Senior Electrical Hardware Engineer - ECU Requirements & Specifications

About the role

This role is categorized as hybrid. You are expected to report to Warren, MI at least three times a week.

Responsibilities

• Perform technical requirements update of existing and develop new ECU hardware electrical and functional interface definitions – including interactions with interfacing vehicle electronic devices and low-level software.
• Support semiconductor & microprocessor functional safety activities in developing requirements to meet safety manual use-case implementations.
• Standardize I/O interfaces in hardware requirements and drive commonization of components into ECU hardware designs.
• Solicit/identify/create new embedded controller requirement definitions from various GM stakeholders - such as vehicle, electrical/controller architecture, infra-structure software, low-level software, diagnostic and hardware design responsible teams.
• Support weekly requirement review and change control meetings that review/approve technical work performed in the update of existing and development of new requirements.
• Perform CTRS compilation and build activities from common and controller specific requirements in support of product team sourcing activities and post-sourcing design change documentation.
• Identify and implement mechanisms for traceability between internal/external CTRS requirements and their verification activities.
• Align requirements implementation with GM outsourced and build-to-print design activities - drive ECU, sub-component and/or circuit level design modifications where implementations fail to adhere to common requirements definition.
• Support requirement and specification definition and updates for ECU manufacturing, remanufacturing and plant/service programming implementations.
• Stay abreast of new technologies and competitor requirement documentation methods to drive refinement into GM’s requirement documentation and process.
• Domestic and/or international travel as required (minimal, 10% max).

Qualifications

• 5+ years engineering experience in product development, specifications or related activity.
• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or another related Engineering degree.
• Deep knowledge and practical use of a structured requirement management tool such as DOORS, DOORS Next-Gen, Jama, or Polarion, with the ability to apply contextual understanding to configure, adapt, or customize the DOORS Next-Gen tool for consistent management and deployment of complex requirements across multiple CTRS use cases, while maintaining commonality, reuse, and alignment across the CTRS portfolio.
• Strong knowledge of microcontrollers, memory technologies, vehicle serial data communications (Ethernet, CAN, LIN, SENT, SERDES), mechatronics and electrical architectures.
• Good knowledge of Semiconductor physics, structures, fundamentals, models and failure mechanisms.
• High level of understanding of hardware and low-level software interface designs and failure modes in electronic control units.
• Knowledge of GM product design and development cycles with previous experience in automotive product release and specification processes.
• Demonstrated leadership and project management of complex technical projects.
• Results-driven, proactive individual who takes initiative to solve problems involving complex system interactions.
• Superior interpersonal skills with ability to collaborate effectively while providing technical leadership and mentorship across diverse teams.
• DFSS Black Belt Certification.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years engineering experience in product development, specifications or related activity.
• Master of Science in Engineering or related field.
• Deep knowledge of safety critical embedded controls with at least one automotive subsystem or experience with a complex safety system in other industries.
• Experience with developing and/or specifying technical requirements for ECU circuit level designs and product development/analysis/validation with safety critical systems or ECUs.
• Experience applying functional safety standards (ISO 26262, IEC 61508, IEC 62304, DO-178C) to develop and specify hardware and low-level software safety requirements for automotive ECUs and embedded control systems.
• Experience with Electric Vehicle (EV) electrical/electronic architectures and defining ECU hardware and low-level software requirements for high-voltage propulsion, battery management, and charging/control systems.
• Familiarity to develop ECU hardware interface specifications into robust and maintainable C-language prototypes for HWIO and low-level software implementations.