We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.
As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.
When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.
Job Description:
- Ensure feasibility of the of the system's design according to the quality/cost/schedule objectives of the core techno project.
- Ensure standardization and maximize the reuse of functions and components/parts for optimize the time to market and the development cost.
- Oversee and coordinate activities of the multiple referents from dedicated disciplines (analyst engineers, system designers, components leaders)
- Organize and conduct the main system technical reviews (System Requirements Review, Systems Functional Review, Preliminary Design Review, …).
- Organize and control the system architecture activities and results through the PLM tools and manage her/his System lifecycle.
- Monitor and control the progressive achievement of the desired system product through architectural views and data.
- Provide a System level technical status to the project manager.
Technical Skills:
- Mastering Functional Architectures
- Master of connected services related to the automobile (Authentication, profile, activation, xcall, ....)
- Ability to understand high-level functional needs to detach functional groups from a vehicle.
- Ability to break down client needs into functional groups
- Ability to understand safety requirements in a functional vehicle architecture
- Ability to apply editorial rigor in English
- Ability to enforce configuration management to all system actors and managers
- Ability to explain and impose configuration management on projects
- Knowledge of the document structure associated with the design of a complex system based on operational safety and traceability requirements
- Knowledge of vehicle functions including complex mechanical functions such as engines, gearboxes, braking systems, ADAS ... etc., would be an advantage.
- Knowledge of the modeling of electronic architecture using a system engineering tool would be a plus.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5 years in functional/system design in multidisciplinary environment
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.
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Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.
Skills Required
- Five years of experience in functional or systems design within a multidisciplinary environment.
- Mastery of functional architectures.
- Knowledge of connected automotive services, including authentication, profiles, activation, and xcall.
- Ability to translate high-level client needs into vehicle functional groups.
- Ability to understand safety requirements in functional vehicle architecture.
- Strong written English and editorial rigor.
- Ability to enforce configuration management across project teams.
- Knowledge of documentation structures for complex systems requiring operational safety and traceability.
- Knowledge of vehicle functions such as engines, gearboxes, braking systems, and ADAS.
- Knowledge of electronic architecture modeling using a systems engineering tool.
What We Do
ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering consulting company that provides innovative solutions for engineering, IT, and product development projects across the product life cycle. For decades, ALTEN Technology USA has been helping clients develop products that are changing the world, whether by shaping the future of space exploration, saving lives with medical devices that set new standards of care or creating the fully autonomous electric taxi of tomorrow. The company provides support across industries including aerospace, defense, MedTech and life sciences, unmanned systems and robotics, automotive OEM and tier 1 suppliers, commercial vehicles, electric vehicles, energy and environment, rail, and more.
Why Work With Us
Potential clients in the industries we serve, Professionals in the Industries, and Potential employees within New Product Development, Engineering Services, Sustaining Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Embedded Electronics Engineering, Software Engineering and IT, Mechanical Engineering, and Systems Engineering.
