Job Description

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At Tata Technologies we make product development dreams a reality by designing, engineering and validating the products of tomorrow for the world's leading manufacturers. Due to our continued growth we are now recruiting for a Lead Engineer - Inverter HW to be based at our customer's site in Gaydon.
Our Embedded Systems Solutions department (ESS) encompasses all activities outlined under the Automotive SPICE (ASPICE) process framework, including systems engineering, software engineering, coding, and all levels of functional testing. Beyond core development, ESS also integrates critical supporting processes such as project management, risk assessment, functional safety, and cybersecurity, ensuring compliance with ASPICE standards and delivering reliable, secure, and high-quality embedded systems & solutions.
The Role:
We are seeking a Project Engineer - Inverter HW to lead the specification and delivery of a 1-off inverter system, collaborating with Aston Martin's strategic inverter supplier. This role will work under the guidance of the Power Conversion Leader and Inverter Expert, ensuring seamless integration of the traction inverter into the vehicle from concept through to production. The engineer will drive design validation, supplier coordination, and technical leadership to meet quality, performance, and compliance standards.
Area of Responsibility
System Design & Development

• Lead delivery of a Traction Inverter system, overseeing its integration into the vehicle.

• Engage with AML EDU System and eMotor engineers and external suppliers to ensure timely production of EDU mechanical and electrical systems.

• Support EDU Systems component validation, conducting regular design reviews with cross-functional teams.

• Assist Test & Development teams with DVP planning & execution, ensuring supplier tests are completed on time.

• Define and achieve programme weight targets, supporting CAD engineers in system optimization.

• Support Virtual Verification activities, including packaging evaluations, 1D, and 3D analyses.

• Ensure CAD designs incorporate Design for Manufacture (DFM) and Design for Serviceability (DFS) principles.

• Identify and contain potential quality concerns, applying engineering quality tools (FMEA, Robustness Studies).

Supplier & Quality Management

• Support delivery of the Inverter commodity strategy within the EDU Simultaneous Engineering Team (SET).

• Manage supplier interactions, ensuring requirement cascade, quality control, and logistics coordination.

• Complete Change Tracking Documents (CTDs), Engineering Release Notices (ERNs), and system updates for AML approval.

• Resolve engineering concerns using eCMS, implementing timely corrective actions.

• Oversee Functional Safety, Cybersecurity, and EMC compliance for inverter systems.

Project Planning & Execution

• Demonstrate expertise in electrothermal modeling, thermal management, and high-voltage electrical systems.

• Apply contactor sizing, pyro-fuse functionality, and current sensor analysis skills for system reliability.

• Ensure compliance with functional safety standards such as ISO 26262 and battery pack system integration methodologies.

• Maintain knowledge of busbar manufacturing processes, serviceability requirements, and mechanical system interactions.

Technical Leadership

• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including design engineers, validation specialists, and manufacturing experts.

• Engage in regular collaboration with AVL and AML simulation teams, ensuring accurate electrothermal modeling and system validation.

• Actively coordinate supplier relationships, managing quality assurance and logistics.

• Present technical information to the EDU SET, ensuring clear communication of inverter development progress.

In return for bringing your expertise to our business we offer a competitive salary along with excellent benefits including:
Pension Scheme - We match employee contribution up to 5% of salary
25 Days' Holiday
Private Health Care
Tata Jaguar Land Rover Privilege Scheme - up to 20% off new JLR vehicles
Group Income Protection
Health Assured - Employee Assistance Program
Group Life Assurance
Health Shield - Private Health Cash Plan
If you are passionate about bringing innovation to the projects you work on and want to join a global company, then this is the place for you.
Tata Technologies: Engineering a better world.
Tata Technologies would like to thank all applicants for their interest, each application will be reviewed against the set criteria for the role. We would like to advise that only candidates under consideration will be contacted. If you do not hear from us within 10 working days following the closing date it will mean that unfortunately your application has not been successful. We will however retain your details for any suitable future opportunities.
About Company:
#ComeJoinUs in #EngineeringABetterWorld. We're a global product engineering and digital services company focused on fulfilling our mission of helping the world drive, fly, build, and farm by enabling our customers to realize better products and deliver better experiences. We're the strategic engineering partner businesses turn to when they aspire to be better. Manufacturing companies rely on us to enable them to conceptualize, develop and realize better products that are safer, cleaner, and improve the quality of life for all the stakeholders, helping us achieve our vision of #EngineeringABetterWorld. We're inspiring a new generation of engineers who, by embracing the opportunities that exist at the convergence of digital technology & traditional engineering, are developing better products. We're redefining what the world understands by engineering and spreading the influence and impact of engineering as humanity's best way of addressing its most important challenges and opportunities.

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