Staff Development Engineer

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The Opportunity:

Driving better future mobility

VS (Vehicle component Solutions) Company (https://www.lg.com/global/mobility) of LG Electronics focuses on commercializing environmentally responsible automotive components and core solutions based on LG’s proprietary technologies. A leading provider of core components for global car manufacturers, VS Company is supporting the emerging trend of the vehicle industry.

Staff Development Engineer

This job requires technical experiences related to building cutting-edge product and Development  experiences.  This position needs to have comfortable working with the manufacturing industry as well as high technology-driven products with LG and customers.  This role is focused on developing a project and deeply involving technical requirements in the development as well as issue resolving. Customer & Tier companies communication and development management to ensure strength and innovation in the LG automotive business. This role is directly influencing the integration project development across all LG and automotive manufactures and requires a confidant with identifying problems,  communicating the concerns and driving for closure in order to deliver the best development quality within the time frame with build trust while demonstrating excellent features implementation and problem resolving skills. This role must play nice with others, have a humble service mindset, and be a results-driven self-motivator. 

Responsibilities:

• Lead project planning, status reporting, team engagement, project risk visualization and mitigation plan
• Development planning s well as managing multiple feature development milestone
• Identify and manage all project development quality during and after development
• Understand team responsibility and provide guide to team members in short to long-term
• Manage OEM customer design request, develop APQP and manage 3rd party solution
• Manage Software & Hardware issues and communicate the customer to handle the issues
• Release weekly development progress report and communicate with customer's engineers
• Communicate with LGE HQ cross-functional teams not limited to program
• Support to resolve both business, manufacturing, and technical issues
• Support to identify and manage all feature issues, publish a weekly report
• Support cross-functional teams Validation, Manufacturing, procurement/Purchasing, Sales and Quality, customers
• Review with the Software/Hardware Project Lead for decisions related to function development
• Team and function management as the main point of contact for the customer
• Follow customers acceptance process in addition to the internal development process
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 12+ years or equivalent experience in Development in automotive component Development
  • or, 15+ years or equivalent engineering experience with developing and/or testing an automotive component
  • or, 18+ years or equivalent experience delivering high-quality products or services to automotive companies 
• Prior experience and/or knowledge of: 
  • Managing multiple technical projects simultaneously and delivering to agreed-upon cost, quality, and timing expectations
  • Recognizing and mitigating both technical and organizational challenges
  • Leading and managing engagements with customers (mostly vehicle Makers), collaborators, and 3rd party software developers.
  • Managing multiple technical projects simultaneously and delivering to agreed-upon cost, quality, and timing expectations
  • Planning and coordinating teams of people
  • Vehicle I