Role: Contractor - Project Engineer - Electrical Integration

Locations: Prague

Role ID: 2026-3310

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo, member of WSP, 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 Control Engineer or Senior Control Engineer 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 support the 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.
• Development of Model-in-Loop and Hardware-in-Loop test facilities to support control development.
• Support control strategy development on bench rigs, on testbeds, and on-vehicle.
• Technical analysis to achieve tasks with sound evidence base.
• Responsibility for delivering assigned tasks to time, cost and quality on customer projects.
• Interface directly with clients on technical issues.
• Liaison with wider team members to organise and deliver project activities as required.
• Reporting of technical status internally and to customers.
• Supervision of junior team members on assigned tasks.
• 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.
• 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.
• Experience in Advanced control methodologies (e.g. Model Predictive Control, Optimal Control, Kalman Filters, etc.)
• 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.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

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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