Heating And Air Conditioning Engineer

The Automotive Interiors Climate Validation Engineer (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) is ensuring that a vehicle's climate control system meets performance, safety, and regulatory standards before it reaches production. They act as a bridge between design team (electronics and cab), performance team and manufacturing, in verification of requirements regarding customer user cases on vehicle level, testing components, calibration of software and performances for the complete system under real-world and simulated conditions to validate the function on the vehicle as intended.

Benchmarking Heavy Commercial trucks to get an expertise knowledge for customer user cases and designs, to be robust in state-of-the-Art Truck Design.

Validation of ergonomics and intuitive application for Interiors Climate system.

Responsibilities and accountabilities:

• Test Planning: Defining test procedures and test cases, creating validation plans based on internal specifications and project milestones, conforming to industry standards.

Performance Testing: Measuring airflow, temperature control (heating/cooling), and humidity regulation inside the truck cab. This includes, e.g. assessing defog/defrost performance verification and calibration, as well as validation of climate comfort for customer user cases.

Testing environments are: HVAC systems in climate-controlled test chambers (wind tunnels) that simulate extreme environments (e.g. hot and cold) and all weather conditions, as well as conducting vehicle test on road under real environmental conditions (e.g. day, night, four seasons, parking, driving, …)

• Data Analysis & Troubleshooting: Analyzing test data to verify the requirements and identify failures, conducting root cause analysis, and collaborating with design teams to resolve issues. Provision of test data for correlation with simulation models.

• Instrumentation: Set-up and maintenance of measurement equipment, which is required for data acquisition during tests.

• Documentation and Reporting: Creating test reports, documenting evidence of compliance with requirements, configuring issues and managing release documentation.

• Specific Subsystem Validation: Testing single components, like additional heating function and performance, parking cooler function and performance on electric vehicle high-voltage PTC heaters and heat pumps.

• Virtual Pre-Checks: Perform 3D checks by evaluating the design in consideration of customer user cases as well as verifying virtual performance simulations.

• Collaboration and integration inside the vehicle validation community, e.g. exchange with neighboring testing engineers/departments and participation to joint test campaigns.

• Manage external providers and partners, during the preparation and execution of tests, e.g. Statement of Work, control of test deliverables and planning/costing.

• Attention to cab conformity (legal), energy-efficiency and comfort for internal combustion vehicles and electric vehicles for Heavy, Medium and Light commercial vehicles.

• Implementation of creative ideas and technical solutions in the design phase.

Job Requirements and qualifications:

Required

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, or similar.

• Experience: Proven experience in automotive validation, preferably in truck or heavy-duty vehicle cabin development.

• Expert knowledge on Interior Climate Validation by former experience of at least two years.

• Professional record with automotive OEMs, suppliers or testing facilities/engineering providers.

• Technical background: A background in Mechanical Engineering, Thermal Engineering, or Automotive Engineering

• Hands-on Testing: Experience with laboratory test equipment, instrumentation (temperature sensors, pressure transducers), and data acquisition systems (e.g., CAN bus, sensors,).

• Knowledge in simulation tools and automotive test software and diagnostic tools (e.g., MATLAB/Simulink, Vector tools).

• Analytic skills for problem solving and exploration of new solutions.

• Communication: Ability to work within cross-functional teams, providers, including design, manufacturing, and suppliers.

• Skills in customer user cases related Interior Climate control in general (HCV/ MCV and LCV range)

• Planning and Reporting skills: MS Office, Polarion, Sketch modules.

• English language fluency (reading writing and speaking).

• Interest and passion for automotive and truck development.

Preferred

• HVAC design skills preferred knowing other OEMs interiors/climate design and details also in terms of function and features.

• Preferred deep knowledge on Truck customer user cases.

• Practical and mechanical skills without fear of touching and working with technical products and equipment.

• Familiarity with DFMEA and risk analysis.

• Knowledge of CAD (preferred Catia and Teamcenter)

• Truck driving experience C/CE license.

• Competencies and/or Key Behaviours:

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication skills in English and eventually Italian or German.

• Team-oriented and the passion to work in international and multi-disciplinary working environment.

• Ability to work independently and being methodical and self-organized.

• Hands-on approach and pragmatic practical attitude towards problem solving.

• Ability to perform under time pressure.

• Passion for vehicle validation.

• Availability for traveling (10%).