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.