Valeo

Electric Drive Architect

Prague Full time

Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.

For our Power Division we are looking for Electric Drive Architect with the following key responsibilities:

Product strategy:

  • Define full EDC targets aligned with the market

  • Define the Product requirements and the concepts.

  • Implement and update a product roadmap

Standard Owner duties:

  • Implement and maintain the appropriate standards

  • Manage the deviations

  • Provide technical training

Product Architecture duties:

  • Define the product functional architecture

  • Ensure the cascade of critical OEMs requirements to subsystems

  • Ensure the appropriate validation of the subsystems prior to their integration into the full system

Product Configurator duties:

  • Define the product configurator 

  • Implement the tools to generate the product configurations from the OEMs requirements

  • Manage and maintain generations and variants

Support development teams and maintain current production

  • With the privileged interface of the Platform Integrator, EE disciplines and Electrical cluster design teams

  • Manage the changes and the risks that might affect EDC Inverter-Motor

  • Involved in the relevant Problem resolution workstreams

  • From the Compressor Module MTP and Strategic Product Plan, identification of targets that the EDC system must meet to satisfy the market.

  • Identify expectations that the EDC system must meet to satisfy the stakeholders at short, medium and long term. It includes functional, non-functional, and user requirements, as well as performance, reliability, security, usability, and maintainability and costs aspects.

  • Carry out the necessary trade off studies to define the requirements and the concepts. Document and justify the decisions clearly and unambiguously.

  • Ensure standards benefit from capitalization of lessons learnt, the continuous improvement and innovation. 

  • Align standards' feasibility/compatibility with the stakeholders.

  • Define the functional architecture of the EDC 

  • Define the product configurator supporting the Compressor Module current and Strategic Product Plan

  • Define the tools and techniques to cascade the critical OEMs requirements down to internal and subsystems specifications, including the management of the subsystems interfaces

  • Involved in the approval processes of validation and integration plans and their reports.

  • Check Intellectual Property aspects 

  • Design reviews participation

  • Support the engineering/project teams

  • Clearance of the related Intellectual Property aspects

  • Define of the tools and techniques to validate and integrate the subsystems into the full system

LET´S TALK ABOUT YOU:

  • University education preferably: Electronics (Hardware) design, Electrotechnics design or Software design

  • Proof of hands-on experience of design, prototyping, troubleshooting and testing, related to EITHER electronics OR (ideally “AND”) electrotechnics

  • Demonstration of soft skills: proofs/evidences for at least two of the following: negotiation, mentoring, coordination, networking, lobbying, presentation, customers meetings

WE OFFER:

  • 6 weeks of vacation per year

  • Flexible working hours and home office possibility

  • Semester bonuses depending on your team's & corporate results

  • Contribution to pension insurance after the probation period amounting to 5% of your gross salary

  • Meal vouchers and free time vouchers on a Flexi Pass card

  • Possibility of the Multisport card

  • Fitness room and external sports ground (football, basketball, volleyball) on site

  • Mobility support for commuting, accommodation and moving services if you live more than 20km away

  • A company canteen offering a selection of international cuisine

  • Easy access to work by Prague metro line A, a parking lot for all employees

  • Personal development program through technical trainings and language courses

  • Regular company teambuilding events

  • Outdoor relax zone with barbecue space for teambuildings

Job:

R&D Team Leader/Architect

Organization:

Advanced Development Project

Schedule:

Full time

Employee Status:

Regular

Job Type:

Main Employment (standard value)

Job Posting Date:

2025-02-10

Join Us !
Being part of our team, you will join:
- one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development
- a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration
- more than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth
- a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development

More information on Valeo: https://www.valeo.com