Zf Friedrichshafen Ag

Senior Engineer - Systems

Zf Friedrichshafen Ag$110K — $130K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering (Electronics, electrical, software or similar discipline)
  • Minimum 5+ years of experience in Automotive Systems Engineering
  • Experience with ADAS, autonomous driving, or safety-critical automotive systems
  • Strong experience with IBM Rational DOORS / Codebeamer, IBM Rhapsody/ Enterprise Architect
  • Working knowledge of vehicle diagnostics and communication protocols (CANoe, CANalyzer, CANape)
  • Deep understanding of Requirements Engineering, System Architecture Design, and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)

Responsibilities

  • Analyze and clarify customer, regulatory, and stakeholder requirements for ADAS and automotive systems
  • Identify requirement gaps and define bridging requirements
  • Maintain end-to-end requirements traceability across the V-Cycle
  • Manage requirements baselines and impact analysis using management tools
  • Engage with customers to resolve ambiguities and negotiate solutions
  • Develop and maintain system architectures and models using MBSE tools
  • Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to ensure compliance and risk mitigation

Benefits

  • Supportive collaborative team environment
  • Annual Incentive Plan
  • Paid Vacation
  • Personal Time
  • 401k Plan
  • Health Care Benefits
  • Paid Holidays
  • Strong diversity culture
  • Supportive Employee Groups and community outreach activities
Full Job Description
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Job Description

The Senior Engineer serves as a technical leader within the project, driving requirements management, system architecture development, traceability, safety compliance, and issue resolution throughout the entire product lifecycle.

What you can look forward to as Senior System Engineer:
  • Analyze, review, clarify, and decompose customer, regulatory, and internal stakeholder requirements for ADAS, automotive perception, front camera, and safety-related systems.
  • Identify requirement gaps between customer expectations and platform or core product capabilities, then define bridging requirements and technical trade-offs.
  • Maintain end-to-end requirements traceability across the V-Cycle, from stakeholder requirements through system verification and validation.
  • Manage requirements baselines, changes, and impact analysis using approved requirements management tools and processes.
  • Engage with customers to resolve ambiguities, align system expectations, and negotiate feasible technical solutions.
  • Develop and maintain logical and physical system architectures, including system models, interface definitions, operational scenarios, and functional decompositions using MBSE tools.
  • Collaborate with hardware, software, perception, safety, validation, functional safety, and cybersecurity teams to ensure architectural consistency, feasibility, compliance, and risk mitigation.
  • Support HARA, FSC, TSR, System FMEA, FTA, ASPICE, ISO 26262 compliance, customer-specific requirements, audits, assessments, and customer reviews.


Your profile as Senior Systems Engineer:
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering (Electronics, electrical, software or similar discipline).
  • Minimum 5+ years of experience in Automotive Systems Engineering.
  • Experience working on ADAS, autonomous driving, or safety-critical automotive systems.
  • Strong experience with IBM Rational DOORS / Codebeamer, IBM Rhapsody/ Enterprise Architect (preferred)
  • Working knowledge of CANoe, CANalyzer, CANape, Vehicle diagnostics and communication protocols (preferred)
  • Deep understanding of Requirements Engineering, System Architecture Design, Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Automotive SPICE, Functional Safety (ISO 26262), Cybersecurity (ISO/SAE 21434) (preferred)


What We Offer:
  • A supportive collaborative team environment
  • Annual Incentive Plan
  • Paid Vacation
  • Personal Time
  • 401k Plan
  • Health Care Benefits
  • Paid Holidays
  • A strong diversity culture
  • Supportive Employee Groups and community outreach activities


Be part of our ZF team as Senior Engineer - Systems and apply now!

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Gabriela Palacio

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About Zf Friedrichshafen Ag

ZF Friedrichshafen AG is a German car parts maker headquartered in Friedrichshafen, in the south-west German region of Baden-Württemberg. Specialising in driveline and chassis technology as well as active and passive safety technology, the company has a global workforce of around 160,000 with approximately 260 locations in 41 countries. In 2019, ZF achieved sales of ?36.5 billion. ZF is one of the world's largest automotive suppliers and a leading technology company for mobility.
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