HiSpeed Ltd. designs, develops and tests tailor-made, highly efficient compact electric powertrains, drives, machines and inverters for automotive, aerospace and robotics applications.
Alongside the specific roles listed below, we maintain an active talent pool of engineers we may approach as new projects and positions come on stream at our Bicester site. If you are an engineer in electric machines, power electronics, controls, mechanical design, prototype build or test, we welcome speculative applications. Please send your CV and a short cover letter to info@hispeedltd.co.uk, indicating your area of expertise.
Systems & Controls Engineer
The role involves:
– Definition of power electronics system requirements and test plans.
– Development of system and motor control strategies in Matlab/Simulink environment.
– Autocoding with Simulink embedded coder.
– Bench and dyno testing of power electronics and motor systems, including motor characterization and calibration processes.
– Support to vehicle testing, data processing and technical reporting.
Desired skills and experience:
– Minimum of 1 year of relevant professional experience ( automotive industry is a plus).
– MSc or PhD thesis on advanced motor or power electronics control algorithms e.g. sensorless motor control algorithms, different modulation techniques, control of multiphase electrical machines… etc (desired).
– Previous experience with automotive system testing tools (CANalyzer, INCA, CANape) and test benches instrumentation.
– Previous experience in classic & modern control theories.
– Previous experience with motor control algorithms for PMSM for automotive applications – MTPA, MTPV, FW.
– Previous experience with motor control algorithms for Induction machines and wound synchronous machines (beneficial).
– Previous experience with power electronics e.g. traction inverters, DC/DC converters, modulation schemes.
Please send your CV and cover letter to info@hispeedltd.co.uk
Power Electronics Hardware Engineer
The role involves:
– Design LV electronics for LV and HV traction inverters. This includes design of isolated and non-isolated SMPS, design of analogue and digital circuits.
– Schematics capture, Library management in Altium.
– PCB design / specification / layout in Altium (desired), Support / guide PCB/ PCBA production processes.
– Development of test plans and testing of power electronic boards ( integrity tests, functional tests .
– Support HW functional safety analyses & inverter testing.
Desired skills and experience:
– Minimum of 3 years (Mid-level) and 6 years (Senior-level) of relevant industrial experience with HW design experience.
– HW design experience to fulfil EMC regulations / standards as ECE REG 10, CISPR 25 is desired.
– Experience with WBG power converters – SIC, GAN.
– Experience with ISO26262 implementation at HW level.
– Knowledge of PCB design best practices for EMC, thermal management, and signal integrity.
– Knowledge on PCB design for manufacturing / design for testing is desired.
Please send your CV and cover letter to info@hispeedltd.co.uk