Electrical Quality Leader – Diagnostics & Safety

Stellantis; Auburn Hills (MI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Well-being coverage

Generous paid time off

Company vehicle lease program

Family building benefit

Tuition reimbursement

Volunteer hours

Retirement savings plans

Income protection

Job summary

Stellantis is seeking a Quality Function Manager for Electrical Architecture, Diagnostic Strategy and Functional Safety in Auburn Hills, MI. This role drives E/E quality performance across design standards, processes, and milestones, consolidating lessons learned and field data to improve architecture and diagnostic readiness.

The role partners with Engineering teams to review architecture, diagnostic and safety alternatives, and lead quality gates from concept to launch and field

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Minimum of 8 years of engineering experience.
• Strong automotive E/E systems background with experience in electrical architecture, diagnostics, functional safety, vehicle networks, or system integration.
• Solid understanding of E/E architecture development, diagnostic strategy, embedded systems behavior, network communication, validation, and vehicle integration constraints.
• Good knowledge of quality methods and deliverables, including DFMEA, System FMEA, DVP&R, APQP, risk management, problem solving, Lessons Learned, and launch readiness.
• Familiarity with functional safety principles, safety requirements, failure modes, failure reactions, safe states, traceability, and verification evidence.

Responsibilities

• Lead proactive analysis of customer claims, warranty data, diagnostic reports, plant defects, launch issues, and connected-vehicle feedback to identify architecture, diagnostic, and system-behavior risk patterns.
• Ensure design integrity for electrical architecture, diagnostic strategy, and functional safety by verifying standards, engineering rules, release processes, safety work-product expectations, diagnostic requirements, quality checkpoints, and expected deliverables.
• Work closely with Engineering teams to review architecture, diagnostic, and functional safety alternatives, challenge technical assumptions, compare options from a quality, robustness, serviceability, safety, and customer-impact perspective, and support the selection of the most appropriate technical solution.
• Verify the completion and robustness of DFMEA, System FMEA, design reviews, diagnostic specifications, validation evidence, detection plans, risk assessments, safety work products, Lessons Learned deployment, and quality-gate evidence.
• Release a structured quality report at each project milestone, summarizing expected deliverables, completion status, risk assessment, open gaps, and recovery plans when deliverables are not achieved.
• Drive root-cause analysis across architecture, software, hardware, network communication, diagnostics, functional safety, and service processes.
• Define and assess diagnostic strategy effectiveness, including DTC definition, failure detection thresholds, fault isolation, service procedures, guided diagnostics, and prevention of unnecessary part replacement.
• Support functional safety quality governance by verifying that safety requirements, failure reactions, safe states, degraded modes, traceability, verification evidence, and review milestones are completed according to the defined process.
• Manage technical risks, deviations, missed deliverables, and open quality points through clear recovery plans, action ownership, escalation, governance, and timely closure.
• Capitalize Lessons Learned and Best Practices into architecture standards, diagnostic rules, process checklists, validation criteria, functional safety audit criteria, deliverable expectations, and quality gates.
• Support launch readiness by reviewing architecture maturity, diagnostic readiness, software/hardware integration, plant detection, service readiness, functional safety evidence, and field-monitoring strategy.
• Lead technical reviews with Systems Engineering, Electrical Architecture, Diagnostics, Functional Safety, Software, Hardware, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality, Technical Centers, Customer Care, and Service Engineering.

Skills

E/E systems expertise

Electrical architecture

Diagnostics

Functional safety

Cross-functional collaboration

Root-cause analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science

Tools

PLM

Quantic

Lessons Learned

Bulletin

Teamcenter

Enovia

Job description

Stellantis is seeking a Quality Function Manager for Electrical Architecture, Diagnostic Strategy and Functional Safety in Auburn Hills, MI. This role drives E/E quality performance across design standards, processes, and milestones, consolidating lessons learned and field data to improve architecture and diagnostic readiness.

The role partners with Engineering teams to review architecture, diagnostic and safety alternatives, and lead quality gates from concept to launch and field