Vehicle Control and Upfit Engineer

Daimler Truck North America•Portland, OR

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Inside the Role Vocational and Upfit vehicle applications are a fast growing segment where the customers need a variety of flexible functionalities that can be implemented quickly. In this role, you will have the unique chance to drive and lead this growing topic in a new team in the Vehicle Controls and Upfit department, with a high focus on in-house software development for highly customized and flexible functions for the vocational and upfitter applications. This role will combine a high focus on upfitter specific requirements, while leveraging the global software development platforms for an efficient implementation and reusability through the different international business units of Daimler Trucks. If you are passionate about working in a customer-centric team with advanced in-house software development capabilities, look no further, this is the role for you!

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in electrical or software engineering from an accredited university/college with 2-4 years of experience, or 6 years in lieu of degree, is required.
Previous experience in working in a global development organization with teams and colleagues across the world
Experience working with Software development tools, methods and processes.
Excellent understanding and demonstrated experience with the North American vocational truck customer expectations, in particular Truck Equipment Manufacturers
Demonstrated experience working with Service, Manufacturing, Vocational and IT engineering organizations, and the associated processes.
Basic understanding of Daimler Truck Model-based Software development processes, tools and methods
Experience with vehicle data bus, CAN communications, embedded controllers is required.
Experience leading and mentoring others in identifying/solving the root cause of complex problems is required
Excellent communication skills to interact with customers, market councils and other industry relevant forums.
Being able to work in a flexible work environment with shifting priorities.

Nice To Haves

Good experience working with Functional Safety (ISO26262) and CyberSecurity
Extensive knowledge and experience with Daimler Truck North America CHEC+/Quickfit environment
Commercial Driver’s License (CDL)

Responsibilities

With direct interactions with vocational and product strategy organizations, you define the Interface Design & Concept Development to implement complex vocational customer requests
Coordinate specific projects development requests (DR’s) from 47V, 47F and FCCC that has impact in VC&U, align with the team and create the implementation plan.
Plan and ensure the complete migration of existing features in CEEA+ to CEEAce projects
Interface with feature owners, system owners, SW model in VC&U and XMC component owner for the right SW implementation
Manage all current issues in XMC1.0 series, exchange with VC&U team the solution strategy and work with SW team and XMC component owner for the implementation and time planning.
Coordinate the service packs inputs, SW implementation and deployment to the field, working with SW model team, segment strategy and service team for the SW release announcement.
Lead the continuous improvement in the team, collecting weakness and opportunities areas to improve, in multiple aspects: process, product, collaboration and behavior.
Interface with HiL and Vehicle validation for final feature release.