Lyra are currently recruiting for the following positions

Senior Engineer – Electronics

Senior Engineer – Software

Senior Engineer – Systems

If you are ready to take on your next challenge and want to work in a small but fast-growing company dedicated to future technologies, please apply by sending your C.V. with a covering letter to hr@lyraelectronics.com.

Senior Engineer – Electronics
Location: Wellesbourne
Job type: Full time
Salary: £50,000 – £85,000 pa (depending on experience and ability)

The company
Lyra Electronics is a growth-stage high-technology engineering company working at the leading edge of power electronics and battery technologies.
With established roots in motorsport and the automotive industry, Lyra Electronics serves the growing demands of any industry that is looking to embrace electrification to improve its cost performance and environmental footprint.
Lyra specialises in high efficiency, compact and high performance DC-DC converters, motor drive inverters, battery management systems and other power electronics topologies to support electrification of all industries.
We at Lyra Electronics are looking to recruit the highest calibre engineers to join our highly motivated team to make their own contribution to a fast growing company in a fast moving industry.

The role
Lyra needs to double its size over the next year and the company has reached the stage where leadership structure has become important to maximise the productivity and drive of the entire team.
As a senior engineer, reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will take responsibility for the technical delivery of one or more projects and ensure that the team of engineers on those projects understand their tasks and responsibilities.
You will take ownership for your own tasks and will endeavour to deal with issues using your own acumen. You will communicate closely with the Project Management team and will escalate issues when appropriate.
You will have sufficient technical knowledge and capability that you can understand new concepts and principles driven by Lyra’s founder and Chief Technical Officer, and drive relevant work scopes into the engineering team. You will integrate your own methods and ideas in order to deliver the company’s technically innovations.
You will understand the fundamentals of power electronics both in terms of software and hardware and you will be driven by your belief in the importance of both for future mobility, industry and the supporting infrastructure.
Lastly, you will enjoy working as part of a close knit team where every individual’s contribution matters and where you will have the freedom to interact directly with every member of the business.

Responsibilities
To fulfil the role you will
• write and interpret specifications and requirements
• ensure adherence to requirements documentation
• support the development of, and ensure adherence to, project plans
• create electronic schematics for power electronics components (DC-DC, motor inverters, battery charging and management, etc.)
• support PCB layout
• carry out simulation for power electronics devices and understand the limitations of such simulations
• support product documentation (e.g. design notes, bills of materials, user manuals)
• understand the implications of ISO26262
• be familiar with ASIL ratings and Functional Safety
• be capable of the highest quality of communication to the Project Management team, the Engineering Manager and customers
• be comfortable working directly with customers including, from time to time, on site at their premises
• understand the importance of test, quality assurance and release processes and assure strict adherence to these at all time
• demonstrate a self-motivated approach to problem solving

Minimum educational qualifications
• Degree in Electronics Engineering or equivalent.

Previous Experience
• you will have a minimum of five years working within a similar field of embedded electronics design or application
• you will have coached one or more junior engineers
• you will have good working knowledge of the challenges surrounding electrification of transport and industry

Other advantageous skills
• practical soldering skills (using a microscope) required for PCB assembly
• knowledge of the use and limitations of lab test equipment and instrumentation
• experience of MATLAB / Simulink / LabVIEW / MISRA C
• experience of working with electric vehicles
• knowledge of designing for high voltages and high currents
• experience of DFMEA

Senior Engineer – Software
Location: Wellesbourne
Job type: Full time
Salary: £50,000 – £85,000 pa (depending on experience and ability)

The company
Lyra Electronics is a growth-stage high-technology engineering company working at the
leading edge of power electronics and battery technologies.

With established roots in motorsport and the automotive industry, Lyra Electronics serves
the growing demands of any industry that is looking to embrace electrification to improve its
cost performance and environmental footprint.

Lyra specialises in high efficiency, compact and high performance DC-DC converters, motor
drive inverters, battery management systems and other power electronics topologies to
support electrification of all industries.

We at Lyra Electronics are looking to recruit the highest calibre engineers to join our highly
motivated team to make their own contribution to a fast growing company in a fast moving
industry.

The role
Lyra needs to double its size over the next year and the company has reached the stage
where leadership structure has become important to maximise the productivity and drive of
the entire team.

As a senior engineer, reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will take responsibility for the
technical delivery of one or more projects and ensure that the team of engineers on those
projects understand their tasks and responsibilities.

You will take ownership for your own tasks and will endeavour to deal with issues using your
own acumen. You will communicate closely with the Project Management team and will
escalate issues when appropriate.

You will have sufficient technical knowledge and capability that you can understand new
concepts and principles driven by Lyra’s founder and chief technical officer, and drive
relevant work scopes into the engineering team. You will integrate your own methods and
ideas in order to deliver the company’s technically innovations.

You will understand the fundamentals of power electronics both in terms of software and
hardware and you will be driven by your belief in the importance of both for future mobility,
industry and the supporting infrastructure.

Lastly, you will enjoy working as part of a close knit team where every individual’s
contribution matters and where you will have the freedom to interact directly with every
member of the business.

Responsibilities
To fulfil the role you will
• Support the development of, and ensure adherence to, project plans
• Interpret internal/customer specifications and ensure adherence to requirements
documentation
• Analyse, refine and decompose high level requirements to generate software
requirements
• Have experience across all phases of V style software development cycle
• Have experience with software architecture design, component identification and
interface definition
• Implement embedded software to drive power electronics components included
embedded code, APIs and user interfaces
• Demonstrate C programming skills as per coding guidelines such as MISRA
• Have experience with communication protocols such as CAN, I2C, SPI, Flexray, LIN
and writing drivers for them
• Have experience with 32-bit MCUs such as TI C2000, Infineon Tricore AURIX family
etc.
• Understand low-level electronics and be able to trace schematics as required during
software debugging and testing
• Write unit, integration and system level test specification and test the embedded
software as per test specifications
• Support simulation activities for power electronics devices
• Have experience working within A-SPICE, ISO26262 (or equivalent) Systems
Process management
• Be familiar with ASIL ratings and Functional Safety
• Support product documentation (user manuals, etc.)
• Be comfortable working directly with customers including, from time to time, on site at
their premises
• Understand the importance of test, quality assurance and release processes and
assure strict adherence to these at all time
• Demonstrate a self-motivated approach to problem solving
• Be capable of the highest quality of communication to the Project Management team,
the Engineering Manager and customers
Minimum educational qualifications
• Degree in Electronics Engineering or equivalent.

Previous Experience
• You will have a minimum of five years working within a similar field of embedded
software design or application ideally for the control of power electronics
• You will have coached one or more junior engineers
Other advantageous skills
• Experience using version control and change management tools
• Experience with Model Based Software Development using Matlab/Simulink and auto
C code generation using Embedded Coder/Targetlink
• Experience with AUTOSAR based toolchain
• Experience in writing ‘apps’ for Android and iOS
• Experience of working in the automotive industry
• Knowledge of writing software for high voltages and high currents
• Experience of DFMEA

 

 

 

Senior Engineer – Systems
Location: Wellesbourne Site
Job type: Full time
Salary: £50,000 – £85,000 pa (depending on experience and ability)

The company
Lyra Electronics is a growth-stage high-technology engineering company working at the
leading edge of power electronics and battery technologies.
With established roots in motorsport and the automotive industry, Lyra Electronics serves
the growing demands of any industry that is looking to embrace electrification to improve its
cost performance and environmental footprint.
Lyra specialises in high efficiency, compact and high performance DC-DC converters, motor
drive inverters, battery management systems and other power electronics topologies to
support electrification of all industries.
We at Lyra Electronics are looking to recruit the highest calibre engineers to join our highly
motivated team to make their own contribution to a fast growing company in a fast moving
industry.

The role
Lyra needs to double its size over the next year and the company has reached the stage
where leadership structure has become important to maximise the productivity and drive of
the entire team.
As a senior engineer, reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will take responsibility for the
technical delivery of one or more projects and ensure that the team of engineers on those
projects understand their tasks and responsibilities.
You will take ownership for your own tasks and will endeavour to deal with issues using your
own acumen. You will communicate closely with the Project Management team and will
escalate issues when appropriate.
You will have strong experience in systems engineering and will share the responsibility of
growing Lyra’s Systems Engineering capability with the Engineering Manager.
You will understand the importance of Systems Engineering and the application of it to
electrification of the transport industry. You will have good experience of the automotive
industry.
Lastly, you will enjoy working as part of a close knit team where every individual’s
contribution matters and where you will have the freedom to interact directly with every
member of the business.

Responsibilities
To fulfil the role you will
• drive the application and implementation of requirements led engineering
• ensure adherence to requirements
• support the development of, and ensure adherence to, project plans particularly the implication of work load associated with process management and functional safety
• have some experience in controls and software
• have strong experience working with, and applying the concept of, ISO26262 (or equivalent) Systems Process management
• be familiar with ASIL ratings and Functional Safety
• be capable of the highest quality of communication to the Project Management team, the Engineering Manager and customers
• be comfortable working directly with customers including, from time to time, on site at their premises
• be able to communicate the implications of functional safety on timing and cost to a non-technical audience (i.e. provide Business     Development support)
• understand the importance of test, quality assurance and release processes and assure strict adherence to these at all time
• demonstrate a self-motivated approach to problem solving

Minimum educational qualifications
• Degree in Electronics Engineering or equivalent

Previous Experience
• you will have a minimum of five years working within a similar field of embedded software design or application ideally for the control of power electronics
• you will have coached one or more junior engineers

Other advantageous skills
• having led a Systems Engineering team
• having a background in Controls, Software or Electronics
• having experience of system level product integration (such as whole vehicle)