Senior Engineer Infotainment (m/f/d)

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and delivery of premium infotainment solutions for next generation Lotus lifestyle vehicles.
• Take end to end ownership of multiple infotainment domains (e.g. navigation, phone projection, media, radio, audio, speech) and ensure delivery with suppliers.
• Manage and steer multiple suppliers and sub-suppliers
• Review, create and maintain infotainment system and design requirements.
• Define attributes for your domains and the overall infotainment system such as audio, sound quality, system performance, reception, reliability.
• Ensure compliance with market specific requirements and regulations (e.g. Europe, North America).
• Challenge the technical content and product definition under the aspects of performance and competitiveness. Identify gaps, propose improvement opportunities and drive their implementation.
• Support the definition of validation activities, review validation results and drive issue resolution internally and with suppliers.
• Ensure that launch quality is robust over lifetime and fulfilling customer expectations.
• Perform benchmark activities, analyse market and technology trends and present conclusions to the leadership.
• Contribute to setting up the global workshare with other Lotus and Geely entities.

Requirements

• Degree in electrical engineering, telecommunications, computer science or a related course of studies.
• 5-10 years of working experience in the infotainment field, preferably at an automotive OEM or Tier 1
• Experience as feature/product owner in the infotainment domain
• Technical expertise within multiple of the following infotainment domains: navigation, CarPlay/Android Auto, media, radio/tuner, audio, speech.

• Understanding of the overall infotainment domain, bringing a holistic view and awareness of the role of individual components and functionalities in the overall system context
• Experience in development, delivery, and certification of CarPlay and/or Android Auto is considered a strong advantage.
• Android Automotive knowledge is desirable.
• Experienced working with and managing external supplier(s)
• Launch exposure and having seen through at least one complete development lifecycle for an infotainment system or sub-domain.
• Awareness of market specific requirements for a global infotainment product rollout (e.g. Europe, North America, Asia).
• Enthusiasm and passion: self-motivated, solution driven and customer focused.
• High level of engagement to solve issues and drive resolution even outside of own working field.
• Excellent communicator with an open and structured mindset.
• High integrity and trust in all activities and communication.
• Flexible regarding travels to UK, Sweden, China and other countries if needed.
• Fluent in English.
• Driving license