About this role
Role Overview
- Design and develop motor control and vehicle control PCBs from concept to production
- Define electrical, mechanical, and thermal interfaces
- Support prototype build, bring-up, and laboratory validation
- Develop and execute: Test strategies
- Validation plans
- Commissioning procedures
- Analyze results and optimize designs accordingly
- Improve designs based on: Testing results
- Functional safety requirements
- Manufacturing feedback
- Support transition to series production readiness
- Contribute to DFM and production scaling
- Participate in motor control system integration and commissioning
- Support performance testing
- Collaborate on vehicle-level systems integration
- Support development of: Body Control Units (BCU)
- Power electronics integration
- Wiring harness design
- Participate in full vehicle integration, testing, and optimization
- Support validation of complete systems in prototype vehicles
- Perform iterative improvements based on test results
- Contribute to benchmarking and system performance evaluation
Requirements
- Electronics & PCB Design (Must-Have)
- Minimum 10 years of experience in PCB design (schematic capture and layout)
- Proven experience with Altium Designer (mandatory)
- Minimum 10 years of experience in automotive or electric drive systems
- Understanding of vehicle integration processes
- Experience with: DFM / DFA practices
- Knowledge of manufacturing processes and industrialization
- Hands-on experience with: Prototype bring-up and lab validation
- Test strategy development and execution
- Performance testing (efficiency, thermal, torque-speed)
- Understanding of functional safety principles (automotive context)
- Ability to incorporate safety requirements into hardware design
- Awareness of relevant design standards and compliance requirements
- Experience working across: Electrical Mechanical Software / system integration teams
- Knowledge of: Wiring harness design
- Vehicle-level system integration
- Power distribution systems
- English – fluent
- German – nice to have