Product Design Architect - Heavy Duty Trucks

Stefanini Group is seeking an experienced Product Design Architect for a fixed-duration engineering pre-study focused on future heavy-duty truck applications in Greensboro, NC (onsite).

Responsibilities

As a vehicle architecture consultant, you will lead an engineering pre-study to assess how an existing advanced vehicle architecture can be optimized, reused, and scaled across conventional and cab-over truck platforms. Your work will reduce technical uncertainty, development complexity, cost, and time to market while building on a proven vehicle-development baseline.

• Assess the application of an existing vehicle architecture to alternative conventional truck configurations.
• Identify reuse, carry-over, delta-part, and system-impact opportunities for a proposed base vehicle specification.
• Evaluate the effects of vehicle-configuration changes on packaging, wheelbase, fuel efficiency, payload, maneuverability, and relevant vehicle features.
• Define and compare longer-term base-vehicle configurations, then recommend a scalable architecture and implementation path.
• Assess the feasibility of applying the architecture to cab-over truck platforms, including platform suitability, auxiliary systems, structural implications, and feature impacts.
• Develop sensor-integration concepts and field-of-view assessments using established sensor locations where applicable.
• Produce traceable analyses, assumptions, risks, recommendations, and engineering-alignment material for leadership decision-making.
• Collaborate with cross-functional platform, systems, and vehicle-engineering stakeholders while working independently within defined interfaces.

Deliverables

• A conventional-platform impact assessment covering affected parts, systems, reuse assumptions, and vehicle-performance implications.
• A recommended future base-vehicle configuration and architecture strategy.
• A cab-over platform feasibility assessment covering carry-over opportunities, packaging, sensor installation, structural changes, and open engineering questions.
• Sensor field-of-view analysis and installation concepts.
• A final strategic report with a recommended path forward, key dependencies, risks, cost and complexity considerations, and time-to-market opportunities.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant experience in heavy-duty vehicle architecture, systems engineering, or whole-vehicle integration.
• Strong understanding of both conventional and cab-over truck platforms.
• Experience with architecture reuse, carry-over planning, feature-impact analysis, and delta-part assessment.
• Practical knowledge of vehicle packaging, sensor placement, field-of-view analysis, and structural integration.
• Ability to translate technical analysis into clear recommendations on cost, complexity, risk, and delivery timing.
• Excellent stakeholder-management and communication skills, with the ability to create clear, evidence-based decision material.
• Relevant engineering degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Lead the development of a complete solution and the roadmap for a dedicated range of products.
• Assume oversight of the product range, including sale strategy, manufacturing strategy, platform strategy, service, and aftermarket strategy in product development and technical definition.
• Serve as a specialist in Product Architecture, typically obtained through education and work experience.
• Lead complex group tasks/projects and actively develop team members.
• Act as a role model for cutting-edge thinking and contribute to lifelong learning within the organization as a master trainer, coach, and/or mentor.
• Demonstrate a solid T-shaped profile with definable expert knowledge within a broad-based, all-round toolkit.
• Demonstrable influence within the company network.
• Clear articulation of how you create value beyond your part of the organization.

Assignment Details

This is a fixed-duration consulting assignment expected to run for approximately four months. The successful consultant will work with a cross-functional engineering network and provide an independent assessment before a potential future development program.

About Stefanini Group

The Stefanini Group is a global provider of offshore, onshore, and nearshore outsourcing, IT digital consulting, systems integration, application, and strategic staffing services to Fortune 1000 enterprises. With a presence in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, Stefanini serves over four hundred clients across industries such as financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, chemical services, technology, public sector, and utilities. Stefanini is a CMM Level 5 company.

Work Location: 7900 National Service Road, Greensboro, NC 27409 (Onsite)