Hardware Resident Engineer

Job Description

Job title: Hardware Resident Engineer

Location: Toyota city, Nagoya, Japan (relocation assistance available)

Role Purpose & Value

Liaison with customer, acting as technical Interface between customer and GKN ECU Hardware teams. Lead customer interface ECU Hardware reporting, open issue tracking, timeline management, and escalation management.

Key Responsibilities

To strengthen our engineering team we are looking for a Hardware Engineer to be a resident engineer at a large vehicle OEM in Japan.

Your key responsibilities will be contributor and support of low voltage power electronics designs for application to Electronic Control Units and be the Lead Customer Interface, understanding, analyzing and managing customer change needs and requests relating to electrical hardware and execution feasibility.

Your ability to speak both Japanese and English at business level will be important as this you will need to analyze, link, and distribute customer needs the GKN electrical hardware design and test team.

Tasks and areas of responsibility:

• Reporting /Meeting/explanation/Presentation within OEM
• Being key interface for EHW to customer by:
• Handling changes (requirement handling and negotiation customer)
• Adjustment timing (alignment HW timing to project level milestones)
• Support validation (test plan definition, negotiation, reporting)
• Customer onsite support if needed (small adaptation, e.g. connector pin change)
• Failure investigation
• Design support
• Support and debug hardware issues in the lab and at customer through commissioning, testing, diagnosing, and inspection through development life cycle
• Being bidirectional communication interface for design question like providing input into development of design justification/Worst Case Circuit Analysis to validate design selection
• Support release electrical hardware design outputs from ECAD tools according to GKN processes, and facilitate customer releases
• Being customer interface for Safety topic and support design for functional safety and support Functional Safety engineer on all Electronic Control Unit
• Understand product design including simulations, component selection, schematic design, thermal concept, Design to Cost, and Design for Manufacturing
  
  

Skills and Experience that will set you up for success:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
• Experience in Automotive Applications
• Understanding of automotive and functional safety development processes
• Understanding of Automotive SPICE(A-SPICE) and Cyber Security (ISO/SAE21434(UN R 155/156)
• Understanding of Tests of ECU hardware
• Driver License in Japan
• Japanese (Fluent – Writing/Reading/listening)
• English (Business level)