Lead HV Safety System Engineer
24th Apr, 2024 Read time 3 minutes

Lead HV Safety System Engineer

Location: Gaydon
Last Updated: 25th May 2024

Full Job Description

We’re re-examining our vehicles and what a vehicle means in the emerging world of automation, connectedness, electrification and the shared economy. New ideas, new technology, and new approaches to mobility are our business. Join a team of next generation thinkers.

WHAT TO EXPECT

We are actively in pursuit of an accomplished Lead HV Safety System Engineer for JLR’s integrated High Voltage Battery Charging control system. You will be responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining functional safety solutions through best-practice engineering.

Your mission? To work closely with engineering, quality, and regulatory teams to ensure compliance with relevant industry standards and regulations, including ISO26262. As part of the Functional Safety and Control Design Chapter, you will develop the company’s strategy for processes, components and systems for the control system specialism.

This is a highly visible and impactful role, offering the opportunity to lead our technical teams in the development of our new generation of electric vehicles.


Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

  • Design and delivery of Charging/Battery Management ECU Part4 Technical Safety Concepts, Hardware and Software safety requirements and their implementation
  • Collaborate with team members in supporting the delivery of the overall safety plan
  • Provide technical mentorship for functional safety design engineers
  • Contribute to the development of capable, efficient, standardised and Functional Safety processes
  • Audit of safety products from internal and external elements
  • Liaise with key suppliers, particularly as “Matched-pair” for software
  • Manage technical risks and mitigation plans
  • Ensure correctness and peer review of FuSa analysis, Architecture, Requirements, V&V
  • Development of the verification/validation strategy for the item

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential –

  • Successfully delivered technical safety concepts from inception to production in a complex control system product
  • An individual who is results-driven, demonstrates tenacity, drive and perseverance, with the ability to deliver in a complex, highly demanding environment
  • Experience applying ISO 26262 Parts 3, 4, 5 and 6
  • Equivalent industry experience welcome (for example IEC 61508)
  • Audit and assessing supplier functional safety work products
  • Using industry-standard system, safety analysis, requirement management tools such as Medini, ISO Graph Reliability Workbench, MSOSA, TRM, DOORS
  • HV Energy Storage Systems and Power Electronics experience


SO WHY US?

Bring all this to the home of premium innovation, and you’ll find the opportunities to further your career with a world-class team, a discounted car purchase and lease scheme for you and your family, membership of a competitive pension plan and performance related bonus scheme. All this and more makes JLR the perfect place to continue your journey.

This role may offer the opportunity for hybrid working where you can split your time between working from home and in the office. At JLR, hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement providing employees with more choice and flexibility around how, when and where they work, if suitable for their role. Further details can be discussed with the Hiring Manager at interview stage.

JLR is committed to equal opportunity for all.

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