Salary
💰 $185,000 - $225,000 per year
About the role
- Spearhead development and refinement of thermal control strategies to optimize system performance and ensure customer-ready product.
- Maintain ideal operating temperatures for occupants and critical components (HVAC, high voltage battery, powertrain, and specialized autonomous vehicle components).
- Develop advanced models, estimators, and algorithms and drive controls from conceptualization through Simulink code generation.
- Oversee firmware implementation and release controls algorithms into Zoox firmware.
- Rigorously validate and refine algorithms through extensive physical testing using model and simulation capabilities and physical test assets.
- Develop thermal system design, SFMEA, integration and verification plans considering performance, time latency, functional safety, and cybersecurity.
- Drive thermal system integration and verification strategy and execute testing for nominal and off-nominal configurations and conditions.
- Collaborate with vehicle subsystem development, firmware development, and validation teams to determine system requirements, function allocation, test, debug, and calibration methodologies.
- Engage subsystem design teams to ensure sensors and actuators meet system interface and functional requirements.
Requirements
- BS or higher in Mechanical, Electrical, or Controls Engineering or equivalent.
- At least 8 years experience with thermal controls system development, modeling, and implementation.
- Experience in linear systems analysis, state estimation, controller design and data analysis in Matlab/Simulink.
- Fundamental understanding of thermal system components like chillers, evaporators, coolant and refrigerant pumps, radiators, fans, actuators, etc.
- Experience in developing fail operational / fail safe concepts, and related system diagnostics based on functional safety standard (ISO26262 or equivalent).
- Experience in developing electrical systems and subsystems requirements and proficiency of requirements management tools (IBM DOOrs, Siemens Polarion, or similar).
- Working knowledge of automotive serial communication protocols (CAN/LIN/Ethernet) application and Physical & Functional interfaces definition.
- Able to work with physical test assets, like bucks or actual robots, to evaluate and refine controller designs.