Responsibilities:
Development & Series Support
- Lead development and series support for E/E components in Mercedes-Benz passenger cars, ensuring compliance with legal regulations, production requirements, and project objectives (function, quality, weight, and cost).
- Create and maintain component requirement specifications, integrate safety requirements, and contribute to concept and vehicle specifications.
- Develop and manage detailed project schedules, including component and software release versions, aligned with vehicle-level milestones in coordination with Purchase, Logistics, Costing, and Quality.
- Coordinate with E/E system partners regarding system integration of component parts.
Stakeholder & Supplier Management
- Act as the primary contact for components within the carline project, delegating to E/E system partners as needed.
- Support end-to-end supplier management (in-house and purchased parts), including EVS for localized ranges, leading supplier control at E-level and Q-level for development-related issues.
- Create and coordinate engineering change requests with internal and external stakeholders.
Testing & Diagnostics
- Define test concepts and specifications, coordinating component-level testing activities at Mercedes-Benz.
- Manage ECU defect handling and report component-specific topics in carline committees and stakeholder forums.
- Release components and coordinate ECU diagnostics in plant, aftersales, and proto-build environments.
- Generate and release ECU coding or coordinate system-level coding activities.
- Provide and manage test samples (vehicle, boards, S-HIL, C-HIL, etc.) and coordinate plant logistics activities post blank-release.
