Sr. ePowertrain Product Platform Engineer

Dana Canada Corp.; Maumee (OH); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Dana is seeking an experienced Platform Definition Lead in Maumee, OH to drive ePropulsion platform targets, architectures, and cross-domain trade studies for powertrain platforms. You will own system interfaces, lead validation activities, and collaborate with Advanced Engineering to mature concepts into prototypes for platform adoption.

The role requires a mechanical/electrical engineering background and 7+ years in powertrain, with strong leadership across teams to enable design reviews and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or related discipline; master’s degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define platform targets and a continuous-improvement roadmap aligned with product strategy and customer value.
• Develop scalable system architectures and lead cross-domain trade studies balancing performance, efficiency, durability, cost, packaging, manufacturability, safety, cybersecurity, and reuse.
• Apply structured system risk methods to drive architecture, requirements, mitigation, and leadership decisions.
• Own platform-level requirements and interfaces across domains, ensuring alignment from architecture through system integration.
• Lead performance, durability, and cross-domain analysis for high-voltage powertrain architectures.
• Coordinate CAD, CAE, and system-modeling studies for concept assemblies and subassemblies to resolve interface issues and guide design directions.
• Lead system integration and verification activities in test-cell or vehicle environments with traceability to requirements and risks.
• Work with Advanced Engineering to mature concepts into prototypes for platform adoption.
• Own system-level risk and change management and elevate residual risk with evidence and recommendations.
• Lead internal platform design reviews and support customer design reviews to apply platform requirements and reuse strategies.

Skills

Powertrain engineering

System engineering

Design

Simulation

Testing

Controls

Embedded software

Product integration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or related discipline

Master’s degree preferred

7+ years of powertrain or ePowertrain experience

Advanced knowledge in systems integration, mechanical design, product validation

Proficient in leadership, modeling, architecture, functional safety, FEA/CFD

Tools

Electrical hardware

Embedded software

Cybersecurity basics

Job description

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Maumee, OH, US, 43537

Requisition: 67317

Dana is a global leader in the supply of highly engineered driveline, sealing, and thermal-management technologies that improve the efficiency and performance of vehicles with both conventional and alternative-energy powertrains. Serving two primary markets – passenger vehicle and commercial truck equipment – Dana provides the world's original-equipment manufacturers and the aftermarket with local product and service support through a network of nearly 100 engineering, manufacturing, and distribution facilities.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Platform Definition

• Partner with the ePropulsion product segment champion to define platform targets, priorities, and a continuous-improvement roadmap aligned with product strategy and customer value.
• Develop scalable system architectures and lead cross-domain trade studies that balance performance, efficiency, durability, cost, packaging, manufacturability, safety, cybersecurity, and reuse.
• Apply structured system risk methods, such as FMEA, HARA, and TARA as applicable, to drive architecture, requirements, mitigation, and leadership decisions.
• Own platform-level requirements and interfaces across domains, ensuring alignment from architecture through system integration.

Platform Execution, Integration, and Validation

• Lead performance, durability, and cross-domain analysis for architectures that may include high-voltage motors, inverters, controllers, thermal systems, and single- or multi-speed gearboxes.
• Initiate and coordinate CAD, CAE, and system-modeling studies for concept assemblies and subassemblies; use evidence to resolve interface issues and select robust design directions.
• Define and lead system integration and verification activities in test-cell, vehicle, or other customer-representative environments. Ensure results are traceable to requirements, risks, reliability targets, and applicable regulations.
• Work with Advanced Engineering to identify high-value technologies and mature selected concepts into integrated proof-of-concept prototypes suitable for platform adoption.
• Own system-level risk and change management. Assess cross-domain impacts, maintain decision and baseline traceability, and elevate residual risk with clear evidence and recommendations.
• Lead internal platform design reviews and support customer-specific design reviews so launch programs apply platform requirements, interfaces, and reuse strategies consistently.

Technical Leadership without Direct Authority

• Provide overall platform direction to a cross-functional technical team without direct reporting responsibility. Establish clarity, build trust, create shared accountability, and align specialists around system outcomes.
• Enable strong, independent business-unit application engineering teams to reuse the platform through clear integration documentation, design constraints, and support for customer-funded customization.

Education and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or related discipline; master’s degree preferred
• 7+ years of powertrain or ePowertrain engineering experience in any of these areas: system engineering, design, simulation, testing, calibration, controls, embedded software, electrical hardware, or product integration.
• Advanced knowledge in systems integration, mechanical design, product validation.
• Proficient knowledge of relationship-based leadership, full system modeling, systems architecture, functional safety, FEA/CFD simulation.
• Basic knowledge of embedded product cybersecurity, embedded SW, electronic HW

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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