Lead Systems Engineer - Suspension Controls

at  Jaguar Land Rover

WHAT TO EXPECT

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Lead Systems Engineer to join our growing team in Gaydon, UK. The Vertical Function Group is part of Body and Chassis Commodity Group, in Product Engineering. You will be part of the Suspension Controls team, designing and implementing safe, deterministic software and ISO26262 compliant processes for our wide range of Suspension Control Systems.
We are looking for a Lead Systems Engineer who has a proven track record within the industry which has driven safety, quality and continue improvement through processes, ways of working, software tooling and software development. The individual must also have a good understanding of designing, developing and configuring production grade systems or particular system components in terms of throughput, availability, scalability and security.
You will be expected to contribute to define change management, configuration management, software development and software verification strategies, etc, focusing on system integrity. You will be expected to support the Suspension Controls squads in wider business discussion, training, process definition and technical documentation.

• Provide software safety technical expertise in the development of Reliable embedded software solutions.
• Act as an interface between the Suspension Controls team and the Safety and Cyber Security team, supporting various activities (e.g. DFMEA, Fault Tree Analysis, DFA inc. both common failure analysis and cascading failure analysis, Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment, TARA), to ensure the compliance with ISO26262 and ISO/SAE 21434 and other relevant regulations (e.g. UNECE R155)
• Evaluate software architecture and designs to identify potential failure modes and their effects in support of futher system-level analysis, characteristic/parts classification and other probabilistic safety analysis activities.
• Ensure continuous improvement through effective lessons learned, knowledge capture and process development compliant with ISO26262, ISO/SAE 21434 and other relevant regulations (e.g. UNECE R155)
• Participating in audits to maintain departmental and company standards & procedures
• Support software development strategies, software verification strategies and tool qualification strategies.
• Establish and deploy best technical practice; knowledge transfer in terms of formal training and mentoring.
• Engage with suppliers on safety matters.
• To leverage industry standard techniques and best practices to influence our software development process.