Vehicle Function Owner & Requirements Engineer – Systems Lead

ALTEN Technology USA; Auburn Hills (MI); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

ALTEN Technology USA is seeking a Vehicle Function Owner / Requirements Engineer to define and manage vehicle functional requirements from concept through development and validation.

The role suits a Systems Engineer or Requirements Engineer with automotive product development experience, who can translate feature intent into verifiable requirements and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure correct implementation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related technical discipline.
• 2+ years of automotive engineering experience.
• Experience in systems engineering, requirements engineering or product development.
• Experience with DOORS, DOORS Next, Codebeamer, Jama, or similar tools.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to work with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the functional definition of assigned vehicle features.
• Translate vehicle and customer expectations into functional and system requirements.
• Define expected system behavior, operating conditions, performance, and constraints.
• Develop and maintain requirements in accordance with automotive systems engineering processes.
• Decompose high-level vehicle functions into detailed system requirements.
• Analyze changes to features and determine impacts on existing requirements.
• Review requirements for completeness, consistency, clarity, and verifiability.
• Establish and maintain requirements traceability.
• Work with Software, Hardware, Systems, Architecture, and Validation teams to resolve requirement issues.
• Investigate system and software validation issues and determine if updates are required.
• Participate in technical and requirements reviews.
• Support engineering change requests and assess downstream system impacts.
• Identify technical risks, requirement gaps, and functional conflicts.
• Provide technical clarification regarding feature intent and expected vehicle behavior.

Skills

Automotive engineering

Systems engineering

Requirements engineering

Traceability

Cross-functional teamwork

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related discipline

Tools

DOORS

DOORS Next

CodeBeamer

Jama

Job description

ALTEN Technology USA is seeking a Vehicle Function Owner / Requirements Engineer to define and manage vehicle functional requirements from concept through development and validation.

The role suits a Systems Engineer or Requirements Engineer with automotive product development experience, who can translate feature intent into verifiable requirements and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure correct implementation.