Education:     

• Master of Science in a relevant technical domain (electrical engineering, IT).

Practical experience and skills:         

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in development in automotive safety-related products.
• Solid background in at least one field (electronics, embedded software, or system control strategy) and a good awareness of the others.
• Detailed knowledge and proven experience with ISO 26262, familiar with automotive development and quality process.
• Experience with system engineering approaches (requirements engineering management, functional analysis and allocation, architectural design, review, and testing).
• Experience with change, configuration, and problem resolution management.
• Solid knowledge of conducting safety analysis (D-FMEA, FTA, FMEDA, DFA, FFI).
• Knowledge in product development lifecycle and software development processes (e.g., IATF16949, A-SPICE, CMMI).
• Knowledge on Automotive Cyber Security is an advantageous.

Personal skills:                                  

• Good technical leadership, planning and organization skills.
• Good risk management skills, weighting development effort against added value and justifying safety with availability.
• Strong analytic and problem-solving skills, motivating team into problem-solving.
• Strong decision making when subjected to limited information, translated into assumptions to be verified and communicated.
• Communication skills forwards customers, suppliers, and development team.
• High degree of personal integrity and confidence.

Languages:                                       

• Good written and spoken English, German is a plus.