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Today, we're looking for energetic people with the potential to perform and the ability to strengthen - and thrive in - the positive work environment we pride ourselves on.\nLocation: Canton, MI USA\nWhat we are looking for:\nYazaki is looking for an Engineer, Product Development - Systems Engineering to join the EI Team in Canton, MI. The Systems Engineer independently develops moderately complex automotive electronic systems and leads assigned features or subsystems throughout the development lifecycle. This role is responsible for requirements management, systems architecture, hardware and software interface development, requirements traceability, integration readiness, verification coordination, risk analysis, and technical issue resolution.\nThe scope of this role includes, but is not limited to, low-voltage and high-voltage power distribution, intelligent junction boxes, battery disconnect and interconnect products, charging interfaces, electronic control units (ECUs), zonal electronics, and high-speed data networks.\nWhat you will be doing:\nCompletes moderately complex assignments, identifies technical risks, and coordinates closure across disciplines.\nLeads requirements management, requirements decomposition, requirements allocation, traceability, and impact analysis for assigned scope.\nDevelops and evaluates architecture options and aligns interfaces across engineering disciplines.\nCoordinates integration and verification readiness and leads root-cause and recovery activities for assigned issues.\nReviews work products for technical quality, consistency, traceability, and process compliance.\nLeads selected technical discussions, presents recommendations, and secures alignment on decisions and actions.\nWork with customers and internal stakeholders to identify, analyze, clarify, document, and maintain product and system requirements, assumptions, constraints, and acceptance criteria.\nDecompose and allocate system requirements to hardware, software, mechanical, diagnostics, manufacturing, and validation disciplines.\nMaintain bidirectional traceability from stakeholder requirements through design, implementation, and verification evidence.\nDevelop system context, functional and logical architectures, interface definitions, operating scenarios, state behavior, data flows, and network topology.\nEvaluate customer specifications, standards, and regulations for impact on design, verification, and technical risk.\nManage baselines, technical changes, impact assessments, configuration status, review actions, and release readiness.\nCoordinate technical work across engineering, validation, manufacturing, quality, project management, safety, cybersecurity, and suppliers.\nPrepare Automotive SPICE system engineering work products and objective evidence.\nApply Automotive SPICE SYS.1 through SYS.5 practices and support ISO 26262 safety concepts, safety analyses, and verification evidence.\nDefine system-level verification criteria and support integration, verification, validation, result review, and issue closure.\nParticipate in technical reviews, DFMEA, FTA, risk reviews, root-cause analysis, and corrective action.\nDefine and analyze CAN, LIN, Ethernet, UDS, and related interfaces as required.\nSupport RFQs, estimates, proposals, prototype builds, testing, launch, and production investigations.\nWhat you will bring to the table:\nBachelor of Science degree in a relevant engineering discipline6 or more years of relevant experience, or Master of Science degree with 5 or more years. Experience must include independent Systems Engineering responsibility for automotive electronic or electrical systems and delivery through design, integration, verification, and production launch.\nProgressive automotive electronics Systems Engineering experience appropriate to the career level, including requirements engineering, MBSE or architecture development, interface management, configuration and change control, integration, verification, validation, technical risk management, and production-launch support.\nKnowledge and application, appropriate to the career level, of Automotive SPICE, ISO 26262 functional safety, ISO/SAE 21434 cybersecurity, IATF 16949 or APQP principles, configuration management, technical reviews, and customer-specific requirements.\nKnowledge appropriate to the career level in embedded electronics, vehicle electrical architecture, low-voltage and high-voltage power distribution, fault protection, grounding, isolation, HVIL, diagnostics, CAN, LIN, CAN FD, Ethernet, UDS, sensors, actuators, microcontrollers, power electronics, and AUTOSAR where applicable.\nExperience appropriate to the career level with requirements or application lifecycle management tools, SysML or equivalent system modeling, architecture and interface documentation, change and defect tracking, test management, engineering calculations, and technical data analysis.\nTools: PTC Mathworks, Enterprise Architect, Medini, or equivalent\nPreferred experience in the followingAutomotive body electronics, power distribution, electrification, connectivity, controls, or other embedded electronic control unit products.\nExperience with system models, interface control documents, system specifications, verification matrices, and technical risk registers.\nDFMEA, FTA, 8D, 5 Why, fault analysis, and corrective-action methods.\nSupporting customers, suppliers, global teams, RFQs, prototype builds, vehicle testing, and product launch.\n\nWhat we can provide you:\nA safe collaborative learning work environment that stimulates creativity and exploration\nDiverse teams of experts\nResources from around the globe\nSupportive leadership and team members to help you do your best work\nOpportunities for professional growth\nCompetitive compensation and benefits package including incentive compensation, 401K match, tuition assistance and a generous holiday schedule\nFlexible hybrid schedule \nYazaki North America is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, national origin, disability, handicap, veteran status, or other legally protected status or characteristic. 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