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Job Description
Level 3: ADV (Advanced / Senior Engineer, 5–8 Years Experience)
Focus: Technical leadership, system-level ownership, and risk management.
Responsibilities
Focus: Technical leadership, system-level ownership, and risk management.
Responsibilities
- Lead the restraint system design and release across one or more vehicle programs
- Define system architecture, design strategy, and technical requirements for airbags and seat belts
- Own system-level targets for safety performance, regulatory compliance, cost, weight, and quality
- Lead design reviews, gate reviews, and technical risk assessments with leadership and customers
- Drive root cause analysis and corrective actions for field, warranty, and launch issues (8D, DFMEA updates)
- Lead supplier technical engagement, including sourcing support, development, and PPAP approval
- Coordinate with Crash Safety, CAE, and Vehicle Integration to align restraint performance with crash and rating requirements
- Ensure compliance with global regulations and internal design standards
- Mentor and coach MID and junior engineers; help develop team capability
- Identify innovation opportunities, such as new technologies, cost reduction, and lightweighting
- Support or lead lessons-learned and best-practice updates
- 5–8 years of experience in automotive restraint systems design and release
- Proven record of taking products from concept to SOP
- Deep expertise in restraint components, system integration, and validation
- Strong command of FMVSS/ECE/NCAP requirements and crash test interpretation
- Demonstrated leadership, supplier management, and cross-functional influence
- Ability to make sound technical decisions under timing and cost pressure
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Key Skills
sourcing support
restraint systems design and release
technical requirements for airbags and seat belts
Crash Safety CAE
crash test interpretation
DFMEA updates
system architecture design
PPAP approval
supplier technical engagement
system integration and validation
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