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.