Quality Function Manager – Electrical Architecture, Diagnostic Strategy and Functional Safety

Stellantisfinancialservices; Auburn Hills (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellantisfinancialservices seeks a Quality Function Manager for Electrical Architecture, Diagnostic Strategy and Functional Safety to lead E/E quality performance across vehicle architecture from concept to launch and field monitoring.

You will consolidate quality activities with Engineering teams, review architecture and safety options, and translate field feedback into improved standards, processes, and risk mitigation. Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 8+ years of engineering experience in automotive E/E.
• Strong background in electrical architecture, diagnostics, and functional safety.
• Solid understanding of E/E architecture development, diagnostic strategy, embedded systems, network communication, and vehicle integration constraints.
• Knowledge of quality methods and deliverables (DFMEA, System FMEA, DVP&R, APQP).
• Familiarity with safety principles, safety requirements, failure modes and verification evidence.
• Ability to verify design integrity, process adherence, and cross-functional action closure.
• Experience collaborating with Systems Engineering, Software, Hardware, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality, and Service teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead proactive analysis of customer claims, warranty data, diagnostic reports, and field feedback to identify architectural and system-risk patterns.
• Ensure design integrity for electrical architecture, diagnostic strategy, and functional safety by applying standards and quality checkpoints.
• Review architecture, diagnostic, and safety alternatives with engineering teams and support selection of robust solutions.
• Verify DFMEA, System FMEA, design reviews, diagnostic specs, validation evidence, and safety work products.
• Release structured quality reports at project milestones with risk assessment and recovery plans.
• Drive root-cause analysis across architecture, software, hardware, networking, diagnostics, and safety processes.
• Define and assess diagnostic strategy effectiveness including DTC definitions and fault thresholds.
• Support functional safety governance by verifying safety requirements, traceability, and verification evidence.
• Manage risks, deviations, and open quality points with clear recovery plans and ownership.
• Capitalize lessons learned into architecture standards and quality gates.
• Support launch readiness by reviewing maturity, integration, and field-monitoring strategy.
• Lead technical reviews with Systems Engineering, Diagnostics, Software, Hardware, and Manufacturing teams.

Skills

E/E systems

Diagnostics

Functional Safety

System Integration

Quality governance

Communication

Presentation skills

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

PLM

Quantic

Lessons Learned

Bulletin

Teamcenter

Enovia

Job description

The Quality Function Manager for Electrical Architecture, Diagnostic Strategy and Functional Safety is responsible for driving E/E Quality performance and ensuring design integrity across the vehicle electrical architecture by verifying that applicable design standards are followed, quality and engineering processes are applied consistently, and expected quality deliverables are achieved according to project milestones.

The role proactively consolidates quality activities from concept to launch and field monitoring, working closely with Engineering teams to review architecture, diagnostic, and safety alternatives, challenge assumptions, and support the selection of the most robust technical and quality solution.

The position ensures that Lessons Learned, customer claim analysis, diagnostic data, plant feedback, field behavior, and technical risks are systematically translated into improved architecture standards, process compliance, prevention actions, diagnostic requirements, validation methods, and quality gates.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead proactive analysis of customer claims, warranty data, diagnostic reports, plant defects, launch issues, and connected‑vehicle feedback to identify electrical architecture, diagnostic, and system‑behavior risk patterns.
• Ensure design integrity for electrical architecture, diagnostic strategy, and functional safety by verifying that standards, engineering rules, release processes, safety work‑product expectations, diagnostic requirements, quality checkpoints, and expected deliverables are consistently applied and achieved.
• 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.

Operational Area Focus

• Electrical Architecture: network topology, ECU functional allocation, power distribution, grounding strategy, wake‑up/sleep behavior, signal integrity, communication robustness, architecture standards, and scalability.
• Diagnostic Strategy: DTC maturity, fault detection logic, diagnostic coverage, troubleshooting effectiveness, guided diagnostics, service documentation, validation evidence, and repair‑cost optimization.
• Functional Safety: safety concept consistency, hazard‑related failure management, degraded modes, safe‑state strategy, traceability, safety work products, verification evidence, and review milestone achievement.
• System Integration: interaction between hardware, software, wiring, power management, cybersecurity, diagnostics, functional safety deliverables, and service procedures.
• Field Performance: customer symptom analysis, no‑trouble‑found reduction, remote diagnostic data usage, early detection of systemic issues, Lessons Learned deployment, and prevention of repeat repairs.

Basic Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• A minimum of 8 years of engineering experience.
• Strong automotive E/E systems background, preferably 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.
• Ability to assess design integrity by verifying standards compliance, process adherence, deliverable maturity, review evidence, diagnostic readiness, safety work‑product completeness, field feedback integration, and cross‑functional action closure.
• Experience working with Systems Engineering, Software, Hardware, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality, Technical Centers, Customer Care, and Service Engineering.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office tools and ability to work with STLA tools such as PLM, Quantic, Lessons Learned, Bulletin, Teamcenter, and Enovia.
• Project management capability, including prioritization, governance, escalation, action‑plan tracking, and decision preparation.

Expected Profile

• Accountable, proactive, autonomous, structured, and target‑oriented.
• Strong systems‑thinking mindset with the ability to work closely with Engineering, verify standards, challenge alternatives constructively, and support the selection of the best technical and quality solution.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to synthesize complex system issues for management decision‑making.
• Fact‑based problem‑solving mindset with strong analytical capability and attention to operational execution.
• Ability to challenge assumptions constructively while maintaining cross‑functional alignment, governance discipline, and urgency.
• Interest in applying digital and AI‑enabled methods to improve quality analysis, diagnostic effectiveness, field monitoring, and decision‑making.