Lead Engineer - Calibration
Mahindra Group · Posted Nov 5
Automotive, farm equipment, information technology, financial services, and hospitality services
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About the role
The role sits within Mahindra's gasoline engine development and calibration function in Chennai, focused on engine and vehicle calibration, emissions, performance, and homologation. The work spans combustion, injection, exhaust after-treatment, OBD, and EMS supplier coordination. This Lead Engineer will plan calibration activities, analyze test issues, and deliver engineering targets with cross-functional teams.
What you will do
- Gasoline engine Optimization involving activities like, steady state performance and emission developement, including but not limited to combustion system, injection system, exhaust after-treatment system and generating Cal dataset.
- Gasoline vehicle calibration involving, vehicle emission developement, vehicle calibration, drivability, environmental corrections, cold start and OBDI & OBD-II.
- Emission & Performance Robustness and homologation trials for engines type approval.
- Develop competency on methologies and tools in calibration development
- Laise with EMS supplier and other key system suppliers for system selection and optimization.
- Laise with CFT like Vehicle Integration, NVH, Electricals, Performance simulation, Engine development centre, Reliability and Service for engineering targets delivery.
- Plan for the day-today calibration activities and maintain a project tracker.
- Collect & collate benchmark data.
- Analyse the issues arising out of test to confirm the design by root cause analysis of the problems / issues by using various problem solving techniques like Global 8D or other problem solving tools.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Experience 8-10 years
- Industry Preferred Automobile
- Qualifications BE/Btech/ME/Mtech
- Good communication skills
- Willingness to work as a team in highly dynamic environment.
- Well versed with usage of INCA software.
- Goodworking knowledge of Engines along with technologies to improve the efficiency
- Basic understanding of engine architecture
- Basic understanding of combustion system and emission control. Effects of combustion hardware on performance and emission.
- Knowledge of calibration softwares -INCA and other data acquisition tools.
- Basic coding skills in Matlab and /or Phython
- Knowledge of vehicle sub systems which affect vehicle performance parameters
- Knowledge of steady state engine development on engine bench
- Knowledge of EMS system component selection and evaluation methods
- Knowledge of vehicle calibration, comfort functions, drivability, IOBD, IUPR etc
- Understanding of Intake, exhaust, cooling and fuel system interfaces on engine performance and emissions.
- Failure analysis, root cause analysis
- Awareness of emission cycles, Various norms & Regulations along with test procedures.
- Should have worked in MPFI / TGDI engine development program in the arae of engine calibration.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Mahindra Group
The Mahindra Group is a multinational conglomerate federation of companies with a presence across more than 20 industries globally. The group holds leadership positions in utility vehicles, farm equipment, information technology, and financial services. Driven by its core purpose to enable people to Rise, Mahindra operates across over 100 countries.
- Industry
- Conglomerate
- Company size
- 327000+ employees
- Founded
- 1945-10-02
- Location
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman
Group CEO & Managing Director
Group Chief Financial Officer
Group Chief Technology Officer
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