Senior Battery Systems Engineer: Architecture & Validation Lead

Our Next Energy; Novi (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Our Next Energy is seeking engineers to lead requirements elicitation and documentation for customer projects in Novi, MI. You will coordinate cross‑functional teams to develop complete system architecture and maintain traceability across the project lifecycle.

The role involves supporting integration tests, DFMEA development, and preparing customer presentations while ensuring manufacturability through collaboration with operations and suppliers.

Qualifications

• Experience elicitation and documenting customer requirements across projects.
• Ability to define system architecture with cross‑functional teams (E/E, hardware, software, ME).
• Maintain requirements traceability and support verification activities.

Responsibilities

• Gather and document customer requirements and cascade them to development teams.
• Develop system architecture with E/E, hardware, software and ME design teams.
• Create and maintain requirements traceability in company toolset.
• Support system integration testing plans and verification.
• Conduct/deliver in-vehicle and breadboard activities as needed.
• Ensure design consistency and resolve architecture issues across concepts.
• Assist with DFMEA and risk mitigation plans.
• Prepare customer presentations and document engineering specs.
• Perform physical testing on prototypes and analyze data.
• Lead root cause analyses and report findings to management.
• Collaborate with operations, manufacturing, and suppliers to ensure manufacturability.
• Verify requirements using appropriate software tools and processes.
• Work with internal and customer teams to improve processes.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

System architecture

Traceability

DFMEA

Tools

ALM tools

Job description

Our Next Energy is seeking engineers to lead requirements elicitation and documentation for customer projects in Novi, MI. You will coordinate cross‑functional teams to develop complete system architecture and maintain traceability across the project lifecycle.

The role involves supporting integration tests, DFMEA development, and preparing customer presentations while ensuring manufacturability through collaboration with operations and suppliers.