Senior Systems Engineer - Battery Systems

As Senior Systems Engineer, you will lead battery system development and test projects, guiding requirements across the lifecycle and ensuring adherence to standards. You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams and customers to translate needs into robust system designs for HV batteries, BMS, modules, and electrified powertrains. You will drive issue resolution, risk assessments, and integration activities that enable smooth production transfers. This role offers impact on scalable battery architectures within AVL’s sustainable mobility mission.

Design battery systems and sub-systems and integrate them into testing/development environments (HV batteries, BMS, packs, modules, charging, electrified powertrains)

Collaborate with cross-functional and global project teams to ensure seamless system integration

Provide technical support and troubleshooting for battery and test system issues

Coordinate with manufacturing to transfer designs into production

Guide system installation, commissioning, and verification activities

Perform root cause analysis to resolve complex system issues and implement corrective actions

Contribute to system-level risk assessments and reuse best practices across projects

Define and manage battery system requirements, interfaces, and traceability throughout development

Support verification and validation activities including test planning, execution, and results reporting

Contribute to architecture definition and system performance optimization

Develop technical instructions with project team considering function, schedule, and quality

Provide technical clarification to customers on system level requirements, functions and interfaces

Review and refine project requirements and customer use cases with the team

Plan and coordinate integration, verification, and validation until final acceptance

4–7 years of experience in Battery Systems, Electrification Systems, Energy Storage Systems, Automotive Systems Engineering or related area

Experience in requirements engineering, system integration, verification and validation

Experience with battery-related development projects or HV systems is an advantage

Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Willingness to travel

Business fluent English

problem-solving

analytical thinking

customer-focused communication

HV systems

BMS (Battery Management Systems)

Senior Systems Engineer - Battery Systems reggio emilia, emilia romagna, it

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