The Engineering Team is being expanded to develop and mature a portfolio of Power Exchangers to deploy into global power grid systems.
Areas of Responsibility
- Leading the team of software and control electronics engineers
- Providing technical direction for the software and control electronics at an architecture level
- Product lifecycle management for software and control electronics
- Owning the requirements for software and control electronics, and automated test equipment
- Supporting detailed design decisions (datatype, sampling rate, processor selection)
- System architecture and design of embedded systems
- Software and electronics modelling and model design
- Implementing and managing a CI / CD pipeline
- Creating full test plans to validate the software into the system
- Ownership oftest plans for control electronics
- Defining and agreeing interfaces and requirements with other engineering disciplines
- Owning technology roadmaps and new ideas generation
- Interfacing with customers to gain market insight
- Interfacing with customers and certification agencies to gain product approval
- Understanding customer, market and regulatory requirements for software control
- Chairing design reviews of the software and control systems
- Performing system level product testing and customer demonstrations of power electronic systems at 1 MVA and above
Interfaces
- Working closely with the CTO, focused on the areas of responsibility in product development.
- ProgramManager for planning and execution of deliverables to meet the product and technology roadmaps
- Head PowerElectronics, Head of System Engineering, Chief Engineer and Head of SystemServices to lead the engineering teams
- Third parties, including investors and potential investors, legal and governance.
- Product development and commercial partners
- ThirdEquation Team as an active member for close cooperation in all aspects of the business.
Skills and experience
- Senior /Principal engineering experience in software and electronics product development
- Bachelor’sDegree in relevant Engineering discipline: Electronic & Software
- Strong technical leadership and influencing skills
- Experience in simulation tools i.e. Matlab / Simulink, PSPICE
- Requirements capture and management
- Experience in formal methodologies and V-cycle for Systems Engineering
- Knowledge of machine learning and artificial intelligence system
- Experience designing and certifying Safety Critical Systems (SIL 1 + )
- Project management experience (agile and waterfall)
- Senior level experience of software and electronics development tools, techniques andmethodologies
- Expertise of software, C, C++, Matlab, Simulink
- Experience of designing microprocessor based systems
- Experience of NI equipment, Labview and python scripting would be a distinct advantage
