NPD Electrical Engineer

American Rheinmetall Vehicles, LLC**

**TITLE** NPD Electrical Engineer

**CATEGORY** Engineering

**ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION**

Rheinmetall's U.S. organizations include American Rheinmetall Systems, American Rheinmetall Vehicles, American Rheinmetall Munitions and American Rheinmetall Defense. The operating companies have established engineering and production capabilities that allow them to modify existing products and develop new solutions that meet the priority requirements of their US customers. These products consist of, but are not limited to, game-changing solutions for next-generation vehicles, innovations for increased soldier lethality, and advanced high-tech munitions.

**Description**

**Job Summary:**

Responsible for the design, development and integration of complex military combat vehicle electronics

(vetronics) signal and power distribution systems. Vetronics subject matter expert (SME) on assigned projects under New Product Development (NPD) department of corporation.

Salary Expectations: $94,000 to $114,000

**DIVISION** American Rheinmetall Vehicles, LLC

**LOCATION** Sterling Heights, MI

**POSITION REQUIREMENTS**

**Essential Functions:**

- Requirements analysis, derivation, decomposition and management activities

- Research and analyze solutions to meet customer requirements

- Perform trade studies to compare alternative approaches

- Create and maintain electrical power budgets and allocations

- Develop vehicle electrical (signal, network and video) and power distribution concepts and architectures

- Integration of military lethality, survivability and C5ISR systems

- Develop requirement specifications, drawings, schematics and ICDs

- Perform analytical analysis and simulations to evaluate system performance

- Assists in hands on work to create and test components when necessary to meet schedule deadlines

- Support CPU, GPU, FPGA, power distribution and harness designs and integration

- Understand/create/review test requirements and plans

- Support/Monitor prototype development, Component procurement and prototype build/integration/test activities and analyze results

- Support system-integration-lab (SIL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) activities

- Troubleshoot issues and perform corrective actions

- Support/Monitor Vehicle test and analyze results

- Interact with internal/external customers and suppliers

- Understand/create/Manage project schedules

- Maintain project open issues lists and Prepare/present project status

- Support multidiscipline concurrent engineering activities

**Supervisory Responsibilities:**

- None (currently)

- Potential supervisory/lead responsibilities when other vetronics engineers are hired in as New Product Development department of company expands.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (as demonstrated through experience, training and/or testing)**

Working Knowledge of

- Systems model based design and related Standards/Processes

- Digital, analog, low/high-voltage power, computing bus architecture and RF (radios, GPS, ...)

- Mechatronics and electrical vehicle engineering and integration principles

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are required to work effectively with the US and overseas management, staff, teams, suppliers, and customers

Must be able to communicate effectively and explain complex technical concepts and instructions in a variety of settings in a way that makes sense to someone less knowledgeable about the topic

Ability to engage with an enthusiasm