Hardware Engineer - ECU & Specifications

Job Description

Electronic Control Units (ECUs) are central to a wide range of control functions and are undergoing significant technological advancements in the global automotive market. Our team is looking for a creative and highly energetic ECU Hardware Requirements & Specifications Engineer who can lead the development and management of hardware requirements, low-level software definition and specification for ECU Hardware Component Technical Requirements Specifications (CTRS).

The ideal candidate will have experience with Automotive Embedded Control Systems including ECU circuit-level design, semiconductor and microprocessor application, low-level software design and diagnostics. Additional experience with implementing high Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) designs and applications is desirable.

The candidate will drive innovation, facilitate effective communication, and inspire enthusiasm within the team. We expect you to demonstrate leadership qualities, actively champion change, possess keen business intuition, and strategically address systemic challenges. You should also exhibit high learning agility, the ability to navigate ambiguity and complexity, and a commitment to pushing the boundaries of innovation while challenging the status quo.

You will also interact with and mediate between diverse control system, software and hardware design teams to achieve acceptable ECU requirements to all consumers of them.

In this role you are expected to have a high level of technical proficiency in developing and managing requirements and providing technical leadership to perform ongoing development, maintenance, and configuration management of CTRS requirements that support various build-to-spec and build-to-print ECU designs across GM’s diverse portfolio of vehicles and electrical architectures (including electrification / Electric Vehicle ECU designs). Your contributions will play a key role in enabling standardized hardware designs with a focus on providing common solutions and seamless software implementations across multiple vehicle platforms.

Your role will interface across various GM engineering disciplines as well as external engineering entities to obtain needed information for the requirements development work.

• Perform technical requirements update of existing and develop new ECU hardware electrical and functional interface definitions – including interactions with interfacing vehicle electronic devices and low-level software.
• Support semiconductor & microprocessor functional safety activities in developing requirements to meet safety manual use‑case implementations.
• Standardize I/O interfaces in hardware requirements and drive commonization of components into ECU hardware designs.
• Solicit/identify/create new embedded controller requirement definitions from various GM stakeholders – such as vehicle, electrical/controller architecture, infra‑structure software, low‑level software, diagnostic and hardware design responsible teams.
• Support weekly requirement review and change control meetings that review/approve technical work performed in the update of existing and development of new requirements.
• Perform CTRS compilation and build activities from common and controller specific requirements in support of product team sourcing activities and post‑sourcing design change documentation.
• Identify and implement mechanisms for traceability between internal/external CTRS requirements and their verification activities.
• Align requirements implementation with GM outsourced and build‑to‑print design activities – drive ECU, sub‑component and/or circuit level design modifications where implementations fail to adhere to common requirements definition.
• Support requirement and specification definition and updates for ECU manufacturing, remanufacturing and plant/service programming implementations.
• Stay abreast of new technologies and competitor requirement documentation methods to drive refinement into GM’s requirement documentation and process.
• Domestic and/or international travel as required (minimal, 10% max).

• 2+ years engineering…