Braking Systems Engineering Advisor
DESCRIPTION**
We are looking for a talented Braking Systems Engineering Advisor to join our team specializing in Engineering in Troy, MI.
**In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:**
+ Facilitating Quality Decisions: By gathering input from various stakeholders, you’ll ensure that product decisions are well-informed and lead to high-quality outcomes.
+ Expert Decision-Making: Your systems knowledge will help you make crucial decisions regarding technology integration, design, and risk trade-offs, enhancing product functionality.
+ Process Improvement: You’ll create, manage, and improve processes like ESW and iDFMEA, and use specialized tools to support high-quality decision-making.
+ Problem Resolution Leadership: You’ll lead the resolution of complex system issues, often with significant global business impact, providing clarity in ambiguous situations.
+ Work Process Development: By leading the development and improvement of work processes across functions, you’ll drive efficiency and effectiveness within the global business unit.
+ Team Coordination: You’ll coordinate and direct technical project teams, ensuring that projects are completed successfully and on time.
+ Specialist Expertise: As a recognized expert, you’ll develop local talent and provide guidance across a site or global business unit, enhancing overall team capability.
+ Mentorship and Collaboration: You’ll coach and mentor other engineers and project managers, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment.
**RESPONSIBILITIES**
**To be successful in this role you will need the following:**
+ Product Failure Mode Avoidance: Develop a keen eye for identifying potential failure modes and their causes. This involves understanding interfaces, functions, and control factors to enhance product reliability.
+ Product Function Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis: Utilize computational tools to predict and analyze product capabilities. Your insights will be crucial in making informed design decisions.
+ Product Interface Management and Integration: Manage and analyze system interfaces to ensure they meet requirements. Create integration plans to streamline the process of diagnosing and correcting issues.
+ Product Problem Solving: Implement a structured problem-solving approach to protect customers and prevent recurrence. Focus on data-driven solutions and identifying root causes.
+ Product Verification and Validation Management: Develop comprehensive validation plans to manage product risk. Evaluate test results to verify product capabilities and guide project scope.
+ System Requirements Engineering: Translate stakeholder needs into verifiable requirements. Track these requirements throughout the lifecycle and assess the impact of changes on project scope and resources.
+ Systems Thinking: Define and analyze the system of interest, understanding its context and interactions. Use models and methods to predict behavior and devise modifications for desired outcomes.
+ Design and Application of Open/Closed Loop Controls: Specify and understand control system architectures and their interactions with hardware and software to achieve desired system states.
**Education, Licenses, Certifications:**
+ College, university, or equivalent Bachelor's degree in Engineering or appropriate STEM field is required.
+ Post-graduate (Master's) degree relevant to this discipline area may be required for select roles.
+ This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.
**Experience:**
+ Demonstrated success having worked in a Technical Specialist/Specialist Engineering role on lower complexity product development activities, translating customer needs and negotiating into product development plans, technical profiles and/or product specifications with a proven track record of successful product decisions.
**QUALIFICATIONS**
**Overview**
This position will be part of the Advanced Engineering & Innovation Group within the Cummins Drivetrain & Braking System division. The primary focus will be on leading systems engineering activities for the development and application of Electronic Braking Systems used on Commercial Vehicle Braking Systems.
**Key Responsibilities:**
+ Leads Systems Engineering for Electronic Braking Systems. This will include capture stakeholder requirements (regulatory, customer and internal), and translate it into verifiable requirements for Systems, Sub-systems, and mechatronic work products, to which designs are developed.
+ Identifies system components and their influencing parameters such as sensor signals in close cooperation with system architects.
+ Leads system identification activity and work with Controls Engineers to setup system simulation models for Anti-Lock Braking System (ABS), Electronic Stability Control (ESC), Anti-Slip Regulation (ASR), Hill Assist, brake distribution, and other features from EBS (Electronic Stability System)
+ Leads system risk assessment activities such as Design Failure Mode & Effect Analysis (DFMEA), Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment (HARA), etc.
+ Leads braking system vehicle System Integration
+ Lead internal and customer vehicle test validation in test tracks.
+ Leads and mentor less experience engineers.
**Requirements:**
+ Bachelor’s Degree in Mechatronics, Mechanical, Electrical, or any related engineering field. Master’s Degree in Engineering is highly desired.
+ 15+ years of experience working with Braking Systems, including ABS and EBS.
+ Previous experience as a Principal Engineer or Chief Engineer.
+ Strong understanding of ABS, ESC/ESP, Traction Control System / Anti-Slip Regulation (TCS/ASR), Hill Assist, brake distribution, and other features of EBS (Electronic Braking System)
+ Good knowledge of Pneumatic and Electro-Pneumatic Valves, braking system performance, and its influence in vehicle dynamics behavior.
+ Solid prior working experience as a systems engineer, including utilization of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools for requirements creation and management (e.g. Polarion, Doors or PTC Integrity).
+ Experience with vehicle network topology (CAN, LIN, ethernet, etc) and Electrical & Electronic (E&E) architecture.
+ Good knowledge in sensor, signal processing and data analysis.
+ Demonstrated capability of independent development of a system both in a prototype stage, as well as for production.
**Job** Engineering
**Organization** Cummins Inc.
**Role Category** Hybrid
**Job Type** Exempt - Experienced
**Min Salary** $121600
**Max Salary** $182400
**ReqID** 2401942
**Relocation Package** No
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