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Every role contributes to that mission whether you’re engineering, driving sales, improving production, or supporting our customers.\nWhat You’ll Do\nAs a Lead Engineer within our Advanced Engineering & Concepts team, you'll play a key role in shaping the next generation of sustainable transport solutions. Working within the Systems Engineering Design Team, you'll be responsible for integrating complex vehicle systems, driving requirements management activities, and supporting the development of innovative electric vehicle technologies.\nThis role combines systems engineering, requirements analysis, model-based engineering techniques and emerging AI-enabled tools to support the design and validation of future vehicle platforms. You'll collaborate with suppliers, engineering specialists and key stakeholders to ensure technical requirements are defined, managed and successfully delivered throughout the product development lifecycle.\nWhat We’re Looking For\nWe're seeking an experienced systems engineer with a strong technical background and a passion for solving complex engineering challenges. You'll be comfortable working across mechanical, electrical and software disciplines and have experience applying Systems Engineering principles in a product development environment.\nYou will have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, experience managing requirements throughout the engineering lifecycle, and the ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams. 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