Description
Design, integrate, and validate vehicle systems and controls by defining requirements and interfaces, developing system architectures and model-based designs, and coordinating cross-functional integration and system-level testing to deliver safe, reliable, and compliant vehicles.
- • Stay current on automotive systems, standards, and tools through literature, events, and peer forums.
- • Define and manage system requirements, interfaces, and performance targets with full traceability.
- • Develop system architectures and allocate functions across ECUs, sensors, actuators, and networks.
- • Create and maintain system specifications, interface control documents, and engineering documentation.
- • Plan and execute verification and validation, including test plans, cases, and acceptance criteria.
- • Conduct system and technical design reviews.
- • Perform failure analysis and DFMEA and drive root-cause closure.
- • Define control feature requirements and integration strategies.
- • Build behavioral and control models (e.g., SysML, Simulink) for analysis and verification.
- • Develop test methodologies, HIL/SIL rigs, and automation tools.
- • Support calibration of control algorithms to meet system objectives.
- • Coordinate cross-functional integration with hardware, software, calibration, manufacturing, and quality teams.
- • Prepare and present technical and project status reports to stakeholders.
- • Establish and improve systems engineering processes, standards, and quality metrics.
- • Direct or support prototype build, integration, bring-up, and debugging.
- • Plan and conduct system-level testing, validation, and regression analysis.
- • Ensure compliance with functional safety and cybersecurity requirements (e.g., ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434).
- • Develop engineering specifications, trade studies, and cost or weight estimates.
- • Manage configuration, change control, and requirements traceability.
- • Integrate vehicle networks and connectivity features (CAN, LIN, FlexRay, Ethernet).
- • Specify or integrate energy management, emissions, diagnostics, and safety control systems.
- • Develop specifications for electrified and alternative-fuel systems as needed.
- • Research and implement intelligent and connected vehicle technologies.
- • Optimize system performance, efficiency, reliability, and user experience.
- • Collaborate with suppliers on requirements, interfaces, and validation of delivered components.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
