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Product Development Engineers work at the intersection of design, manufacturing, and systems integration, roles USCIS consistently classifies as specialty occupations requiring at least a bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field. Employers across medical devices, consumer electronics, and industrial equipment sponsor H-1B visas for this title regularly, and the annual 85,000-slot cap makes timing your job search critical.
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Yazaki is a global leader in the research, development, and delivery of vehicle power and data solutions.
Yazaki works with virtually every major auto manufacturer globally, and we've strived to maintain strategic and stable growth throughout our 84-year history. 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.
Location: Canton, MI USA
What we are looking for:
Yazaki 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.
The 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.
What you will be doing:
- Completes moderately complex assignments, identifies technical risks, and coordinates closure across disciplines.
- Leads requirements management, requirements decomposition, requirements allocation, traceability, and impact analysis for assigned scope.
- Develops and evaluates architecture options and aligns interfaces across engineering disciplines.
- Coordinates integration and verification readiness and leads root-cause and recovery activities for assigned issues.
- Reviews work products for technical quality, consistency, traceability, and process compliance.
- Leads selected technical discussions, presents recommendations, and secures alignment on decisions and actions.
- Work with customers and internal stakeholders to identify, analyze, clarify, document, and maintain product and system requirements, assumptions, constraints, and acceptance criteria.
- Decompose and allocate system requirements to hardware, software, mechanical, diagnostics, manufacturing, and validation disciplines.
- Maintain bidirectional traceability from stakeholder requirements through design, implementation, and verification evidence.
- Develop system context, functional and logical architectures, interface definitions, operating scenarios, state behavior, data flows, and network topology.
- Evaluate customer specifications, standards, and regulations for impact on design, verification, and technical risk.
- Manage baselines, technical changes, impact assessments, configuration status, review actions, and release readiness.
- Coordinate technical work across engineering, validation, manufacturing, quality, project management, safety, cybersecurity, and suppliers.
- Prepare Automotive SPICE system engineering work products and objective evidence.
- Apply Automotive SPICE SYS.1 through SYS.5 practices and support ISO 26262 safety concepts, safety analyses, and verification evidence.
- Define system-level verification criteria and support integration, verification, validation, result review, and issue closure.
- Participate in technical reviews, DFMEA, FTA, risk reviews, root-cause analysis, and corrective action.
- Define and analyze CAN, LIN, Ethernet, UDS, and related interfaces as required.
- Support RFQs, estimates, proposals, prototype builds, testing, launch, and production investigations.
What you will bring to the table:
- Bachelor of Science degree in a relevant engineering discipline or 6 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.
- Progressive 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.
- Knowledge 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.
- Knowledge 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.
- Experience 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.
- Tools: PTC Mathworks, Enterprise Architect, Medini, or equivalent.
Preferred experience in the following:
- Automotive body electronics, power distribution, electrification, connectivity, controls, or other embedded electronic control unit products.
- Experience with system models, interface control documents, system specifications, verification matrices, and technical risk registers.
- DFMEA, FTA, 8D, 5 Why, fault analysis, and corrective-action methods.
- Supporting customers, suppliers, global teams, RFQs, prototype builds, vehicle testing, and product launch.
What we can provide you:
- A safe collaborative learning work environment that stimulates creativity and exploration
- Diverse teams of experts
- Resources from around the globe
- Supportive leadership and team members to help you do your best work
- Opportunities for professional growth
- Competitive compensation and benefits package including incentive compensation, 401K match, tuition assistance and a generous holiday schedule
- Flexible hybrid schedule
Yazaki 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. Equal opportunity extends to all aspects of the employment relationship. Yazaki North America complies with federal and state equal employment opportunity laws and strives to keep the workplace free from all forms of harassment.
Engineer, Product Development, Systems Engineering
Yazaki is a global leader in the research, development, and delivery of vehicle power and data solutions.
Yazaki works with virtually every major auto manufacturer globally, and we've strived to maintain strategic and stable growth throughout our 84-year history. 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.
Location: Canton, MI USA
What we are looking for:
Yazaki 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.
The 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.
What you will be doing:
- Completes moderately complex assignments, identifies technical risks, and coordinates closure across disciplines.
- Leads requirements management, requirements decomposition, requirements allocation, traceability, and impact analysis for assigned scope.
- Develops and evaluates architecture options and aligns interfaces across engineering disciplines.
- Coordinates integration and verification readiness and leads root-cause and recovery activities for assigned issues.
- Reviews work products for technical quality, consistency, traceability, and process compliance.
- Leads selected technical discussions, presents recommendations, and secures alignment on decisions and actions.
- Work with customers and internal stakeholders to identify, analyze, clarify, document, and maintain product and system requirements, assumptions, constraints, and acceptance criteria.
- Decompose and allocate system requirements to hardware, software, mechanical, diagnostics, manufacturing, and validation disciplines.
- Maintain bidirectional traceability from stakeholder requirements through design, implementation, and verification evidence.
- Develop system context, functional and logical architectures, interface definitions, operating scenarios, state behavior, data flows, and network topology.
- Evaluate customer specifications, standards, and regulations for impact on design, verification, and technical risk.
- Manage baselines, technical changes, impact assessments, configuration status, review actions, and release readiness.
- Coordinate technical work across engineering, validation, manufacturing, quality, project management, safety, cybersecurity, and suppliers.
- Prepare Automotive SPICE system engineering work products and objective evidence.
- Apply Automotive SPICE SYS.1 through SYS.5 practices and support ISO 26262 safety concepts, safety analyses, and verification evidence.
- Define system-level verification criteria and support integration, verification, validation, result review, and issue closure.
- Participate in technical reviews, DFMEA, FTA, risk reviews, root-cause analysis, and corrective action.
- Define and analyze CAN, LIN, Ethernet, UDS, and related interfaces as required.
- Support RFQs, estimates, proposals, prototype builds, testing, launch, and production investigations.
What you will bring to the table:
- Bachelor of Science degree in a relevant engineering discipline or 6 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.
- Progressive 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.
- Knowledge 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.
- Knowledge 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.
- Experience 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.
- Tools: PTC Mathworks, Enterprise Architect, Medini, or equivalent.
Preferred experience in the following:
- Automotive body electronics, power distribution, electrification, connectivity, controls, or other embedded electronic control unit products.
- Experience with system models, interface control documents, system specifications, verification matrices, and technical risk registers.
- DFMEA, FTA, 8D, 5 Why, fault analysis, and corrective-action methods.
- Supporting customers, suppliers, global teams, RFQs, prototype builds, vehicle testing, and product launch.
What we can provide you:
- A safe collaborative learning work environment that stimulates creativity and exploration
- Diverse teams of experts
- Resources from around the globe
- Supportive leadership and team members to help you do your best work
- Opportunities for professional growth
- Competitive compensation and benefits package including incentive compensation, 401K match, tuition assistance and a generous holiday schedule
- Flexible hybrid schedule
Yazaki 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. Equal opportunity extends to all aspects of the employment relationship. Yazaki North America complies with federal and state equal employment opportunity laws and strives to keep the workplace free from all forms of harassment.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Product Development Engineer
Align your degree to your specialization
USCIS scrutinizes whether your specific degree field matches your product development role. A mechanical engineering degree supporting a hardware-focused position is clean. A business degree for the same role invites an RFE. Document the technical overlap explicitly before you apply.
Use OFLC Wage Search before negotiating
Your employer's LCA must certify a wage at or above the DOL prevailing wage for your SOC code and location. Pull the OFLC Wage Search figures yourself so you enter salary conversations knowing the legal floor, not just market benchmarks.
Search Migrate Mate for LCA-verified employers
Filter by product development roles on Migrate Mate to see which employers have active H-1B LCA filing history. This cuts your list to companies with a documented record of sponsoring your specific occupation, not just general engineering roles.
Target cap-exempt employers in your sector
Universities, nonprofit research institutions, and certain government-affiliated labs are exempt from the H-1B lottery cap. Product development roles exist at these organizations in biomedical, energy, and defense research. Pursuing a cap-exempt offer eliminates lottery risk entirely.
Request premium processing before your start date
Standard I-129 adjudication can run several months. If your offer has a firm start date tied to a product launch cycle, ask your employer to file with USCIS premium processing to get a decision within 15 business days and protect your timeline.
Review your O*NET profile before the interview
The O*NET occupation profile for product development engineers lists the core tasks and knowledge areas USCIS uses to evaluate specialty occupation status. Framing your experience in those terms during interviews helps the employer's attorney build a stronger petition.
H-1B Visa Product Development Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Product Development Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, in most cases. USCIS evaluates whether the position normally requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific technical field. Product development engineering roles grounded in mechanical, electrical, biomedical, or industrial engineering consistently meet this standard. Roles with vague duty descriptions or a mix of non-technical responsibilities can draw RFEs, so the job description precision matters as much as the title itself.
Which industries sponsor H-1B visas most often for Product Development Engineers?
Medical device manufacturers, semiconductor and electronics companies, automotive suppliers, and industrial equipment firms file LCAs for product development engineering roles at high volume. Defense contractors and aerospace companies also sponsor regularly, though some require security clearance eligibility. You can see which specific employers have active filing history for this occupation on Migrate Mate before targeting your applications.
Can I transfer my H-1B to a new employer if I change product development roles mid-visa?
Yes. H-1B portability under AC21 lets you start working for a new employer as soon as they file a new I-129 petition, provided your original petition was approved and you've maintained valid status. The new employer must file their own LCA for your new role and location. If the product scope or SOC code changes significantly, the new petition is evaluated on its own merits.
How does the H-1B lottery affect my timeline for starting a Product Development Engineer role?
Cap-subject H-1B petitions must be filed in April for an October 1 start date. USCIS selects registrations by lottery in March, and only selected registrants can file petitions. If you're not selected, you'd need to wait for the next lottery cycle, pursue a cap-exempt employer, or explore bridge visas like OPT extension if you're on F-1 status. Planning your job search around the lottery window is essential.
What documentation strengthens an H-1B petition for a Product Development Engineer?
A detailed job description that maps specific duties to engineering degree requirements is the foundation. Supporting materials include your official transcripts, any professional engineering licenses, patents you've contributed to, and a clear explanation of the product systems you'll work on. If your degree is from outside the U.S., a credential evaluation from a NACES-approved evaluator helps USCIS confirm the equivalency to a U.S. bachelor's degree in the relevant field.