Pulkit Gaindhar
Angestellt, Vehicle Performance Management & Driveability Engineering, Toyota Motor Europe
Brussels, Belgien
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Ambitious, self-started experienced engineer with a demonstrated history of advanced technical product development and project management in the automotive industry. Early phase/concept development for Lexus & Toyota vehicles in the EU (driving performance). Initiator and leader of big data usage projects to reflect the voice of customers & vehicle usage in product development by using ML, NLP in Agile methodology.
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Berufserfahrung von Pulkit Gaindhar
Bis heute 3 Jahre und 3 Monate, seit Apr. 2021
Vehicle Performance Management & Driveability Engineering
Toyota Motor Europe
Developed a new drive force design that matches driver’s intention of acceleration to vehicle feedback in a linear way (Fun-To-Drive concept). Product Owner (Scrum) of NLP application using machine learning to reflect voice of the customer in product development. Lead negotiation and decision making amongst stakeholders between EU, Japan and North America. Project responsibility for driveability - Minor/Full European Model changes for Toyota and Lexus vehicles for Electric & Hybrid vehicles
2 Jahre und 1 Monat, Apr. 2019 - Apr. 2021
Vehicle Performance Engineer
Toyota Motor Europe
Initiated data driven vehicle development projects across R&D via dashboards for data visualisation. Benchmark competitive vehicles for driveability assessments at locations across EU. Conduct analysis of big-data collected during vehicle testing to identify driveability concerns (using tools: AVL Drive, MATLAB, Python) Develop driveability metrics and targets correlated to customer satisfaction
1 Jahr und 7 Monate, Okt. 2017 - Apr. 2019
Graduate (Graduate Development Programme)
Toyota Motor Europe
Demonstrate Toyota way values, customer-first mindset, problem solving, root cause analysis and countermeasures development via business use-cases. Worked in a Toyota production plant in the UK as part of line training (5 weeks) as an assembly line worker - hood assembly. Retail Training: Understand vehicle sales business as an engineer by shadowing and working at a vehicle dealership. Cross Divisional Training: worked in vehicle concept development division to grasp internal stakeholders requirements.
Master Thesis: Designed, programmed and validated an engineering tool (Noise Map tool) on MATLAB to simulate Noise, Vibration and Harshness of a vehicle powertrain (NVH). Acoustic research engineer in vehicle NVH division, worked on homologation and noise simulation projects for top 2 German automotive OEMs. Vehicle Homologation and validation of Pass-by-Noise test analysis by conducting vehicle exterior noise simulation with respect to measurement.
Ausbildung von Pulkit Gaindhar
2016 - 2017
M.Sc. Automotive engineering
FH Aachen – University of Applied Sciences
Grade: summa cum Laude (sehr gut mit Auszeichnung) 1.0
2015 - 2016
M. Eng. Automotive engineering
RMIT University
Grade: Magna cum laude (GPA 3.8/4.00)
2010 - 2014
B. Eng. Mechanical Engineering
BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus
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