Product Engineering Manager

Basic Function
The Engineering Manager leads the Engineering organization with clear ownership for sensor product architecture, requirement flow-down, and system integration. This role provides daily leadership, technical direction, resource planning, and ensures high-quality engineering execution across all customer programs.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities
1) Engineering Leadership & People Management
- Lead, mentor, and performance-manage a team of systems and development engineers.
- Establish engineering standards, methods, and governance for requirements, sensor architecture, interfaces, and system verification.
- Ensure effective workload planning, staffing, hiring, and skill development.
- Drive continuous improvement, structured problem-solving, and technical excellence.

2) Ownership of Systems Engineering Discipline
- Own the system V-model, system specification, and requirements traceability from RFQ through SOP.
- Guide the team in decomposing system requirements into HW/SW/Mechanical interfaces.
- Oversee system-level risk assessments, design reviews, and engineering documentation.

3) Product Architecture Governance
- Work and collaborate with the global Engineering teams on the definition and updating of the sensor product architecture and, maintain, and communicate architecture baselines across the product life cycle.
- Ensure architecture decisions are implemented across  the various Engineering disciplines, and through to the Supply chain.
- Align architecture to performance, safety, cost, manufacturability, and timing objectives.

4) Functional Safety & Quality Responsibilities
- Oversee creation of safety concepts (TSC) and safety analyses (FTA, FMEDA, CCA) per ISO 26262.
- Maintain alignment between system safety goals, DFMEA, and verification strategy.
- Champion adherence to ASPICE/IATF-relevant engineering process requirements.

5) Cross‑Functional Collaboration & Customer Interaction
- Act as engineering interface to customers on systems architecture, specifications, technical discussions, and issue resolution.
- Communicate engineering status, decisions, and risks to leadership and program management.
- Collaborate tightly with HW, SW, Mechanical design, Test, PMO, and Manufacturing Engineering.

Qualification Requirements

- Fluency in English (written and spoken) is essential for collaboration with global teams
- Bachelor’s/Master’s in Engineering; advanced degree preferred.
- 8–12+ years systems engineering experience; 3–6+ years engineering leadership.
- Strong cross-domain understanding (HW, SW, mechanical design, system architecture, functional safety).

Skills & Competencies
- Strong leadership presence, prioritization ability, and decision-making

- Experience in automotive sensing (Position, Speed, Steering) is an advantage
- Proficient in ISO 26262, DFMEA, requirements management, change management

- Experience and Prototype validation DVP/PVP
- Tools: Polarion, APIS IQ RM, standard SE toolchains.

Success Metrics
- Quality of system architecture and specifications.
- On-time delivery of engineering and project milestones.
- Requirements coverage & traceability performance.
- Audit/safety assessment results.
- Team capability, retention, and engagement.

Travel
- Occasional travel to customers, suppliers, and international Bourns sites.