Quality Function Manager – Electrical Architecture, Diagnostic Strategy and Functional Safety

About the role

The Quality Function Manager for Electrical Architecture, Diagnostic Strategy and Functional Safety is responsible for driving E/E Quality performance and ensuring design integrity across the vehicle electrical architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead proactive analysis of customer claims, warranty data, diagnostic reports, plant defects, launch issues, and connected-vehicle feedback to identify electrical architecture, diagnostic, and system-behavior risk patterns.
• Ensure design integrity for electrical architecture, diagnostic strategy, and functional safety by verifying that standards, engineering rules, release processes, safety work-product expectations, diagnostic requirements, quality checkpoints, and expected deliverables are consistently applied and achieved.
• Work closely with Engineering teams to review architecture, diagnostic, and functional safety alternatives, challenge technical assumptions, compare options from a quality, robustness, serviceability, safety, and customer-impact perspective, and support the selection of the most appropriate technical solution.
• Verify the completion and robustness of DFMEA, System FMEA, design reviews, diagnostic specifications, validation evidence, detection plans, risk assessments, safety work products, Lessons Learned deployment, and quality-gate evidence.
• Release a structured quality report at each project milestone, summarizing expected deliverables, completion status, risk assessment, open gaps, and recovery plans when deliverables are not achieved.
• Drive root-cause analysis across architecture, software, hardware, network communication, diagnostics, functional safety, and service processes.
• Define and assess diagnostic strategy effectiveness, including DTC definition, failure detection thresholds, fault isolation, service procedures, guided diagnostics, service documentation, validation evidence, and repair-cost optimization.
• Support functional safety quality governance by verifying that safety requirements, failure reactions, safe states, degraded modes, traceability, verification evidence, and review milestones are completed according to the defined process.
• Manage technical risks, deviations, missed deliverables, and open quality points through clear recovery plans, action ownership, escalation, governance, and timely closure.
• Capitalize Lessons Learned and Best Practices into architecture standards, diagnostic rules, process checklists, validation criteria, functional safety audit criteria, deliverable expectations, and quality gates.
• Support launch readiness by reviewing architecture maturity, diagnostic readiness, software/hardware integration, plant detection, service readiness, functional safety evidence, and field-monitoring strategy.
• Lead technical reviews with Systems Engineering, Electrical Architecture, Diagnostics, Functional Safety, Software, Hardware, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality, Technical Centers, Customer Care, and Service Engineering.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineer, Computer Science, or related field
• A minimum of 8 years of engineering experience
• Strong automotive E/E systems background, preferably with experience in electrical architecture, diagnostics, functional safety, vehicle networks, or system integration
• Solid understanding of E/E architecture development, diagnostic strategy, embedded systems behavior, network communication, validation, and vehicle integration constraints
• Good knowledge of quality methods and deliverables, including DFMEA, System FMEA, DVP&R, APQP, risk management, problem solving, Lessons Learned, and launch readiness
• Familiarity with functional safety principles, safety requirements, failure modes, failure reactions, safe states, traceability, and verification evidence
• Ability to assess design integrity by verifying standards compliance, process adherence, deliverable maturity, review evidence, diagnostic readiness, safety work-product completeness, field feedback integration, and cross-functional action closure
• Experience working with Systems Engineering, Software, Hardware, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality, Technical Centers, Customer Care, and Service Engineering
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office tools and ability to work with STLA tools such as PLM, Quantic, Lessons Learned, Bulletin, Teamcenter, and Enovia
• Project management capability, including prioritization, governance, escalation, action-plan tracking, and decision preparation