AddressFor over 110 years Aston Martin has made the most exquisitely addictive performance sports cars.
But no one builds an Aston Martin on their own. Behind these legends and landmarks are hundreds of dreamers, darers and doers who make extraordinary happen, every single day. That's why the name of everyone who has ever worn our famous wings is inscribed on the wall of our factory.
As we embark on an exciting new era for the business, we need the very best people to write their own chapter on our journey to become the world's most desirable ultra-luxury British performance brand.
Join us.
Job Purpose:
The purpose of this role is to lead an infotainment product development team to create commodity strategy plans, deliver R&D and innovation projects to improve the design of those commodities. To create new design archetypes and deliver vehicle application projects.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
- Manage 5-year commodity strategy and get relevant new technologies to implementation ready within agreed Function budget, resource & timing.
- Create engineering guideline documents and archetypes for platform and non-platform engineered components.
- Work with application engineer & Product Cost Estimating to set platform commodity programme financial targets based on improved archetypes & strategic suppliers
- Define to application engineer resource requirements (internal & external) for platform commodities
- Ensure platform commodities achieve the programme's cascaded system level targets, supporting Concept reviews as required.
- Manage the SW delivery of all infotainment components.
- Lead technical discussions on all infotainment commodities.
- Deliver the programme QCWFT (quality, cost, weight, function and timing) requirements to the application engineer.
- Ensure that the commodity meets the Function plan (with the component suppliers), creating & managing recovery plans as required. Includes releasing platform components (BoM).
- Monitor internal & external resource utilisation to identify potential efficiency improvements for the next programme.
- Create & manage the platform commodity's virtual & physical DV plan.
- Ensures effective report writing to identify potential efficiency improvements for the next programme.
- Ensure that all platform concerns are robustly resolved & provide technical support for application concerns.
- Complete FESO documentation for platform commodities.
- Support UX teams to deliver SW on time for all projects.
- In depth technical understanding of Infotainment functions, vehicle architecture, CAN AUTOSAR, A2C, Automotive Ethernet.
- Support and manage teams to resolve field issues and support aftersales teams with escalation requests.
Qualification & Experience:
- Detailed knowledge of Infotainment systems and features by working as a lead / manager with an automotive OEM or supplier.
- Experience of delivering one of the following commodities: infotainment, audio, cluster & displays, antennas.
- Usage of requirements capture and issue tracking tools
- CAN tools - CANoE
- Understanding of LIN/CAN/Automotive Ethernet, A2C
- Understanding of electronics/software and hardware design
- Data analysis & report writing
- Significant experience in delivering Infotainment modules.
- Experience of delivery of multiple Infotainment projects.
- Proven record of delivering Electrical or Electronics commodities, including quality, cost, function, weight and timing. Experience of vehicle level system integration in terms of hardware and Software). Experience of software development processes and managing software delivery.
- Experience of defining and delivering infotainment systems, Navigation, Bluetooth and Media devices, Tuner and Infotainment HMI. Delivery experience on Infotainment OS system (windows, Linux, QNX, etc.).
- Extensive knowledge of automotive development systems e.g. releasing
- Experience of defining systems complying to NHTSA, driver distraction, functional safety, cyber security.
- Experience of managing ASIL A / ASIL B ECU's.
- Supplier management experience
- Complete knowledge of Product Development cycle from concept to launch completion
- Excellent technical engineering background and a comprehensive knowledge of using calculation and analysis to drive design.
- Excellent knowledge of automotive quality tools and processes.
- Extensive knowledge of the manufacturing processes to create the components or systems.
- Engineering degree or equivalent. Preferably Chartered Engineering status or equivalent.
Skills:
- Expert in CAN tools
- Competent in Microsoft Office toolset.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills at all levels
- Confident presenter
- Analytical
- Microsoft project experience is desirable
- Excellent financial management skills
- Strategic thinking
- Must be able to project manage and work collaboratively with a cross-functional team.
- Knowledge of Can and CAN based tools,
Belong at Aston Martin
We understand that the incredible beauty, craft and art that defines an Aston Martin comes from the inclusion of our amazing people.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs. We celebrate diversity and are seeking applicants who can bring something different. Please speak to us if there is anything you need to support making an application with us.
