Development Engineering Manager - ADAS & Autonomous Marine

yamahaexternalcareersite; Kennesaw (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Fertility benefits

37.5 hour work week

Medical, Dental, Vision

AD&D Insurance

Wellness Program

Short-Term Disability

Long-Term Disability

Student debt repayment

Product borrowing

Job summary

Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA is seeking a Development Engineer Manager to lead the full lifecycle of ADAS and autonomous marine programs in Kennesaw, GA. You will oversee cross-functional teams across software, controls, electrical, mechanical, and systems engineering to deliver new marine products.

You will drive system requirements, architecture, verification, and product launch activities while managing safety, cybersecurity, and supplier relationships.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or related field required.
• 5-10 years of engineering or product-development experience, including complex software-enabled or electromechanical systems.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing engineering teams, technical programs, or cross-functional product-development activities.
• Experience leading requirements definition, system architecture, integration, verification, validation, and product launch activities.
• Strong cross-functional leadership capability, including experience working with suppliers and external development partners.
• Strategic thinking with an operational execution focus and the ability to communicate technical and business tradeoffs to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end development lifecycle for ADAS, autonomous marine systems, and related new-product programs across multiple projects or functional areas.
• Lead coordination across software, controls, electrical, mechanical, systems engineering, product planning, validation, legal/IP, suppliers, and external technology partners.
• Establish technical and program priorities and allocate resources across projects based on business value, technical dependencies, safety, and delivery risk.
• Drive alignment across functions where direct authority may not exist, including agreement on system requirements, interfaces, architecture, verification, and release readiness.
• Provide leadership and direction to project leads and engineering teams developing perception, sensor fusion, path planning, collision avoidance, situational awareness, and autonomous or assisted-operation functions.
• Monitor project performance and manage technical, functional-safety, cybersecurity, supplier, intellectual-property, schedule, and integration risks across multiple workstreams.
• Establish and improve systems-engineering, simulation, prototyping, hardware-software integration, on-water validation, issue-management, and design-review processes.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, resource planning, supplier selection, and make-or-buy decisions for advanced technology programs.
• Contribute to broader development strategy and technology-roadmap discussions for intelligent, connected, assisted, and autonomous marine products.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Communication to senior leadership

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics

Advanced degree in Computer Science or Robotics

Tools

CAN

J1939

NMEA 2000

Sensor fusion

Job description

Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA is seeking a Development Engineer Manager to lead the full lifecycle of ADAS and autonomous marine programs in Kennesaw, GA. You will oversee cross-functional teams across software, controls, electrical, mechanical, and systems engineering to deliver new marine products.

You will drive system requirements, architecture, verification, and product launch activities while managing safety, cybersecurity, and supplier relationships.