Aero-Thermal Comfort Engineer

Number of employees

2000

London, United Kingdom

Posted on: 2022-02-08

Category: emobility

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Zero-emission solutions for cities. Human-centred, intelligent design - to revitalise public transportation.

At Arrival, our team is creating best-in-class electric vehicles using a radical new method of design and production. We work with some of the world's leading businesses and governments to achieve our goal of redefining mobility and transport ecosystems, transforming how people and goods travel and enhancing urban environments for all communities.

Innovation, rapid development and testing help us to push the boundaries. Our New Method takes our portfolio of patented technologies created in-house, and combines it with assembly in Arrival Microfactories. It’s a groundbreaking approach, leading to products with maximum functionality, peak efficiency, and an elevated experience – at a much more competitive price than other electric vehicles, and even fossil fuel vehicles.

At Arrival, our team is creating best-in-class electric vehicles using a radical new method of design and production. We work with some of the world's leading businesses and governments to achieve our goal of redefining mobility and transport ecosystems, transforming how people and goods travel and enhancing urban environments for all communities.

Innovation, rapid development and testing help us to push the boundaries. Our New Method takes our portfolio of patented technologies created in-house, and combines it with assembly in Arrival Microfactories. It’s a groundbreaking approach, leading to products with maximum functionality, peak efficiency, and an elevated experience – at a much more competitive price than other electric vehicles, and even fossil fuel vehicles.


 

At Arrival we want all of our employees to feel comfortable bringing their passion, creativity and individuality to work. We value all cultures, backgrounds and experiences, as we truly believe that diversity drives innovation. Join our mission to bring better, more sustainable transportation to communities around the world.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of, and advocate for, the Aero-Thermal Comfort attributes at vehicle level to ensure Arrival products have class leading performance for Occupant Thermal Comfort, deice/defog performance, and Air Quality.
  • Provide guidance & advice on setting targets for Aero-Thermal Comfort attributes for future vehicles, including activities such as:
  • Selecting and benchmarking competitor vehicles
  • Correlating thermal comfort models from simulation and physical tests with subjective scores
  • Investigating new technologies, and building a ‘business case’ for new proposals (comprising efficiency, cost, etc.)
  • Researching papers, latest developments, etc. in order to steer the future Arrival Aero-Thermal Comfort strategy

  • Analyse performance of existing and future vehicles using both simulation and physical testing to determine expected performance and opportunities for improvement in the design
  • Develop the simulation & general Aero-Thermal Comfort development process at Arrival
  • Help to automate the simulation process
  • Collaborate with Technology and Product Innovation teams to develop new technologies/applications to improve Aero-Thermal Comfort attribute performance
  • Work closely with colleagues in the RED-CAT team, sharing knowledge and experience acquired across all Arrival products
  • Review, update and maintain best practice Aero-Thermal Comfort guidelines for use across the company
  • Report status and escalate conflicts to the Aero-Thermal Team Lead
  • Experience

  • 1st Class Masters degree or PhD in Engineering, Maths, Physics, or equivalent scientific subject
  • Excellent team-worker, who is agile, proactive, and has a "startup" attitude
  • Experience creating, running and validating deice/defog, occupant thermal comfort, and air quality simulations using open source software, TAITherm, GT, STAR-CCM+, Amesim, or Simulink.
  • Good modelling knowledge of occupant thermal comfort, heat transfer, refrigerant circuits and control systems.
  • Experience in automation, scripting and programming, preferably in Python
  • Track record demonstrating creativity and ingenuity
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