Sr. System Engineer
Hitachi
- Farmington Hills, MI
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Develop product development plans with emphasis on managing timing, cost, complexity, and risk.
- Perform requirement sorting to identify pure software and pure hardware requirements and disseminate to appropriate teams.
- Interface with customers to clarify requirements and gain detailed knowledge about system operation.
- Construct, deliver and maintain system block diagrams and system DFMEAs.
- Develop wiring diagrams to illustrate external system interfaces.
- Develop concepts and specifications for environmental and EMC verification and validation testing.
- Maintain complete traceability between requirements, implementation, and test results.
- Lead effort and deliver hardware/software interface specifications.
- Lead effort and deliver functional control algorithms with on-line and off-line diagnostic methods.
- Lead effort in root cause analysis and issue resolution during all development phases.
- Work with functional safety teams to iterate the hardware and software requirements as necessary.
- Create and maintain user manual and overall application engineering report for product being developed.
- Participate in all hardware and software design reviews ensuring smooth implementation of requirements.
- Handling of audits such as A-Spice assessments.
- Comply with the designated ISO / TS 16949 responsibilities, Health & Safety (H&S) rules and practices.
- Perform any other assignments from time-to-time as management so directs.
- Treat everyone with dignity, trust, and respect.
- Creative and self-motivated with the ability to understand and divide a vision into prioritized tasks.
- Ability to resolve complex issues in creative, efficient, and effective ways.
- Provide the customer and company-wide perspective to detailed technical decisions.
- Ability to work on challenging assignments with aggressive schedules.
- Experience in hardware and software system integration, such as integration of new sensors, actuators.
- Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in industrial test and validation environment.
- Experience in data collection and statistical data analysis.
- Experience in requirements gathering and writing specifications as they relate to test functionality.
- English: Fluent in written and verbal communication.
- Knowledge and experience with analog, digital, and power electronic circuits.
- Knowledge of electric motors and associated control topologies and hardware configurations.
- Communication protocols (CAN, RS-232, TCP/IP, USB, SENT, Ethernet)
- Ability to read and make electrical schematics, and engineering drawings.
- Perform circuit analysis and simulation using LTSpice or similar SPICE based tools.
- Perform control system modeling and simulation using Matlab/Simulink.