Software Architect – Power Electronics (m/f/d) Job Listing at Flex in Stuttgart, BW (Job ID WD185227)

Description

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. 

We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion and cultivate a workplace culture of belonging that views uniqueness as a competitive edge and builds a community that enables our people to push the limits of innovation to make great products that create value and improve people's lives. 

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

In our European Design Centers in Stuttgart, Timisoara and Budapest, our team creates technologies for the next-generation electric vehicle market. Our power electronics portfolio includes HV and 48V DC/DC converters, onboard chargers, HV traction inverters and battery management systems.

Strengthening our team, you would get to

• Work for big Automotive OEMs such as BMW, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis and VW
• Work in a supportive, stable, inventive team in a modern, high-quality environment
• Experience the difference, become a member of our innovative team
• Share with us your ideas and create positive impacts right from the start

To support our core design team, we are currently looking for a

Software Architect – Power Electronics (m/f/d)

What a typical day looks like:

• Drive technical development of high and low voltage AC and DC power electronics ECUs based on latest MCU platforms in automotive environment.
• Make architectural decisions with the team also related to Hardware/Schematics/Layout topics which relate to MCU/Software topics, and provide input to Hardware, System & Functional Safety teams.
• Provide overview of development roadmap to team
• Execute code reviews

• Design software architecture for power electronics products such as OBC, HV DC/DC Converters and HV Inverters
• Functionally lead software teams and closely collaborate with other engineering functions (e.g., hardware and mechanical department)
• Document software architecture and designs in UML tools such as Enterprise Architect
• Describe architecture designs using several views which include:
  • a static view showing the code structure of the system
  • a dynamic view showing the actions of the system during execution
  • and a deployment view showing how a system is placed on hardware for execution
• Drive continuous improvement of team collaboration & ways of working.

The experience we're looking to add to our team:

• Full understanding of microcontrollers down to register level, can learn new platfoms by CPU manual and MCU ref manual
• Familiar with Assembler, Master of C.
• Compilers, Make, GIT, MISRA C
• Schematics, PCB design and manufacturing
• Power Electronics topologies
• Control Theory fundamentals: cascaded PID Controller and typical implementations in C / Simulink, PID gain tuning
• ISO26262 Functional Safety fundamentals
• Familiar with typical lab Equipment: Oscilloscopes, Debuggers (Lauterbach), thermal cameras
• Ability to "own" software topics on product level and influence system level decisions
• Fluent English knowledge both in written and spoken form
• Demonstrated years  of experience in Embedded systems and/or as Software architect
• University degree - preferably computer science, electronics or similar

We consider the following experiences as a plus:

• Automotive SW ecosystem: Vector tools, Autosar, UDS (ISO14229), OEM specific diagnostic specifications (nice to have)
  H) Matlab / Simulink (nice to have)

What you'll receive for the great work you provide:

• An exciting global organization, working on projects for many well-known brands across different industries;
• Challenging projects within a professional and modern work equipment and environment;
• A long-term role with many opportunities to learn, grow and develop – we turn jobs into careers.

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