Research Engineer

About the Role

You are applying for the position of Research Engineer within the Research department. We support both the software and engineering services departments. The job will be a great opportunity to learn and contribute over a wide range of technologies and applications. The role will be based at the Nottingham Head Office, UK with occasional work at Nottingham Testing Facility.

You will be part of a team or running individual technical research projects to enhance some of the following:

• Research potential new areas and methods for CAE simulation for drivelines (or beyond) via some but not all of the 4 technical skills below:

o Prototype code in Python or C#. (coding skills not essential)

o Use of commercial CAE & CAD software

o Operating and collecting and analysing data from physical test rigs

• Research new Engineering methods, procedures and workflow efficiencies
• Support the testing of new software functionalities
• Help the software products technical support team to disseminate knowledge to customers. Including attending and providing resource for some client technical training sessions (virtual or on site)
• Provide technical support and resource for client Engineering projects
• Provide sales and marketing support via technical case studies, attending conferences

You will:

• Organise, and report to, technical reviews with other Research team members and additional departments’ staff as appropriate
• Develop research results as internal and external technical papers and to adoption by the software department as the basis of new software product or by the engineering department as new methods and procedures
• Manage one’s own time with support from line manager and often to be the project technical lead when it is a one-person project
• Teamwork with other Research staff and departments
• Adhere to Research team’s internal standards for document writing and control, data storage (e.g., large FE files) and coding standards (mostly Python)
• Keep up to date and compliant with all relevant legislation and Company policies and procedures, with particular attention to the requirements of 'Information Security’ and 'Quality’ practices

What you’ll need to succeed:

• Degree educated with a final qualification of a strong 2:1 or higher in an engineering or numerical science degree. Masters or PhD can be helpful but not essential.
• A conscientious team player with the ability to foster good working relationships
• Self-motivated and able to drive own research projects
• Good presentation skills. We will provide further training
• Knowledge and experience of mechanical and electric drivelines, and their components (Desirable but not essential)
• Knowledge and experience of CAD, FEA & MBD software such as Solidworks, ANSYS, MSC Adams, and programming languages including Python and C# (Desirable but not essential)