Senior Systems Engineer - Diesel Controls and Aftertreatment

Job Description

Hybrid: This means the successful candidate is expected to report to their primary location (Milford, MI) three times (Tues., Wed., Thurs.) per week, at minimum.

System Engineers are responsible for partitioning and allocating product, feature and system functionality to implementation teams.

LEVEL EXPECTATIONS:

Fully qualified individual contributor who has knowledge and understanding of all aspects of a function and exercises independent discretion and judgment on significant matters based on professional knowledge. Level most professionals can expect to achieve in their career. 

EXPERTISE

- Recognized as a fully qualified, experienced professional. Has complete knowledge and full understanding of own area and broad knowledge of related areas.
- Takes broad challenges and, through independent professionally developed analysis, identifies and analyses options, and breaks them down into initiatives capable of implementation.  Identifies opportunities and proposes solutions to improve internal processes, services, and structures to support functional strategies.
- Uses advanced analytical and problem-solving techniques to resolve a wide range of non-standard problems.
- Works independently; receives minimal guidance. Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.

COMPLEXITY

- Identifies and devises solutions based on limited information and precedent. Uses evaluation and judgement to solve problems that are new to the organization and require a deep level of experience and strategic thought to create a solution.
- Enhances relationships and networks with senior internal/external partners who are not familiar with subject matter and often require persuasion. Uses data and analysis to demonstrate the value of a project, anticipating, and addressing objections and or concerns.
- Often effects change in broader functional area without direct exercise of command, using persuasion in situations where reaching agreement may be hindered by differing opinions, past practices, or experiences.

SCOPE AND IMPACT

- Challenges and problems are of a diverse scope with multiple moving parts, where developing a plan and viewing the whole picture is a significant challenge itself. Work is done independently and is reviewed at critical points.
- Owns the development and delivery of solutions, driving cross team and group efforts. Leads by example, taking responsibility for their own actions, acknowledging mistakes, and holding themselves accountable for achieving goals. Addresses and evaluates a diverse range of issues using innovative methods and proposing alternative approaches.
- Serves as a mentor to more junior level employees, providing coaching and guidance on difficult issues.
- Has significant operational impact across their function.

Responsibilities

• Perform complex sub-system analysis to define functional controls and hardware requirements

• Leverage physical (e.g., vehicle, bench) and virtual (e.g., models, simulation) to establish and test use cases and acceptance criteria for normal and degraded states of applicable sub-systems

• Lead system level validation activities for Diesel functions as defined by the PMT team

• Root cause all appliable sub-system related issues and translate solutions into new or revised requirements

• Create and maintain Features, Stories, and/or Change Requests to manage requirements and specifications of sub-systems using change management tools (e.g.,  Jira, etc.)

• Collaborate with Controls and Software Engineers to review software implementation ensuring compliance with requirements

• Review Owner’s Manual and Service Information related to the applicable sub-system

• Provide guidance and input for feature design verification plan by working with System and/or Feature Owners and Validation Engineers

• Maintain open requirements issue list and review, track, and report on progress and status

• Support advanced technical work projects that drive future features and vehicle enhancements

Additional Job Description

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Requirements  

• Experience with Diesel Calibration, Diesel Hardware, Diesel Controls or aftertreatment.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Mechanical or related engineering discipline

• Minimum of 6+ years of experience in the field of expertise

• Strong analytical problem-solving skills, including independent judgment and decision-making skills, where problems are very unusual and extremely difficult

• Demonstrated communication and inte