Concept Engineer (m/f) at Rimac Automobili
Rimac Automobili provides technology solutions for various customers and applications. In most of the cases, our customers are other car manufacturers, but we also receive a lot of inquiries from other industries. The Concept Engineer has the exciting job of defining overall vehicle architecture, powertrain layouts and high-level specifications of the main components during the acquisition phase.
The candidate for this role must have a good understanding of vehicle architecture (both mechanical and electrical), vehicle packaging and the relation between powertrain characteristics and overall vehicle performance.
1. Responsibilities:
- Providing overall vehicle definitions and system layouts.
- Defining key characteristics and functionalities for each component/function and defining development requirements
- Managing and evaluating the range of available components (internally and externally on the market) and selecting the most appropriate ones
- Packaging components in CAD software and defining their interface
- Defining Bill of Materials (BOM) documents, as well as usage and installation instructions (operating boundary conditions for various systems, installation manuals, wiring schematics, etc.)
- Providing support to assembly and testing teams during product operations
2. Work Tasks:
- Generate powertrain and vehicle architecture based on customer input
- Provide project timing and resource requirements so that the acquisition team can generate detailed plan and quotations
- Deliver target specifications for internal component R&D and external suppliers
- Lead hand-over between Concept Engineering and Project Management
- Defining validation tests
- Supervising the testing of finished products and systems
3. Requirements:
- At least 5 years of professional experience
- Master's Degree in the relevant field of study
- Advanced knowledge of CAD software (preferably Catia or Solidworks)
- Extensive experience in product development
- Extensive professional background in engineering
- Self-organized and goal-oriented
- Very good knowledge of English (written and spoken) is essential
- Basic knowledge of computer usage
- Excellent understanding of overall vehicle components and functionalities
4. Considered as an advantage:
- Extensive experience in the development and integration of products in the automotive sector
- Good knowledge of production technology
- Broad experience in engineering
- Understanding of electro-mechanical components
- Knowledge of multiple languages
5. Watch more: What is required of a Concept Engineer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a06InehxHLk
