Description

• The Feature Technical Lead role will coordinate the cross functional team activities with a goal of meeting or exceeding the launch metrics for new features while advocating as the Voice of the Customer. The successful candidate will work seamlessly with colleagues in Product Planning, Core Engineering, Systems Engineering, HMI, and Validation, with a focus on new feature development and delivery to meet corporate milestones.
• Responsibilities include but not limited to:
  • Ensure common process and consistent execution of the virtual/physical tools and processes
  • Create and Maintain customer functional objectives, targets, and guidelines
  • Act as the technical expert at the vehicle level for assigned domain areas
  • Assist in creation of new test procedures and revisions of existing procedures
  • Support Vehicle Issue Resolution as a member of first responder team
  • Participate in global alignment of requirements
  • Lead lessons learned for domain area
  • Own initiatives to address Quality, Warranty, and 3rd Party evaluation concerns
  • Support Platform new feature development
  • Support program specific new feature development
  • Competitive Benchmarking
  • Voice of Customer Clinics

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science Electrical, Mechanical, Software, or Systems Engineering from an ABET accredited university
• 5 years of automotive experience
• Very positive attitude with ability to facilitate with cross-functional experience
• Highly motivated individual with a track record of "getting things done"
• Self-starter who can work cross-functionally with other organizations
• Outstanding interpersonal and problem-solving skills
• Good mentoring and coaching skills with ability to work directly with individuals and groups
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written and ability to communicate technical content to a non-technical audience
• Good project coordination skills
• Flexibility - must be able to adapt to changing environment with minimal effect on productivity
• Master of Science in Electrical, Mechanical, or Software Engineering or equivalent from an ABET accredited university
• Knowledge of IBM doors and ANSYS Medini Analyze or similar ALM/PLM management tools
• Experience with embedded software development
• Experience with Systems Engineering
• Experience with system network topology diagrams
• Automotive experience either at work or university, such as Formula SAE, SAE EcoCAR, or other university automotive activity