systems fundamentals and their application to the thermal domain
• Experience with heat transfer and thermodynamics with familiarity in heat exchangers, compressors, valves, pumps, fans, and their subsystem interactions
• Experience developing control-oriented dynamic system models of thermal and hydraulic
• Experience using MATLAB, Simulink, and Python
• Experience with test case development for SIL, HIL, vehicle level tests and data analysis

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Annual company performance bonus program
• Equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Health coverage
• Retirement savings
• Time off
• Family planning programs

About the company

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders addressing the challenges of electric vehicles through technology for software-defined vehicles.