Application Engineer (Safety)

Overview:

This role is part of the passive safety division and helps design passenger critical safety systems.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the given product specifications, requirements and derivation of possible solutions in coordination with application design and core engineering.
• Product definition for the appropriate customer projects together with project management.
• Determine the necessary development capacities, cost together with design, testing and prototyping.
• Take responsible of design quality management tool for components and system like FMEA, FTA, DRBFM and etc...
• Coordinate and lead customer design review of product development based on change points and failure mode.
• Negotiate and discuss design changes based on technical design background and test results review with customer.
• Clarification and definition of test plans for internal / external with the customer.
• Develop, prioritize and supervise action items and close action items with strategic thinking in a global team environment for engineering.
• Lead and create technical presentations including test report and analysis to customer in cooperation with global team members.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
• 5-7 years of application engineering design experience in the automotive industry
• Successful completion of projects; experience in intercultural leadership
• Good communicative, interpersonal and technical skills
• Knowledge about project management tools
• Fluent in Japanese/English