System Engineering Engineer – Automotive

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We are seeking an Automotive Functional Systems Engineer to support the development and management of vehicle-level functional architectures. The successful candidate will translate high-level vehicle and customer requirements into functional system requirements, coordinate with multidisciplinary engineering teams, and ensure system designs meet project quality, cost, and schedule objectives.

The role involves functional architecture development, connected vehicle services, system-level technical reviews, configuration management, and coordination across vehicle engineering disciplines.

• Functional Architecture: Develop and maintain vehicle-level functional architectures in alignment with project requirements and engineering objectives.
• System Feasibility: Evaluate system design feasibility to ensure alignment with quality, cost, performance, and schedule targets.
• Requirements Decomposition: Translate high-level customer and vehicle requirements into functional groups and system-level requirements.
• Standardization and Reuse: Identify opportunities to standardize and reuse vehicle functions and components to reduce development costs and accelerate time to market.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Work with system analysts, system designers, component leaders, and other engineering teams to align system architecture and functional requirements.
• Technical Reviews: Prepare and coordinate system engineering reviews, including System Requirements Reviews (SRR), System Functional Reviews (SFR), and Preliminary Design Reviews (PDR).
• Architecture Documentation: Maintain system architecture documentation, technical data, and lifecycle information using PLM and system engineering tools.
• Configuration…