McLaren Automotive Ltd
Technical Specialist Power Consumption
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What to Expect
This role is responsible for leading the simulation, modelling, and verification activities related to vehicle power consumption, ensuring robust technical understanding and control of low-voltage energy demand across the vehicle.
The role drives consumption reduction and optimisation initiatives, knowledge owner of all low-voltage consumers, and is accountable for establishing and maintaining power budgets for component specifications based on benchmarking, engineering analysis, and current programme status.
What You'll Do
Simulation, Modelling & Verification
Accountable for the simulation, modelling, and verification processes used to assess and validate vehicle power consumption performance, ensuring methods are robust, accurate, and aligned to programme needs.
Consumption Reduction & Optimisation
Drive power consumption reduction and optimisation activities across the vehicle, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and supporting trade-off decisions to achieve overall system targets.
Low-Voltage Consumer Ownership
Maintain technical ownership and understanding of all low-voltage consumers within the vehicle, including their behaviour, interactions, and contribution to overall energy demand across defined vehicle level duty cycles.
Power Budget Management
Own and manage the power budgeting for component specifications, using benchmark data, engineering analysis, and current programme maturity to define realistic and controlled consumption targets.
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Cross-Functional Collaboration
Work closely with systems, electrical, software, hardware, and attribute teams to ensure power consumption requirements are understood, cascaded, and managed effectively throughout development.
Technical Governance & Reporting
Provide clear reporting on consumption status, risks, and opportunities, supporting programme reviews and enabling informed technical decisions.
What You'll Bring
- Extensive experience in vehicle power consumption analysis, simulation, modelling, and verification within automotive or high-performance engineering environments.
- Strong technical grounding in low-voltage electrical systems, vehicle consumers, and the factors that drive overall energy demand.
- Practical knowledge of Simulink and System Composer for building, structuring, and maintaining models that support power consumption analysis, system behaviour assessment, and verification activities.
- Direct experience defining, managing, and validating power budgets for components and systems, with the ability to use benchmark data and current programme status to guide technical decisions and specification targets.
- Demonstrated ability to drive consumption reduction and optimisation activities across multiple systems and stakeholders.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with systems, electrical, software, hardware, and attribute teams to manage requirements, assumptions, and trade-offs effectively.
- Degree-qualified in engineering (or equivalent), with a strong understanding of electrical system behaviour, energy management, and structured verification methods.
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What We'll Do for You
We offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
- Structured career development framework
- 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five days
- Enhanced company pension scheme
- Discretionary annual bonus award
- Private medical insurance and health cash plan
- Life assurance benefit
- Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years’ service
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- Generous parental leave policies
- A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice
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