Product Engineer Controls

Overview

Transforming the Future with Convergence of Simulation and Data

Product Engineer Controls – Job Summary

Our client in Dearborn, MI is looking for a Product Engineer Controls. This is a contract position.

This position provides an outstanding opportunity to lead high performing teams and work streams required to ensure the on-time software delivery of propulsion controls software. You’ll work directly with other Software Planning & Integration team members, Project Control teams, propulsion calibration teams, and propulsion controls software developers to manage the software delivery, integration, and validation plans for all assigned programs.

• Develop, maintain, and lead the propulsion controls release plans to support program timing and program complexity for assigned programs, in line with Our Client's program milestones.
• Work with Project Controls to understand program timing and program hardware specifications.
• Produce feature by phase plan for each release.
• Produce application and validation plan for each software release.
• Issue Feature Cycle Plan (FCP) requests to feature teams.
• Work with validation team to meet validation plan.
• Work closely with integration team on plans and bug fixes.
• Maintain application planning tools and Jira up to date for all assigned programs; drive issues to resolution; keep issue status updated.
• Track late program software changes through the change control process and ensure software delivery of approved changes.
• Participate in gasoline and electrified change control board, Agile scrum team meetings, program PMST meetings, and lead software CPMT meetings.
• Support bill-of-feature and technical design review process.
• Help identify areas to improve software to help Our Client meet the highest quality, lowest cost products.

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Agile Software Development - familiarity with Agile terminology and Jira for software releases.
• Candidate would be required to participate in daily stand-up meetings with Scrum leader.
• Strong program planning, project management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Outstanding organizational skills.
• Strong team leadership behaviors.

• Program Management – lead application software release plans, support program timing, work closely with integration and validation teams on plans and bug fixes, track late changes through change control and ensure delivery of approved changes.
• Lead component management meetings to communicate with customers.
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Engineering.
• Solid understanding of Product Development System deliverables and reporting processes.
• Program management experience.
• Proficient and/or ability to quickly learn and apply new engineering management and data analytic tools (e.g., Jira, Excel, Custom Tools).
• Experience with Our Client’s in-house software tools (UPS, BP, AP, GTPS).

• Envision the Future
• Communicate Honestly and Broadly
• Seek Technology and Business “First”
• Embrace Diversity and Take Risks

• Competitive Salary
• Comprehensive Benefit Package
• 401(k) with matching contributions
• Paid Time Off
• Employee Discounts
• Free training on all Altair products

Altair is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in the areas of data analytics, product development, and high-performance computing (HPC). Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world, while creating a more sustainable future. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists, and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer’s toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities.

Our vision is to transform customer decision making with data analytics, simulation, and high-performance computing.

For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration. To learn more, please visit

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