Lead Systems Engineer Battery

American Battery Solutions - Orion charter Township, MI

Full-time - Mid Level

Orion charter Township, MI

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

The Lead Systems Engineer Battery serves as the primary technical resource for battery-related projects, overseeing all system engineering activities and deliverables. This role involves leading technical discussions, ensuring product architecture compliance, and collaborating with various teams including engineering design, validation, and business development to address key technical issues.

Responsibilities

• Works as the main technical interface for customer projects and their applications.
• Leads a team of system engineering and requirement engineering resources to deliver on a project.
• Listens to the voice of the customer and translates it into system requirements.
• Drives a compliance matrix of customer requirements to an agreed baseline.
• Develop system-level architecture.
• Compile and decompose system-level requirements.
• Develops system-level DFMEA and integrates it with requirements and verification plans.
• Leads the development of system requirements, architecture, and system concept sizing.
• Maintains changes to requirements, and their impact analysis, and helps track scope creep.
• Maintains system requirements throughout the product life cycle.
• Identifies and drives cross-functional interface evaluations and any constraints.
• Implements system optimization with design for excellence evaluation.
• Helps to support business development with an evaluation of new opportunities.
• Strongly supports other key functional engineering groups with their tasks (ME, EE, SW, BMS).
• Supports functional safety, security, and reliability engineering analysis.
• Helps support decomposition of DFMEA into sub-system DFMEA and PFMEA.
• Helps develop system inspection requirements for end-of-line testing, from quality control plan.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Predictable and reliable attendance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Systems Engineering (or equivalent).
• Minimum of five (5) years of engineering experience in systems engineering discipline on battery packs or battery management system projects.
• Broad engineering knowledge in Mechanical, Electrical, Software, and Industrial engineering with a strong focus on at least one discipline.
• Basic understanding of architecture modeling and requirements management tools.
• Strong communication skills with a high level of integrity.
• Ability to think creatively while staying focused on the bigger picture.
• Experience with Microsoft office tools (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• Experience generating DFMEA, PFMEA, DFM/DFA, and DVP&R.
• Experience using a formal requirement management tool.
• Ability to travel and work flexible hours as needed (less than 10% travel on average).
• Systematic problem solver with an analytical mindset.
• Strong interpersonal communication, listening, and technical writing skills.
• Ability to organize and plan effectively with project teams.
• Hands-on experience with high and low-voltage power and communication systems.
• Basic lab/shop skills (multimeter, power tools, etc.).
• Lead projects with a commitment to engineering excellence.
• Willing to help others and promote a positive culture.

Nice-to-haves

• Master's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Systems Engineering (or equivalent).
• Minimum of seven (7) years of engineering experience in systems engineering discipline on battery packs or battery management system projects.
• Product experience with Li-Ion batteries, battery pack design, electric vehicles, power systems, alternative energy systems, electronic control units (ECUs), battery management systems (BMS), MEMS, and sensors.
• Experience in tools for requirement engineering management (ex. Jama), CAD/CAE (ex. SolidWorks), design of experiments and statistical analysis of data (ex: Minitab), system modeling (ex: MATLAB, Simulink/Simscape), and diagnostic communication tools and protocols; (ex. Vector CANoe; CAN; LIN; GPI/O).
• Functional safety and cybersecurity experience.
• Vehicle architectures including automotive, aerospace, rail, controls, and other motive fields.

Benefits

• Paid time off includes 4 weeks, 15 holidays, and parental leave.
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) offerings.
• Company provided 401K savings plan with immediately vested matching contributions to help you save for retirement.
• Voluntary benefits offerings.
• Tuition assistance.
• Employee Referral Program.
• Employee development and career growth opportunities.