Senior BMS Technical Lead – Freelance
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Stuttgart • 🇩🇪 Germany
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Senior
About the role
- Provide technical direction to development teams across Germany, Sweden, and India
- Review system architecture, BMS functions, and implementation details
- Support code reviews for embedded C, Simulink models, and AUTOSAR-based SWCs
- Identify design flaws, memory issues, and performance bottlenecks
- Challenge technical decisions and promote best engineering practices
- Assess battery behavior and system responses under various operating conditions
- Ensure technical readiness prior to customer delivery
- Contribute to release planning, requirements interpretation, and risk analysis
- Support stability improvements for the current BMS product
- Prepare the team for upcoming customer reviews and validation activities
- Align development activities across distributed teams
- Work closely with requirements managers and architects
- Communicate effectively with customers during escalations or clarification requests
- Coach and mentor junior engineers and offshore team members
Requirements
- 5–10+ years in BMS development, high-voltage battery systems, or battery software
- Deep understanding of battery system behavior across different operating conditions
- Ability to read and review embedded C and AUTOSAR code
- Experience identifying memory issues, stability gaps, and design flaws
- Strong diagnostic and root-cause analysis skills
- Experience with CANoe, INCA, dSPACE, or similar toolchains
- Experience collaborating with offshore development teams
- Strong communication and stakeholder-facing skills
- Strong plus: Experience with AUTOSAR Classic
- Strong plus: Experience with MATLAB/Simulink and TargetLink
- Strong plus: Exposure to ISO 26262
- Strong plus: Previous experience in commercial vehicle or high-energy battery programs
- Languages: English (fluent) – required; German or Swedish – advantageous
Benefits
- Flexible start window (January–April)
- Opportunity for freelance engagement
- Contract length: 12 months+
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
embedded CAUTOSARbattery system behaviordiagnostic skillsroot-cause analysisMATLABSimulinkTargetLinkISO 26262high-voltage battery systems
Soft skills
technical directioncommunicationcoachingmentoringcollaborationstakeholder managementproblem-solvingrisk analysisreviewingleadership