Forseven is rethinking what it is to be a car company through powerful technologies and engineering excellence. A new take on an established industry, we’ve got a growing team that is knowledgeable, experienced and deeply passionate about this endeavour.
We’re seeking a Senior Systems Engineer – Thermal Systems to join our rapidly growing team. Reporting to our Engineering Manager – Powertrain System Validation, you will be responsible for the Systems Engineering of the thermal systems for the HV system, providing definition of the cooling/heating functions and all associated interactions including battery pre-conditioning, charging/cooling strategies whilst charging, powertrain cooling and driver comfort through vehicle and phone interface. Acting as the interface between vehicle product requirements and engineering specifications, the role will ensure a complete user experience is delivered.
This pivotal role will operate in a hybrid capacity from our offices near Leamington Spa. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work alongside some of the most visionary minds in the automotive field.
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to become part of a scale-up, where your contributions will play a crucial role in shaping the future of our forward-thinking company. With its rapid growth trajectory and dynamic nature, Forseven offers you an exceptional platform to help drive strategy as we expand into new horizons.
What you’ll do
* Systems engineering with responsibility for the high voltage charging system of the company`s range of BEV vehicles, focusing on the definition and delivery of software vehicle features.
* Work closely with the software, electrical, hardware and infrastructure architecture teams to ensure vehicle features and their interfaces align with the electrical architecture, and meet applicable quality, safety and legal requirements. This extends to supporting feature definitions carried out by domain specialists to ensure adequate information flow, technical alignment, and the adherence to guidelines and quality standards.
* Act as the subject matter expert for vehicle charging with a deep understanding of charging standards, protocols and legislations.
* Provide support to project engineers, internal stakeholders and suppliers, ensuring common technical understanding of vehicle software features, and their logical and physical interfaces. Responsible for delivery in line with feature implementation plans.
* Working closely with the Verification and Validation team, responsible for ensuring test strategies and plan are adequate and provide sufficient level of coverage at different project stages.
* Manage requirement capture from various sources, including but not limited to stakeholders in engineering, product teams and user experience teams.
Who you are
* Broad experience of systems engineering delivering software controlled, distributed functions from conception to launch within an automotive EV engineering environment.
* Demonstrable experience delivering vehicle components and functions on multiple vehicle domain with a strong background in electrification and charging.
* Working knowledge of model-based systems engineering methods, languages and tools such as SysML, Capella, ArchiMate™, Preevision, etc.
* Extensive experience generating and analysing requirements. Working knowledge of requirements management tools, Polarion and Doors.
* Working knowledge of vehicle electrical architectures, including domain and zonal architectures, distributed vehicle functions and networks.
* Possession of an Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Automotive or similar honours degree. Other recognised qualifications combined with relevant experience will be considered. Possession of INCOSE CSEP or ASEP would be advantageous.
About Us
Forseven is building something new. By thinking differently. To create a new car company for the world.
Guided by expert leadership and powered by brilliant minds from the luxury, automotive and technology worlds, we’re committed to continuous improvement and the highest standards of quality. We promote a culture of excellence, integrity, and sustainable growth.
Together we are establishing a new legacy. Join us.