Senior Engineer IV - Tech. Lead Complexity Optimization

Inside the Role

Daimler Truck North America (DTNA) is advancing Product Complexity Optimization as a strategic imperative to simplify its product and part portfolio, improve operational efficiency, strengthen long-term competitiveness, and support the company's strategic ambition to be the undisputed market leader.
The Technical Lead role serves as the primary technical leader and advisor for enterprise-wide complexity optimization across DTNA's product portfolio. It drives technical idea generation, proposal development, and evaluation activities required to identify and advance meaningful complexity optimization opportunities.
Working across Engineering and DTNA's key business functions, this position enables teams to challenge existing requirements, designs, standards, portfolio decisions, and manufacturing processes to identify opportunities for simplification. Success requires deep engineering expertise, broad vehicle knowledge, and a strong understanding of customer applications and business needs. The goal is to reduce unnecessary complexity without compromising customer value, product functionality, or vehicle capability.

With high visibility across the Engineering organization, the role partners closely with Engineering leadership to prioritize and advance complexity optimization proposals.
The role is a critical enabler of DTNA's Complexity Optimization strategy, supporting the delivery of up to $250 million in sustainable cost savings and operational efficiency gains by 2030.

Posting Information

We provide a scheduled posting end date to assist our candidates with their application planning. While this date reflects our latest plans, it is subject to change, and postings may be extended or removed earlier than expected.

We Take Care of Our Team

• Serve as DTNA's technical lead for complexity optimization, driving the identification, development, and evaluation of technical complexity optimization opportunities and developing technically and financially sound proposals.
• Guide Engineering teams in identifying opportunities to simplify DTNA's product portfolio, part portfolio, and manufacturing processes while preserving customer value, product functionality, and vehicle capability.
• Facilitate technical workshops and working sessions that identify optimization opportunities, challenge assumptions, and mature proposals toward decision readiness.
• Collaborate across Engineering, Manufacturing, Procurement, Supply Chain, Quality, Service, Sales, Marketing, Product Strategy, and other functions to build alignment and advance proposals.
• Identify and shape high-impact complexity optimization opportunities that deliver significant business value across DTNA's product portfolio and operations.
• Present complexity optimization recommendations, tradeoffs, risks, and investment cases to Engineering and executive leadership.
• Partner closely with Engineering leadership to prioritize opportunities and secure the resources needed to advance approved complexity optimization proposals.
• Serve as DTNA's technical advisor and thought leader for complexity optimization by establishing methods and best practices, mentoring teams, and influencing technical decision‑making across the organization.
• Mentor and influence engineering leaders and teams to embed a complexity optimization mindset across DTNA's engineering culture

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, systems engineering, industrial engineering, or a related technical field and 12+ years of engineering experience in an industrial, automotive, or commercial vehicle OEM environment, is required
• Broad system level understanding of vehicle architectures, systems,…