DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a talented Electronic Braking System (EBS), Engineering Advisor to join our team specializing in Engineering in Troy, MI.

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

• Facilitating Quality Decisions: By gathering input from various stakeholders, you'll ensure that product decisions are well-informed and lead to high-quality outcomes.
• Expert Decision-Making: Your systems knowledge will help you make crucial decisions regarding technology integration, design, and risk trade-offs, enhancing product functionality.
• Process Improvement: You'll create, manage, and improve processes like ESW and iDFMEA, and use specialized tools to support high-quality decision-making.
• Problem Resolution Leadership: You'll lead the resolution of complex system issues, often with significant global business impact, providing clarity in ambiguous situations.
• Work Process Development: By leading the development and improvement of work processes across functions, you'll drive efficiency and effectiveness within the global business unit.
• Team Coordination: You'll coordinate and direct technical project teams, ensuring that projects are completed successfully and on time.
• Specialist Expertise: As a recognized expert, you'll develop local talent and provide guidance across a site or global business unit, enhancing overall team capability.
• Mentorship and Collaboration: You'll coach and mentor other engineers and project managers, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment.

• Product Failure Mode Avoidance: Develop a keen eye for identifying potential failure modes and their causes. This involves understanding interfaces, functions, and control factors to enhance product reliability.
• Product Function Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis: Utilize computational tools to predict and analyze product capabilities. Your insights will be crucial in making informed design decisions.
• Product Interface Management and Integration: Manage and analyze system interfaces to ensure they meet requirements. Create integration plans to streamline the process of diagnosing and correcting issues.
• Product Problem Solving: Implement a structured problem-solving approach to protect customers and prevent recurrence. Focus on data-driven solutions and identifying root causes.
• Product Verification and Validation Management: Develop comprehensive validation plans to manage product risk. Evaluate test results to verify product capabilities and guide project scope.
• System Requirements Engineering: Translate stakeholder needs into verifiable requirements. Track these requirements throughout the lifecycle and assess the impact of changes on project scope and resources.
• Systems Thinking: Define and analyze the system of interest, understanding its context and interactions. Use models and methods to predict behavior and devise modifications for desired outcomes.
• Design and Application of Open/Closed Loop Controls: Specify and understand control system architectures and their interactions with hardware and software to achieve desired system states.

• College, university, or equivalent Bachelor's degree in Engineering or appropriate STEM field is required.
• Post-graduate (Master's) degree relevant to this discipline area may be required for select roles.
• This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

• Demonstrated success having worked in a Technical Specialist/Specialist Engineering role on lower complexity product development activities, translating customer needs and negotiating into product development plans, technical profiles and/or product specifications with a proven track record of successful product decisions.

• Leads Systems Engineering for Electronic Braking Systems (EBS). This will include capture stakeholder requirements (regulatory, customer and internal), and translate it into verifiable requirements for Systems, Sub-systems, and mechatronic work products, to which designs are developed.
• Identifies system components and their influencing parameters such as sensor signals in close cooperation with system architects.
• Leads system identification activity and work with Controls Engineers to setup system simulation models for Anti-Lock Braking System (ABS), Electronic Stability Control (ESC), Anti-Slip Regulation (ASR), Hill Assist, brake distribution, and other features from EBS (Electronic Braking System)
• Leads system risk assessment activities such as Design Failure Mode & Effect Analysis (DFMEA), Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment (HARA), etc.
• Leads braking system vehicle System Integration
• Leads internal and customer vehicle test validation in test tracks.
• Leads and mentor less experience engineers.

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechatronics, Mechanical, Electrical, or any related engineering field. Master's Degree in Engineering is highly desired.
• 15+ years of experience working with Braking Systems, including ABS and EBS.
• Previous experience as a Principal Engineer or Chief Engineer.
• Strong understanding of ABS, ESC/ESP, Traction Control System / Anti-Slip Regulation (TCS/ASR), Hill Assist, brake distribution, and other features of EBS (Electronic Braking System)
• Good knowledge of Pneumatic and Electro-Pneumatic Valves, braking system performance, and its influence in vehicle dynamics behavior.
• Solid prior working experience as a systems engineer, including utilization of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools for requirements creation and management (e.g. Polarion, Doors or PTC Integrity).
• Experience with vehicle network topology (CAN, LIN, ethernet, etc) and Electrical & Electronic (E&E) architecture.
• Good knowledge in sensor, signal processing and data analysis.
• Demonstrated capability of independent development of a system both in a prototype stage, as well as for production.