Engineering Group Manager – Systems Engineering, Body Controls Systems

Jobtailor; Missouri; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior leader to head a Mechatronics/Body Systems engineering team in Missouri. You will define architecture, manage interfaces, and own verification, validation, and launch readiness across combined hardware and software domains.

The role requires extensive systems engineering experience, safety-focused governance, and the ability to drive regulatory compliance and cross-functional collaboration with senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field.
• 5+ years in systems engineering, architecture, verification, validation, and launch readiness.
• Experience translating regulations into engineering requirements and compliance evidence.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive technical governance.
• Knowledge of functional safety, DFMEA, safety cases, and diagnostic strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multidisciplinary Mechatronics/Body Systems team across requirements, architecture, integration, and validation.
• Define system boundaries, interfaces, and hardware/software allocation.
• Govern traceability from vehicle to component levels with rigorous reviews.
• Provide technical leadership for system integration, verification, and API support.
• Ensure regulatory compliance and safety readiness for program milestones.
• Mentor engineers and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Systems Engineering Leadership

Functional Safety Knowledge

Regulatory Compliance Experience

Technical Governance

Cross-Functional Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Master's degree in Engineering

Master's degree in Business Administration

Tools

Rhapsody

ISO 26262

Safety Cases

Fault Tree Analysis

API Development

Job description

• Lead a multidisciplinary Mechatronics/Body Systems engineering team responsible for system definition, requirements, architecture, integration, verification, validation, launch readiness, and lifecycle support
• Own Body Systems engineering strategy and technical direction, including system boundaries, functional architecture, operating modes, interfaces, hardware/software allocation, diagnostics, communications, and system interactions
• Establish accountability for complete, feasible, and verifiable system requirements and govern decomposition and traceability across vehicle, feature, system, hardware, software, test-case, and validation-result levels
• Lead development and quality of Body Feature technical specifications, System Technical Specifications, requirements traceability, Rhapsody models, interface definitions, and related systems-engineering work products
• Ensure architecture, design decisions, assumptions, and changes are configuration-controlled, impact-assessed, reviewed, and communicated
• Provide technical leadership for TFRP, system integration, end-to-end testing, API development support, hardware/software integration, and system-level verification and validation
• Define and approve verification and validation strategies covering nominal, boundary, degraded, environmental, diagnostic, misuse, communication-loss, and failed-component conditions
• Partner with System Safety and Product Safety organizations on hazard analyses, safety goals, safety concepts, safety requirements, DFMEAs, fault trees, safety cases, diagnostic strategies, safe-state behavior, and fault-reaction requirements
• Lead regulatory and compliance readiness by identifying applicable vehicle regulations and standards, translating them into system requirements, and ensuring validation and certification evidence is complete
• Partner with Regulation, Certification, Product Safety, Quality, Program, and Feature Owner organizations on regulatory interpretations, design impacts, deviations, waivers, and revalidation
• Govern technical readiness for program milestones, including requirements and architecture maturity, safety and regulatory status, test coverage, risk disposition, validation evidence, supplier readiness, and launch recommendations
• Drive cross-functional problem solving with software, hardware, controls, customer experience, quality, validation, manufacturing, service, suppliers, and program organizations
• Establish RASIC ownership for requirements, architecture, safety artifacts, regulatory deliverables, test plans, validation evidence, issue closure, and launch decisions
• Build a healthy, collaborative team environment and foster continuous improvement and technical accountability
• Mentor and develop engineers and technical leaders through coaching, career planning, technical reviews, succession planning, and feedback
• Set objectives, measure performance, manage workload and resources, and hold team members accountable to technical, behavioral safety, quality, and delivery standards
• Build organizational capability through recruiting, skills development, cross-training, knowledge management, and global workshare planning
• Model and foster GM Core Values and Winning behaviors while keeping safety, integrity, quality, and customer impact central to engineering decisions

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering
• Minimum 7+ years of engineering experience related to system design, calibration, embedded controls, data analytics, warranty analysis, and/or complex automotive system development
• Broad, working knowledge of automotive system design and best practices
• Ability to operate in ambiguity while making sound, timely decisions and driving meaningful action
• Proven experience creating and executing plans aligned with long-term business strategy, product needs, and enterprise-wide goals
• Demonstrated ability to deliver results across multiple simultaneous projects in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment
• Working knowledge of functional safety, product safety, hazard analysis, safety requirements, DFMEA, fault-tree analysis, safety cases, and diagnostic or fail-operational strategies
• Experience translating vehicle regulations, standards, or certification obligations into engineering requirements and objective compliance evidence
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical decisions and resolve complex cross-functional issues involving hardware, software, controls, systems, suppliers, and program stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to establish technical governance, review work products, manage risk, and communicate readiness and escalation decisions to senior leadership
• Demonstrated experience leading systems engineering activities across requirements, system architecture, interfaces, integration, verification, validation, and launch readiness
• Preferred: Master's degree in Engineering or Master's degree in Business Administration
• Preferred: 5+ years of direct or indirect leadership of technical teams
• Preferred: Experience with Body Electronics, mechatronics, embedded controls, vehicle access, lighting, closures, or other safety- and regulation-relevant automotive systems
• Preferred: Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering, ISO 26262 or comparable functional-safety processes, Product Safety, and system safety processes
• Preferred: Experience managing technical teams across multiple vehicle programs, global workshare locations, and simultaneous development milestones

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in systems engineering, including requirements management, system architecture, and integration for automotive applications. Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, ensure compliance with safety standards, and drive technical governance across complex projects.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Systems Engineering Leadership
• Functional Safety Knowledge
• Regulatory Compliance Experience
• Technical Governance
• Cross-Functional Problem Solving

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Systems Engineering
• Requirements Management
• System Architecture
• Verification and Validation
• Hazard Analysis
• DFMEA
• Model-Based Systems Engineering
• Embedded Controls
• Data Analytics
• Automotive System Design

Soft Skills

• Team Leadership
• Decision Making
• Collaboration
• Mentoring
• Continuous Improvement

Industry Keywords

• Automotive Systems
• Body Electronics
• Mechatronics
• Product Safety
• Regulatory Standards

Tools & Technologies

• Rhapsody
• ISO 26262
• Safety Cases
• Fault Tree Analysis
• API Development