Description
Develop and optimize automotive products and components using CAD and data-driven methods. Own product requirements, specifications, validation, and manufacturability; lead prototype builds, modifications, and testing through launch.
- • Stay current on automotive technologies, standards, and competitive products.
- • Define and maintain product requirements, specifications, and acceptance criteria.
- • Establish and monitor product quality and production standards.
- • Prepare and present technical reviews, roadmaps, and project status.
- • Develop and improve manufacturing, assembly, and test procedures.
- • Write, review, and maintain product documentation, drawings, and change records.
- • Conduct feasibility studies, benchmarking, and cost-benefit analyses.
- • Coordinate with procurement, suppliers, manufacturing, service, and quality teams.
- • Provide technical guidance to engineers, technicians, and supplier partners.
- • Perform failure analyses, tolerance and variation studies, and root cause investigations.
- • Define and integrate control or feature requirements with systems and software teams.
- • Develop engineering specifications, bills of materials, and cost estimates.
- • Plan and execute design and production validation, including calibration and test tooling.
- • Lead product and design reviews and risk assessments.
- • Calibrate or tune product parameters, control algorithms, or firmware as needed.
- • Research and implement green and high-efficiency technologies in new and existing products.
- • Build prototypes and simulation models to verify design intent and features.
- • Modify designs to meet performance, cost, safety, and reliability targets.
- • Design or analyze subsystems such as powertrain components, electronics, thermal, safety, or diagnostics.
- • Plan and direct component-, system-, and vehicle-level testing and data analysis.
- • Specify control strategies for energy management, emissions, safety, or performance.
- • Develop alternative design concepts to improve efficiency, durability, or cost.
- • Engineer products for recyclability, sustainability, and material circularity.
- • Select and qualify lightweight or advanced materials to meet mass and performance goals.
- • Define requirements for products used in hybrid, electric, or alternative-fuel architectures.
- • Evaluate and integrate connected, telematics, and intelligent features into products.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
