Rimac Automobili

Mechanical Hardware Designer

Rimac Automobili  •  Witney, GB (Onsite)  •  2 days ago
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Job Description

About Us

Rimac Energy is a technology company at the forefront of advanced battery energy storage, power conversion, and control systems for demanding, fast-moving energy applications. We design and build hardware that solves hard problems — from grid-connected inverters and energy storage systems through to high-voltage power distribution and accessory control products used in real-world deployments.

Our teams span mechanical design, electrical engineering, software, controls, compliance, testing, supply chain, and manufacturing. We are fast-moving, technically ambitious, and results-driven. If you join us, you will work on genuinely complex problems alongside engineers who care deeply about what they build.

We expect a lot. We also offer a lot: real ownership, real products, and the chance to contribute to technology that pushes the boundaries of what energy systems can do.

Key Responsibilities

Mechanical Hardware Design

  • Own component design for all assigned parts and commodities, including electrical routing, thermal routing, structural enclosures, assembly features, and packaging constraints

  • Ensure mechanical requirements are met, reviewed, documented, and signed off before design release

  • Create, maintain, and release accurate 3D models, 2D drawings, design data, and production documentation

  • Support mechanical component selection by assessing package, material, process, cost, supplier capability, validation, and serviceability constraints

  • Define materials, finishes, coatings, plating, fasteners, torque requirements, and interface details for conductive and structural components — including electrical contacts, busbars, brackets, enclosures, and grounding hardware

  • Support virtual builds and build-process documentation to confirm assembly sequence, access, tooling clearance, routing, serviceability, and repeatability

Electrical Packaging & Integration

  • Translate electrical diagrams, schematics, wiring information, control and communication interfaces, EPB and safety needs, and hardware requirements into practical mechanical packaging solutions

  • Package PCBs, contactors, fuses, filters, sensors, connectors, cable glands, busbars, cooling systems, brackets, and associated enclosures

  • Support EMC-aware packaging — including cable routing, filter placement, grounding, bonding, shielding, segregation, conductive interfaces, and enclosure-level design features

  • Contribute to design decisions that balance efficiency, grid compliance, EMC performance, safety, cost, thermal performance, manufacturability, and launch timing

CAE, Verification, Testing & Launch

  • Act as an integral interface with the CAE team, interpreting simulation results and converting them into design actions that meet mechanical, thermal, structural, vibration, and durability requirements

  • Support testing, prototype build, verification, integration, and launch activities with build notes, design data, fixtures, packaging updates, and rapid issue resolution

  • Capture build feedback, test observations, fit issues, tolerance concerns, supplier questions, and design risks

  • Use structured problem-solving to identify issues, containment actions, root causes, countermeasures, and robust design improvements

Supplier, Customer & Cross-Functional Working

  • Support supplier and customer interaction covering DFM, tooling, verification, integration, issue resolution, cost, delivery timing, and design maturity

  • Conduct cross-functional reviews for high-priority tasks and where risk, timing, or integration impact warrants wider review

  • Solve complex problems by drawing on expertise across the team, supply chain, and wider industry where needed

Cost, Supply Chain & Delivery Ownership

  • Support cost analysis, design-to-cost trade-offs, supplier feasibility reviews, and cost-reduction activities without compromising requirements or launch quality

  • Coordinate with supply chain to ensure parts are ordered, tracked, and delivered to MRD timings

  • Communicate part and commodity status clearly — including release status, supplier manufacture, expected delivery, and PO status

  • Operate a robust task and time-management process, escalating risks early with clear mitigation plans and revised target dates

Documentation & Process

  • Develop and maintain Jira tickets, Confluence documentation, design review materials, decisions, open issues, and sign-off evidence

  • Maintain part naming, attributes, drawing references, release information, and EBoM structure to company standards

  • Ensure all due dates are met, or that robust mitigation is communicated with new target dates before deadlines are missed

Required Skills & Experience

Techincal Background

  • Degree, apprenticeship, HNC/HND, or equivalent practical experience in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, Mechatronics, or a related field

  • Strong experience creating mechanical designs for electrical, electronic, power-electronic, or energy-system hardware

  • Confident using 3DEXPERIENCE CAD and 2D drawing tools, with strong knowledge of GD&T, tolerancing, materials, finishes, and production documentation

  • Ability to read and interpret electrical diagrams, schematics, wiring diagrams, interface documents, system requirements, and packaging constraints

  • Working understanding of electrical packaging — routing, shielding, grounding, creepage, clearance, heat dissipation, isolation, and service access

Practical Experience

  • Experience supporting prototype builds, virtual builds, product integration, design validation, or low-volume manufacturing

  • Exposure to enclosures, harness routing, busbars, connectors, PCBs, filters, terminals, cooling systems, sensors, brackets, and mounting systems

  • Ability to balance electrical performance, mechanical robustness, compliance, cost, MRD timing, and build practicality in a fast-moving environment

  • Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to challenge assumptions and resolve interface issues across mechanical, electrical, CAE, supplier, and manufacturing teams

  • Structured approach to problem solving, Jira management, drawing release, design reviews, documentation, requirements traceability, and EBoM discipline

Considered an Advantage

  • Experience with battery energy storage systems, inverters, power conversion systems, grid-connected equipment, or high-voltage/high-power assemblies

  • Experience designing or packaging inverters, power distribution units, control enclosures, harnesses, or thermal management commodities

  • Familiarity with EMC design principles — EMC filtering, shield termination, bonding, earthing, and standards such as IEC 61000 or equivalent

  • Awareness of product compliance and electrical safety standards for grid-connected or power-electronics products: IEC 62477, UL 1741, EN 50549, G99, or equivalent

  • Experience with requirements, PLM, issue-tracking, and documentation tools such as Jira, Confluence, 3DEXPERIENCE, or similar

  • Hands-on understanding of component testing, supplier development, tooling, cost analysis, manufacturing methods, and design-for-assembly improvements

What We Offer

  • Technically challenging, high-impact work on advanced energy storage and power conversion products — from concept through prototype, validation, and production

  • Real ownership of your parts and commodities, with visibility across the full product lifecycle

  • A collaborative, cross-functional engineering culture with strong links between mechanical, electrical, controls, software, compliance, CAE, test, supply chain, and manufacturing

  • Fast-paced environment where practical problem-solving and initiative are genuinely valued

  • Continuous learning and development, with exposure to rapidly evolving energy and power electronics technology

  • A friendly, ambitious team that works hard and takes pride in what it builds

Rimac Automobili

About Rimac Automobili

Rimac Automobili is one part of Bugatti Rimac. With Rimac Group as its majority shareholder, Bugatti Rimac brings together Rimac’s distinctive agility, technical expertise and cutting-edge innovation in the EV sphere, with Bugatti’s 115-year heritage of design and engineering some of the world’s most iconic hypercars. Founded in 2009 by Mate Rimac, the Rimac brand created the world’s first all-electric hypercar, the Concept_One, in 2011. In 2018, Rimac revealed the next-generation all-electric hypercar – C_Two – which would evolve into the Nevera. Rimac’s global headquarters is located at Rimac Group’s new base, the €200M, 100.000 m2 Rimac Campus, also serving as the home of Rimac Technology.

Industry
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Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Sveta Nedelja, HR
Year Founded
2009
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