Interaction Engineer

Jobtailor; Allen Park (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Michigan seeks an experienced Automotive HMI Engineer to translate UX designs into actionable software deliverables within a cross-functional team. You will break down UX concepts, manage Jira-based epic-task hierarchies, track milestones, and ensure alignment with regulatory and program milestones, with domestic travel up to 10%.

The role requires a Master’s degree in CS or EE and 5+ years in automotive HMI development on Linux/QNX/Android Automotive OS, plus strong Jira/Confluence

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or a related field.
• 5 years of experience developing and deploying automotive HMI software on Linux/QNX/Android Automotive OS with QT or similar UI framework.
• Coordinate UX design and engineering deliverables to ensure timely execution and strategic alignment.
• Design and manage UX to engineering lifecycle from design freeze to implementation reviews.
• Translate regulatory requirements for automotive HMI into software requirements and functional definition.
• Analyze and decompose HMI UX designs for software feasibility.
• Build, assign, and track HMI task dependencies in Jira.
• Create executive level program reports using Jira and Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Leveraging UX principles to communicate across UX design, business, technical, and project management domains to align expectations and tasks.
• Break down UX designs into Jira epic-task hierarchies and prioritize, allocate, and track those tasks to completion.
• Identify meaningful functional milestones and drive cross-functional alignment to those milestones.
• Track and communicate project status and risks through cross-team meetings and dashboards built in Jira/Confluence.
• Ensure HMI development is aligned to broader program milestones.
• Domestic travel required up to 10%.

Skills

Automotive HMI development

Coordinate UX-Eng deliverables

UX-to-engineering lifecycle

Translate requirements into software

Decompose HMI UX designs

Manage Jira task dependencies

Executive reports in Jira/Confluence

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Responsibilities

• Leveraging a deep understanding of user experience principles and user needs to communicate cross-functionally, translating between UX design, business, technical, and project management domains and teams to ensure alignment of expectations and tasks.
• Breaking down UX designs into Jira epic-task hierarchies, and prioritizing, allocating, and tracking those tasks to completion.
• Identifying meaningful functional milestones and driving cross-functional alignment to those milestones.
• Tracking and communicating project status and risks through cross-team alignment meetings, execution level status reports, and dashboards built in Jira and Confluence.
• Ensuring that HMI development is aligned to the broader strategic program milestones.
• Domestic Travel Required up to 10%.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or a related field and 5 years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
• 5 years of experience with each of the following skills is required:
  1. Develop and deploy software for automotive HMI applications running on Linux OS, QNX, or Android Automotive OS, using HMI frameworks including QT, Android Automotive Platform, or similar UI application framework.
• 2 years of experience with each of the following skills is required:
  1. Program and manage automotive HMI software projects by coordinating UX design and engineering deliverables, ensuring timely execution and strategic alignment.
  2. Design and manage UX to engineering lifecycle through the following phases: design freeze, artifact hand-offs, and implementation reviews.
  3. Translate regulatory requirements for an automotive HMI into software requirements and functional definition.
  4. Analyze and decompose HMI UX designs as inputs into software design and implementation feasibility.
  5. Build, assign, and track task dependency hierarchies for HMI software projects using Jira.
• 1 year of experience with each of the following skills is required:
  1. Create executive level program reports using Jira and Confluence.