Lead Requirements Engineer (m/f/d)

KOSTAL Automobil Elektrik Poland; Wrocław; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical care

Multisport card

Lunch vouchers

Job summary

KOSTAL Group in Wrocław is seeking an experienced Lead Requirements Engineer to shape and implement a company-wide approach to requirements engineering. You will drive methodology, governance, and templates across global development projects, spanning customer, system, hardware, and software levels to verification and validation.

You will lead workshops, harmonize practices across locations, and collaborate with Systems, Software, Hardware, Functional Safety, Cybersecurity, Test and Quality

Qualifications

• University degree in electrical/automotive/mechatronics/computer science or related technical discipline
• Proven experience in requirements engineering within the automotive industry
• Excellent knowledge of the complete requirements lifecycle
• Experience with customer requirements and system requirements derivation
• Experience contributing to introduction or improvement of requirements processes
• Experience with automotive development projects and ISO standards

Responsibilities

• Elicit and analyze customer and system requirements across levels
• Transform customer requirements into verifiable system requirements
• Derive and align subsystem, hardware, and software requirements
• Ensure clear, consistent, complete, and testable requirements specifications
• Facilitate requirements workshops with stakeholders
• Align requirements with international development, product management, quality and project teams
• Maintain bidirectional traceability between requirements, tests and verifications
• Support governance, reviews, and change management
• Advise project teams on methodological and technical requirements
• Promote standardized understanding of requirements engineering across the organization
• Contribute to SPICE maturity assessments

Skills

Analytical thinking

Structured approach

Requirements engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Advising teams

Automotive SPICE

ISO 26262

ISO/SAE 21434

Scrum / Agile

Systems Engineering

English (business fluent)

German (advantage)

Education

University degree in Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline

Tools

IBM DOORS/DOORS Next

Jira

Job description

We are KOSTAL Group, a global, independent family-owned company headquartered in Germany, developing and manufacturing high-tech electronic and mechatronic products. Across 47 locations in 21 countries, more than 19,000 employees work flexibly, competently, and close to our customers.

Join KOSTAL and shape the requirements engineering backbone for KOSTAL's European development organization!

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Lead Requirements Engineer (m/f/d). In this position, you will actively contribute to the methodological development, standardization, and implementation of a company-wide requirements engineering approach. You will use your extensive experience to further develop existing practices and embed them within global development processes. Your area of responsibility will cover all levels of requirements engineering – from customer requirements through the system, subsystem, hardware, and software levels to verification and validation.

Contribution to Methodology and Process Development

• Actively contribute to the development of a company-wide requirements engineering methodology
• Help shape and standardize processes, roles, responsibilities, and work products
• Contribute to the development of guidelines for the elicitation, analysis, specification, alignment, verification, and validation of requirements
• Support the implementation of the requirements engineering approach within the global development process
• Contribute to harmonizing existing practices across projects, development locations, and product areas
• Develop and continuously improve templates, guidelines, checklists, and quality criteria
• Contribute to establishing a consistent requirements lifecycle across all development phases and levels of abstraction
• Support the definition of governance, review, and approval mechanisms
• Identify process gaps and develop and implement improvement proposals
• Advise project teams and engineering managers on methodological and technical requirements
• engineering topics
• Role boundary: Responsibility for the company-wide methodology and process development does not lie with this position. The successful candidate will make a significant contribution to its development and implementation.

Operational Requirements Engineering

• Elicit and analyze customer, stakeholder, system, safety, and regulatory requirements
• Structure and derive requirements across the various technical levels
• Transform customer requirements into verifiable system requirements
• Derive and align subsystem, hardware, and software requirements
• Ensure that requirements specifications are clear, consistent, complete, and testable
• Facilitate requirements workshops with internal and external stakeholders
• Align technical requirements with international development, product management, quality, and project teams
• Ensure bidirectional traceability between customer requirements, system requirements, technical requirements, test cases, and verification results
• Support the planning and execution of requirements reviews
• Evaluate and manage change requests from a requirements perspective
• Monitor the impact of changes on systems, subsystems, hardware, software, testing, schedules, and risks
• Support the verification and validation of requirements
• Analyze and improve the quality of requirements and requirements baselines
• Document and track decisions, assumptions, open issues, and dependencies

Collaboration with Development Organizations

• Work closely with Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Functional Safety, Cybersecurity, Test, and Quality Assurance
• Integrate requirements engineering into existing development and project structures
• Support international projects in applying the defined processes in practice
• Advise project teams and engineering managers on methodological and technical matters
• Promote a consistent understanding of requirements engineering across the organization
• Support assessments, audits, and maturity evaluations, particularly in the context of Automotive SPICE

Qualifications

Professional Qualifications:

• University degree in Electrical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Mechatronics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a comparable technical discipline
• At least 5 years of professional experience in requirements engineering within the automotive industry
• Extensive experience with complex international automotive development projects
• Proven experience in requirements engineering across multiple technical levels
• Excellent knowledge of the complete requirements lifecycle
• Experience with customer requirements and system requirements, including their derivation at subsystem, hardware, and software level
• Experience contributing to the introduction, standardization, or improvement of requirements engineering processes
• Good knowledge of requirements traceability through to verification and validation
• Experience working with global automotive manufacturers and their development, quality, and documentation requirements
• Good knowledge of Automotive SPICE, ISO 26262, and ISO/SAE 21434
• Good knowledge of agile development methods and Scrum
• Solid knowledge of Systems Engineering
• Practical experience with IBM DOORS or DOORS Next
• Experience using Jira in a development or requirements management environment

Personal Skills

• Strong analytical and structured approach to work
• Ability to present complex technical interrelationships in a clear and structured manner

  Language Skills

  • Business-fluent English, both written and spoken, is essential
  • German language skills are an advantage

  Additional Information

  What We Offer:

  • employment contract
  • flexible working hours
  • challenging role with diverse projects and the opportunity to bring your own ideas to life
  • friendly, collaborative international work environment.
  • comprehensive benefits package, including:
  • private medical care,
  • Multisport cards,
  • lunch cards.