Senior ECU Architect: Automotive Systems & Safety

Synstack Technologies; Auburn Hills (MI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Synstack Technologies is seeking an ECU Lead Architect to drive end-to-end definition, integration, and governance of complex automotive ECUs, including HPCs, ZCUs, and Domain Controllers.

You will translate vehicle requirements into hardware/software architectures, ensuring safety, cybersecurity, network, and performance alignment across engineering teams and suppliers. Strong AUTOSAR, ISO 26262, and cybersecurity know-how are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, Embedded Systems, or related discipline.
• Significant experience in automotive ECU, system, hardware, or software architecture for complex embedded systems.
• Proven experience delivering HPC, Zonal Controller, Domain Controller, or other safety-critical automotive platforms.
• Strong knowledge of AUTOSAR Classic and/or Adaptive, diagnostics, networking and service-oriented architectures.
• Experience in ISO 26262 Functional Safety and ISO/SAE 21434 Cybersecurity Engineering.
• Experience performing FMEA, safety analyses, architectural trade-off studies, and technical risk assessments.
• Strong knowledge of CAN/CAN-FD, Automotive Ethernet, SOME/IP and DoIP.
• Experience with requirements and lifecycle management tools such as DOORS NG, Polarion, Jama, Jira, Git or equivalent solutions.
• Strong technical leadership, problem-solving, communication, negotiation and stakeholder management skills.
• Professional proficiency in written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and consolidate functional, safety, cybersecurity, performance, and regulatory requirements allocated to the ECU.
• Establish and maintain the ECU technical baseline and ensure bidirectional traceability between requirements, architecture, implementation, verification, and release deliverables.
• Define, maintain, and govern the ECU hardware, software, safety, cybersecurity, communication, diagnostics, and deployment architectures.
• Own ECU pinout architecture and ensure consistency between hardware, software, sensors, actuators, network connectivity, and vehicle integration constraints.
• Lead technical reviews, architecture reviews, design reviews, and technical risk assessments.
• Coordinate technical convergence across Hardware, Software, Safety, Cybersecurity, Network, Validation, Quality, and Vehicle Integration disciplines.
• Ensure alignment with program quality and industrialization milestones and product development governance processes.

Skills

Automotive ECU architecture

Embedded systems

AUTOSAR Classic/Adaptive

Cybersecurity & safety

ISO 26262 knowledge

Requirements engineering

System decomposition

FMEA & risk analysis

CAN/CAN-FD, Automotive Ethernet

Leadership & stakeholder mgmt

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in Electrical Eng / Electronics Eng / CS / Embedded Systems

Tools

DOORS NG

Polarion

Jama

Jira

Git

Job description

Synstack Technologies is seeking an ECU Lead Architect to drive end-to-end definition, integration, and governance of complex automotive ECUs, including HPCs, ZCUs, and Domain Controllers.

You will translate vehicle requirements into hardware/software architectures, ensuring safety, cybersecurity, network, and performance alignment across engineering teams and suppliers. Strong AUTOSAR, ISO 26262, and cybersecurity know-how are essential.