System Architect (Battery Management System)
Job Description
About AiTHER Systems
Based in Plano, Tx, AiTHER Systems is a pioneering company specializing in the design, manufacturing, and delivery of state-of-the art small-scale energy storage and microgrid solutions; dedicated to advancing the way customers harness and utilize energy. At AiTHER Systems, we are about creating comprehensive energy solutions that help our customers better manage and control their energy usage. We aspire to support the global shift from a fossil-fuel-based economy to a renewable one, to achieve energy independence and contribute to a sustainable future.
At AiTHER Systems, We ACTT to Accelerate. We ACTT to Execute. We ACTT to Win!
PRIMARY FUNCTION
As a Systems Architect, your expertise will drive the development of cutting-edge BMS architectures, focusing on global harmonization, compliance, and safety. Contribute to seamless integration of advanced battery technologies, shaping innovative solutions that support the ESS product line. Your role in systems architecture, communication interfaces, controls requirements, and battery safety will play a pivotal role in the evolution of our ESS products.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Systems Architecture:
- Develop and recommend BMS architecture for each family/program to achieve product line and global harmonization.
- Maintain and update BMS functional software (SW) and hardware (HW) requirements for battery applications within different EE and ESS architectures.
- Ensure compliance with corporate and regulatory standards.
- Identify and propose opportunities for harmonizing BMS functional requirements globally, supporting program features, system requirements, and legislative prerequisites.
- Establish best practices for capturing BMS functional requirements, interpreting their impact, and facilitating cross-functional team communication.
- Provide technical clarification of designs with suppliers and manufacturing.
BMS Communication Interface Requirements:
- Establish BMS communication interface requirements with global alignment opportunities.
- Create BMS communication interface topology charts and flow diagrams.
- Identify and suggest enhancements for BMS communication interface requirements.
- Recommend a process for managing changes in communication interface requirements.
BMS Controls Requirements:
- Develop BMS Controls functional requirements, including contactor control, voltage, current, and cell management controls.
- Identify opportunities for global harmonization of functional requirements.
- Create high-level flow charts and diagrams for BMS controls requirements.
Battery Safety Requirements:
- Develop comprehensive Battery functional safety requirements, covering aspects like thermal propagation, outgas detection, cell pressure sensing, and other related safety requirements.
- Ensure compliance with corporate and regulatory safety standards.
- Design high-level functional safety requirement flow charts and diagrams.
General Expectations for Engineering Support Areas:
- Create robust test plans to achieve BMS Systems deliverables.
- Provide technical clarifications to suppliers and manufacturing.
- Support Component Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA).
- Assist validation and test teams with strategic planning.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to verify battery software requirements meet customer needs.
- Aid software Design Responsible Engineers (DREs) in root cause analysis and best practices.
- Other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or electrical engineering or related fields
- Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience of circuit level design experience
- Demonstrated technical expertise and competencies in Energy Storage Battery Systems
- Experience with software development, diagnostics, and data analysis tools (e.g., HIL testers, CANalyzer, INCA, etc.)
- Proficiency with requirements tools such as DOORS and CANape
- Experience using a disciplined system development process based on ASPICE or CMMI model
- Thorough system level knowledge of electrification technology functionality and features
- Knowledge of battery test methods and procedures
- Experience with electrical/electronic components used in BMS hardware
Benefits:
- 401(k) with company match
- Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
- Voluntary Insurance options
- Paid time off
- Sick time
- Employee Assistance Program
Join us to shape the future of our technology landscape while working in a dynamic environment that fosters growth and innovation!
Aither Systems provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics