HEV/EV Powertrain 1D/OD Simulation Engineer

Detroit Engineered Products; Michigan; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Detroit Engineered Products is seeking a powertrain simulation engineer to model transmission and driveline systems, simulate endurance cycles for new vehicle development using MATLAB, Simulink and SimDriveline.

You will develop virtual control systems to model torque arbitration in AWD, traction control, and predict duty cycles of powertrain components, and you will analyze data to generate duty cycles and estimate mechanical damage.

Qualifications

• Experience in powertrain modeling and endurance analysis.
• Familiarity with MATLAB/Simulink toolchain.
• Ability to process data to generate duty cycles.

Responsibilities

• Model transmission and driveline systems to simulate endurance cycles.
• Develop virtual control systems for torque arbitration in AWD.
• Analyze data to estimate mechanical damage and optimize drive cycles.

Tools

MATLAB

Simulink

SimDriveline

GT Suite

AMESim

Job description

• Model transmission and driveline mechanical systems to simulate powertrain/Battery endurance cycles to support performance and durability assessment for new vehicle development using MATLAB, Simulink, SimDriveline.
• Develop virtual control system in Simulink environment to model torque arbitration logic in AWD systems; traction control mechanisms; transmission shift schedules for predicting duty cycles of powertrain components.
• Support quality and reliability teams with global harmonization of endurance cycles.
• Analyzing and processing the data to generate duty cycles for powertrain components and estimating mechanical damage to optimize the drive cycles globally.
• Experience in electrified propulsion systems with 0D / 1D modeling experience for xEV applications.
• Interpret transmission cross sections to draw lever diagrams, power flow schematics and calculate element wise speeds and torques which are used as loads for performing finite element analysis.
• Familiarity with GT Suite, AMESim and other system modeling tools ideal.