We are looking for an experienced Lead Systems Engineer to lead the system engineering function across our automotive electronics product portfolio, including Battery Management Systems, On-board/Off-board Chargers, Motor Controller Units, TCU, DC-DC Converters, and Vehicle Control Units.
The candidate will own system-level engineering deliverables throughout the product development lifecycle, from customer requirement analysis and system architecture definition to implementation, integration, verification, validation, and production release.
The role requires strong expertise in automotive system architecture, requirements engineering, functional decomposition, interface management, system modeling, risk analysis, and V-model-based development. The candidate will work closely with customer system and vehicle architects, hardware and software engineering teams, functional safety, testing and validation, quality, and project management teams to ensure that product requirements are complete, traceable, technically feasible, and verifiable.
The candidate will also be responsible for establishing and improving system engineering processes, mentoring the system engineering team, and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality system engineering artifacts across projects.
Responsibilities- Work closely with (customers') system and vehicle architects to understand and derive system requirements
- Define functional requirements, technical requirements, robustness and reliability requirements for the product
- Conduct systems- failure modes and effects analysis (SFMEA) and design-failure modes and effects analysis (DFMEA)
- Modeling system level and vehicle level use cases and maintaining version controlled summary of traceability
- Deriving system state and mode flow machine and behavior of the product and its effect on vehicle for each state and mode
- Preparing logical architecture and technical architecture with component owners ensuring internal alignment among each component owners
- Preparing signal interface specifications for each derived signals interacting between the logical and physical components
- Hands on with implementing V-cycle
- Good knowledge on safety standards ISO-26262 and cybersecurity standards
- Review and communicate the requirements with HW teams, SW teams, test teams, customers.
- Mentor, hire, and train the system engineers.
- Bachelors or Masters in electronic or similar engineering with 10+ years of experience.
- Minimum hands on experience of system engineering for 3 products from requirement phase to production.
- Good understanding of automotive architecture, electrical and electronic systems within automotive electric vehicles- EVs and HEVs
- Basic know how on battery management systems
- Hands on with any automotive function development
- Good understanding on interfaces like CAN, LIN, SPI, I2C, Microcontroller architectures, DC-DC converters, electronic control units, relay drivers, solid state relays/ PDU, automotive ethernet, UDS diagnostics protocol, OBD, etc
- Team player and good at cross functional work abilities
- Capable of defining the process of handling the requirements with the help of project management and technical management
- Hands on with DOORs or any other requirement management tools
- Awareness on ISO26262 functional safety and cyber security ISO21434 implementation.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in electronic engineering or a similar engineering discipline
- 10+ years of professional experience
- Hands-on systems engineering experience for at least three products from requirements through production
- Understanding of automotive architecture and electrical/electronic systems for EVs and HEVs
- Basic knowledge of battery management systems
- Hands-on experience with automotive function development
- Understanding of CAN, LIN, SPI, I2C, microcontroller architectures, DC-DC converters, ECUs, relay drivers, solid-state relays, PDUs, automotive Ethernet, UDS, and OBD
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally as a team player
- Ability to define requirements-handling processes with project and technical management
- Hands-on experience with DOORS or another requirements management tool
- Awareness of ISO 26262 functional safety implementation
- Awareness of ISO 21434 cybersecurity implementation
What We Do
Maxwell is raising the bar in the energy and automobile industry with world-class engineering and quality standards. We design, manufacture, and supply advanced electronics to OEMs building electric vehicles and Li-Ion batteries. Battery Management System (BMS) is our flagship product offering. All our team members follow a clear vision of accelerating the earth's transition to an all-electric future. We know where our mission fits within this process. We're pumped to leverage our collective expertise in batteries to envision a world where batteries are safer, last longer, perform better, and empower a more sustainable future for our future generations.
