Role: Senior Project Engineer - Control Systems

Location: Van Buren Township, Michigan, US – Hybrid

Role ID: 2025-3078

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Engineer in Control Systems to deliver on-going client projects, and to further develop the capabilities of the team.

Our Control and Electronics group is responsible for the specification, implementation and validation of control systems for a wide range of complex, clean propulsion and energy systems, including: xEV powertrains, power electronics, motors and drives, engines, transmissions, battery management systems, advanced thermal systems, and fuel cell systems. Our support to customers covers the full spectrum of control development, from core algorithm development, through to fully validated production control software (including safety software).

In this role, you will be primarily responsible for development of new control systems for a wide range of applications for our client base, but may be expected to support other technical domains depending on the nature of the department workload.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical development of control solutions, covering requirements specification, algorithm development, component selection, implementation, calibration and validation
• Leadership to other team members in the delivery of control solutions
• Supervision of junior team members on assigned tasks
• Liaison with wider team members to organise and deliver project activities as required
• Management of  verification and validation of control systems, by software or Model-in-Loop, Hardware-in-Loop & physical testing
• Support the wider engineering team, contributing to: systems engineering, electrical integration and communications integration
• Development of dynamic models, based on understanding of system dynamics over a wide range of physical domains
• Interfacing directly with clients and suppliers on technical issues
• Reporting of technical status internally and to customers
• Focus on delivery of projects on-time and on-budget
• A certain amount of business travel can be expected including customer meetings, occasional on-site development support, and travel to other Ricardo sites

Key Competencies and Experience

• Degree in Engineering, Control / Electrical / Electronics or similar
• Experience in successful deployment of controls for complex systems
• Experience providing technical leadership to engineering project teams
• Solid understanding of physical principles and control techniques
  
• Fluency in model-based development languages for control software deployment, especially MATLAB-Simulink

Desirable Competencies and Experience

• Experience in programming for microcontrollers, or deployment of PLC controls
• Experience in development and validation of controls for production programs

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance 

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. 

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, creed, gender identity. sexual orientation, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital or parental status (IL only), height, weight, national origin, citizenship status, age, domestic violence victim status, arrest record  or conviction record (MI only), genetic information, military or veteran status or disability, or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or municipal law. VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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