Mechatronic Systems Supervisor

The Mechatronic Systems Supervisor leads and develops a team of Core Systems Engineers responsible for defining, developing, and validating the logical requirements for new and modified mechatronic vehicle features (e.g., electric power steering, e-actuators, motor/gear systems, sensor-actuator control loops, and closed-loop control systems). The team owns the feature definition process end-to-end — from stakeholder/use-case elicitation, through Concept of Operations, system definition, system analysis, and functional safety (DFMEA) development, to the generation and handoff of logical requirements to the Mechatronics application team.

Beyond requirements handoff, the Supervisor's team remains the primary stakeholder throughout the iterative hardware/software cascade and simulation activities performed by Mechatronics, leads the functional safety-to-DFMEA cross-validation checkpoint, and serves as the accountable owner of system/subsystem sign-off. The team also leads physical realization of the system — building mockups, fixtures, or 3D-printed prototypes — and develops and executes the associated test plans.

The Supervisor is accountable for the technical quality, timeliness, and process discipline of the team's requirements and sign-off deliverables, for resource planning and workload distribution across programs, and for the professional growth of direct reports. The role acts as the primary escalation point and program-facing leader for mechatronic feature development, balancing engineering rigor, program timing, and cross-functional relationships with the program, customer experience and vehicle architecture teams, the Mechatronics application team, and quality/supplier partners.

• Directly supervise, coach, and develop Core Systems Engineers, setting individual and team goals aligned to program milestones and department objectives
• Conduct performance management, including goal setting, performance reviews, skills development plans, and career growth conversations
• Plan team capacity and staffing; assign engineers to features/programs based on workload, complexity, and development needs
• Recruit, onboard, and mentor new engineers; identify training needs (e.g., requirements management tools, MATLAB/Simulink, ISO 26262, ASPICE, systems modeling) and coordinate skill-building
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and systems thinking across the full feature lifecycle within the team

• Oversee team communication and coordination of the Feature development process
• Guide the team's engagement with program, customer experience, and vehicle architecture stakeholders to understand the feature vision, define the problem, identify stakeholders, and collect use cases
• Ensure the team develops sound Concept of Operations, system definition (structure, behavior, interfaces), and system analysis deliverables for each new or modified feature
• Review and approve the team's logical requirements prior to handoff, ensuring completeness, testability, and traceability to use cases and system definition artifacts
• Direct the team's DFMEA workstream in parallel with requirements development

• Own the handoff of logical requirements to the Mechatronics application team, and ensure the team provides ongoing, iterative support as Mechatronics cascades requirements to hardware/software and develops MATLAB/Simulink models and virtual (HIL/SIL) verification
• Drive the functional safety-to-DFMEA cross-validation checkpoint, ensuring hazards and high-severity failure modes identified by Core SE and Mechatronics are fully reconciled with no open gaps prior to sign-off
• Serve as the accountable leader…