REQ ID: 132465

JOB TITLE: Energy Platform Compliance & Standards Engineer

LOCATION: Budapest

Reimagine the future of modern luxury at JLR Hungary. Here you'll find roles from technical to supply chain. You'll collaborate with global teams across multiple sites and work with cutting-edge innovations to deliver extraordinary experiences. Your work will directly shape the next generation of our iconic brands. Come, create an exceptional future.

 
THE OPPORTUNITY

LR Energy Platform is a place to grow your experience, knowledge and capability. We are on an exciting transformation journey to continuously improve and deliver engineering integrity, quality, collaboration, diversity and inclusion.

This is an exciting time to become part of JLR history as we shape our future electrified portfolio and deliver the Energy Platform Core through modular, scalable and reusable system architectures that can be deployed across multiple vehicle programmes.

This role is responsible for the discovery, interpretation, decomposition and deployment of battery and Electrified Propulsion regulations, standards and compliance requirements across JLR's Energy Platform. Working within the Energy Storage Core organisation, the role ensures legislative requirements are understood, traceable, implemented and validated through robust systems engineering practices.

As a key member of the Energy Storage Core team, this role contributes to the development of future battery platforms by ensuring global legislation, standards and certification requirements are anticipated, understood and embedded into platform architectures at the earliest stages of development.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Discover, analyse and interpret global battery, charging and Electrified Propulsion regulations, standards and certification requirements.
• Develop and maintain compliance frameworks, requirement hierarchies and traceability models across Energy Platform systems.
• Translate legislation, standards and regulatory obligations into system requirements, architectures, validation strategies and engineering artefacts.
• Identify technical dependencies, interfaces and compliance impacts across Energy Storage, Charging, ESMS, HV Distribution and vehicle systems.
• Develop compliance matrices and requirement allocation strategies ensuring complete traceability from regulation to implementation and validation.
• Support the development of battery system architectures covering REESS legislation, battery safety, thermal propagation, durability, sustainability and battery performance requirements.
• Analyse emerging regulations, standards and industry trends to understand future impacts on Energy Platform architectures and product strategies.
• Define and maintain regulatory roadmaps covering battery legislation, charging regulations, battery passport requirements, sustainability obligations and homologation activities.
• Support compliance assessments and gap analysis activities to identify risks, opportunities and implementation requirements.
• Develop and maintain a professional network across standards bodies, regulatory organisations, industry forums and technical working groups to support early identification, interpretation and deployment of emerging battery and Electrified Propulsion regulations
• Collaborate with architects and system engineers to ensure requirements are correctly decomposed and allocated within platform architectures.
• Support Design Authority reviews by providing regulatory guidance, compliance assessments and technical recommendations.
• Develop validation strategies and compliance evidence frameworks supporting certification, homologation and regulatory approval activities.
• Collaborate with Compliance, Functional Safety, EMC, Cybersecurity and Validation teams to ensure coherent application of regulatory requirements.
• Engage with industry working groups, standards organisations, suppliers and regulatory bodies to maintain awareness of current and future legislation.
• Maintain Systems Engineering documentation, compliance records and traceability artefacts to support governance and audit readiness.
• Capture lessons learnt and continuously improve compliance processes, methodologies and engineering practices across future programme.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

Essential:

• Degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Battery Technologies, Chemistry or a related engineering discipline.
• Strong understanding of HV Battery Systems, Electrified Propulsion systems and vehicle electrical architectures.
• Strong Knowledge of global battery legislation, REESS regulations, charging standards and homologation requirements.
• Ability to build effective relationships with standards organisations, regulatory authorities and industry stakeholders to influence and interpret evolving legislative requirements.
• Experience analysing, interpreting and decomposing regulations, standards and compliance requirements into engineering deliverables.
• Strong requirements engineering, traceability and compliance management skills.
• Experience applying Systems Engineering and MBSE methodologies to complex engineering systems.
• Understanding of battery technologies, battery management systems, thermal management and HV safety concepts.
• Knowledge of Functional Safety, EMC, electrical safety and regulatory compliance frameworks.
• Experience creating compliance evidence, validation strategies and certification support documentation.
• Strong analytical thinking, structured problem-solving and technical communication skills.
• Ability to understand complex technical systems and identify cross-domain compliance dependencies.
• Experience working with stakeholders across multiple engineering disciplines and organisational functions.
  
  

Desired:

• Experience using MBSE toolsets and systems modelling methodologies.
• Familiarity with UNECE R100, GTR 20, EU Battery Regulation, Battery Passport requirements and global charging regulations.
• Experience supporting homologation, certification or regulatory approval activities.
• Understanding of ISO 26262, ISO 21434, IEC 61851, ISO 15118 and related standards.
• Knowledge of sustainability, circularity and battery lifecycle regulations.
• Experience performing compliance audits, gap analysis and regulatory impact assessments.
• Experience within battery systems, charging systems or Electrified Propulsion product development.
• Knowledge of automotive product development and engineering release processes.
  
  

THE BENEFITS

This role is rewarding in more ways than one. On top of our core offering, you’ll do extraordinary work with amazing people. In addition, you can expect the following benefits:

• Join us for the next level of your career and help develop solutions that shape the future of cars
• Be part of an international, inclusive, and open-minded team where you have actual influence on the processes
• See the product you’re working on come to life from testing all the way to production
• Work flexibly with high percentage of home office or from our award-winning office
• Competitive salary and performance related bonus scheme
• Health and life insurance and cafeteria package
• Various company programs such as charity events or our regular board game club

Creating Modern Luxury requires a modern approach to work. At JLR, hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement providing employees more choice and flexibility around how, when and where they work.

Some roles require more on-site work, but details of this can be discussed with the hiring manager during the interview stage.

We work hard to nurture a culture that is inclusive and welcoming to all. We understand candidates may require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. Please discuss these with your recruiter so we can accommodate your needs.

Applicants from all backgrounds are welcome. If you’re unsure that you meet the full criteria of a role– but you're interested in where it could take you – we still encourage you to apply.

We believe in people’s ability to grow and develop within their role – it’s what makes living the exceptional with soul possible.

JLR is committed to equal opportunity for all.