Senior AD/ADAS Market Function Owner

Job Responsibilities:

• Program management of US ADAS Beta Programs:
• Overall oversight of beta program timeline, deliverables, contingencies, and stakeholders. Tracking & communication of status of above.
• Software deployment: Engagement of stakeholders/counterparts on software release, on demand functions, MB app, variant coding, and OTA to enable technical deployment of beta software on select vehicles attributed to beta participants.
• Data insights: Clear goal outline and engagement of data stream and analytics owners to deliver desired metrics. Transformation and communication of metrics for top management audience.
• Customer enrollment, engagement, and training: Collaborate with stakeholders at MBAG & MBUSA to identify target participants, and invite them to the program. Communication with participants to support their satisfaction and give them voice. Create training program to ensure participants are aware of what the beta function can and cannot do.
• USA and Canadian-market focused testing of Automated Driving and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems:
• Systematically test and evaluate the performance of AD/ADAS systems, with a focus on US-market specific conditions. Collect measurement data to identify, analyze, and document potential issues found during testing. Utilize experience and deep understanding of local market expectations to prioritize and escalate local market defects fixes or improvements independently.
• Review all system faults with first level analysis for root cause and defect routing. Track open faults, provide support to functional owners for further fault analysis, and defect fix confirmation.
• Summarize faults and findings into a release report, and submit to responsible departments in a systematic and timely manner. Provide Release Recommendation reports as required, based on system performance in the local market.
• USA and Canadian-market technical input for all SAE Level-2 and Level-3 at MBRDNA, including:
• Provide technical support and consulting for various regulatory and certification topics.
• An understanding of competitive AD/ADAS systems in the US-market, including system attributes, system performance, and driver feedback and monitoring performance. Utilize this knowledge to review and judge Mercedes-Benz product performance objectively and subjectively compared to competitive systems, and provide feedback and actionable improvements to development departments.
• Create component and system performance requirements based on unique USA market road and infrastructure conditions, traffic conditions, driver behaviors, or customer expectations.
• Alignment of system and vehicle level requirements with global function owner team and third party system development partners.
• Ability to communicate with executive leadership on all topics above and the ability to influence the product and testing direction based on this expert knowledge.
• Communication and Reporting:
• Keep regular communication with internal and external departments in order to stay informed on regularly shifting timelines related to all previously mentioned tasks.
• Support other engineering teams as needed and to stay informed of feature development, issues, and release status for AD/ADAS systems.
• Other responsibilities:
• Develop testing strategies and planning for ADAS testing projects, test routes, test methods, and reporting.
• Establish performance metrics based on high-level strategic goals relating to key ADAS testing deliverables and track on a recurring basis.
• Support other engineering teams with vehicle testing and system knowledge when requested.
• Actively