About the position
The Low Voltage Infrastructure Team within the Embedded Platform Systems & Infrastructure organization is focused on the development of systems and controls centered around on-vehicle low voltage power generation, energy storage, power management, distribution, and consumption on ICE, EV and PHEV vehicle platforms. There is no better time to join this domain as we evolve to the next generation of low voltage power strategy, innovation, and capability in current product VIP and the next generation on SDV2.0. As a Senior Systems Engineer - Low Voltage Feature Owner, your technical expertise in low voltage power consumption will be leveraged throughout the entire vehicle development life cycle, including requirements, design, testing, and problem resolution. You will own and define specific low voltage system features through understanding of customer use cases and expectations. You will drive GM's industry leadership of optimized low voltage consumption by defining low voltage energy consumption use cases, setting consumption targets, analyzing and driving reductions in power consumption for complex devices and features, and assessing competitor low voltage consumption performance.
Responsibilities
- Define low voltage energy use cases, lead low voltage system performance requirements development and decomposition, and set energy consumption targets for components and features.
- Define and own various low voltage system features, driving their implementation through Feature Technical Specification.
- Ensure traceability of system requirements and targets to hardware subsystem and ART solution requirements.
- Develop test requirements and ensure test case traceability to requirements and targets.
- Analyze and summarize status to energy consumption targets based on use cases.
- Analyze competitive performance with respect to power consumption reduction and optimization strategies.
- Drive action to the appropriate organizations to address gaps.
- Lead complex trade-off decisions, buy-offs, and escalation of power consumption issues with vehicle and product teams.
- Develop, maintain, and produce technical documentation and system specifications with tools such as DNG.
- Track changes and issues using Jira.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
- 5+ years of automotive engineering experience related to embedded controls, requirements development, architecture development, and/or systems engineering.
- Experience analyzing, estimating, and reducing low voltage power consumption of vehicle components, ECUs, and features.
- Ability to process a large amount of information flow, identify multiple parameters, interdependencies and inconsistencies to provide both high-level systems overview and deep domain expertise.
- General understanding of vehicle electrical architectures, communication protocols, and ECU wakeup strategies.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, including independent judgement and decision-making skills, where problems are very unusual and extremely difficult.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex projects and assignments with a high level of autonomy and accountability for results.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability of leading cross-functional teams, influencing without direct authority, and building relationships in difficult circumstances.
- Solid understanding of the major vehicle systems.
- Deep knowledge of Systems Engineering principles and a proven track record of successful implementation.
- Demonstrated proficiency in writing and comprehending software and hardware requirements and interfaces.
Nice-to-haves
- Master's degree in Engineering with a focus on Controls, Electrical, Mechanical, and/or Systems Engineering.
- Proficiency in Agile processes and built-in quality concepts such as Behavioral Driven Development.
- Experience executing production programs through launch.
- Proven expertise in low voltage power consumption analysis and reduction.
- Record of innovation in systems, subsystems, or feature design: patents, awards, or publications.
- Development experience with Software Defined Vehicle electrical architecture.
- Experience with requirements management tools (i.e. DOORs, DNG, Markdown, etc).
- Experience with change management tools (i.e. Jira, GIT, etc).
- Experience leveraging simulation environments and plant modeling for testing or requirements generation is a plus (e.g., MATLAB/Simulink, D-Space HIL, SIL, ETAS Inca, etc.).
Benefits
- Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and parental leave for mothers, fathers and adoptive parents.
- Healthcare (including a triple tax advantaged health savings account and wellness incentive), dental, vision and life insurance plans to cover you and your family.
- Company and matching contributions to 401K savings plan to help you save for retirement.
- Global recognition program for peers and leaders to recognize and be recognized for results and behaviors that reflect our company values.
- Tuition assistance and student loan refinancing.
- Discount on GM vehicles for you, your family and friends.
