System Requirements Engineer - Functional Safety

System Requirements Engineer – Functional Safety

At GKN Automotive, we are passionate about building Systems that solves the most complex challenges in the Automotive industry. We’ve spent more than 20 years at the forefront of innovation, working with most major OEMs to deliver Electronic Control Units (ECUs). Our eDrive technology is now powering over two million vehicles on the road today. The rising demand for EVs has led us to increase the range and volume of our products to our global customers.

GKN Automotive Bengaluru Private Limited, India: 

At our Bengaluru Technology Centre, our culture is centred around innovation. We’ve invested heavily in developing our state-of-the-art engineering lab to ensure our teams have the tools and resources they need to succeed and thrive in our environment.  Working on new product development, our Engineers have the chance to build multi-discipline expertise supporting projects across the full lifecycle, from design through implementation and validation.  Our culture is open and collaborative, and employees regularly have an opportunity to engage with Leaders, provide ideas and work to develop these to become a reality. It’s a place where our multi-discipline teams’ partner, collaborate, and learn from each other. Career development is supported by relevant, sponsored technical training, coaching, and access to self-driven training across a wide range of topics covering hard and soft skills.

The Role: 

We are seeking a System Requirements Engineer with capabilities and experience in Functional Safety to work with our global Functional Safety team and support GKN ePowertrain AWD/eDrive Product development.

Key responsibilities include: 

• Apply reuse strategy through managing concerned requirements
• Lead and execute System Requirements Analysis
• Lead reviews across domains (SWE, HWE, MEE) concerning System Requirements and ensure alignment with system architectural specification 
• Report requirement analysis status (baseline, dashboards, queries and metrics)
• Support Lead Systems Engineer in planning and product release
• Support System Test Manager in planning for integration and qualification test
• Analyse System Requirements 
• Create and update the requirements specification for eDrive and AWD systems
• Create baseline, dashboards, reports, queries and metrics 
• Ensure alignment with system architectural specification
• Ensure quality of the System Requirements Specification as well as the Subsystem Requirements Specifications
• Establish bidirectional traceability between stakeholder requirements and System Requirements in Requirements Management Tool
• Execute change management for requirements changes
• Identify and analyse System Requirements via use cases and in line with system architectural design
• Identify System Requirements
• Support configuration management and requirements elicitation
• Support winning new business (analysis of RFI / RFQ and compliance)
• Transform the defined stakeholder requirements into a set of System Requirements that will guide the design of the system

Who you’ll be: 

This Role adds value by gathering and managing requirements in a change-controlled environment, for the life of the programme, in-line with the ASPICE® compliant GKN engineering processes for eDrive and AWD systems. Ensures traceability to stakeholder requirements and between (sub)-System Requirements.

Essential Skills

• Degree: Bachelors in engineering (Mechanical / Electrical / Electronics / Mechatronics) / Bachelor in Physics or similar
• 3 years of experience as i.e. System Requirements Engineer or similar
• 1 year of experience in analysing requirements
• 1 year of experience as Test / Calibration Engineer or similar
• Requirements engineering fundamentals i.e. IREB® Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering - Foundation Level
• Knowledge of the relevant ISO26262(2018) and Automotive SPICE is mandatory
  • Personal certification within ISO26262 (e.g. AFSP) is of benefit
• System Engineering Concepts
• Any one of the Failure detection and analysis topics covered under Systems Engineering

Tool Skills

• PTC Integrity
• Enterprise Architect

Language Skills 

Must be fluent in English 

Travel Requirements 

Local Infrequent

Our Offer: 

This is an excellent opportunity to work at the forefront of technology and innovation across the fast-paced Electric Vehicle market supporting new product development across all phases of the product lifecycle. We offer an excellent compensation and benefits package, including a flexible working culture, attractive car lease scheme, excellent annual leave allowances, medical insurance, creche allowances, and ongoing career progression and development support. 

Our people are at the heart of our success. If this opportunity excites you and you want to help drive innovation and change in our industry, we’d love to hear from you.

About GKN Automotive: 

GKN Automotive is a global leader in eDrive technologies, the architects of an electrified future. Our innovation, expertise and global footprint give us the ability to drive a sustainable future, delivering eDrive technologies, competitively and at scale. We have been inventing the future for 250 years. Our technologies and innovations made front-wheel drive cars possible and all-wheel drive systems more efficient. GKN Automotive is now at the forefront of the mass production of advanced, efficient systems for electrified vehicles.

Through continuous innovation and improvements in efficiency, performance and control systems we are collaborating with global automotive manufacturers, helping them produce the next generation of electrified vehicles. We are the go-to technology partner for leading electrified vehicle manufacturers, with the ability to tailor every eDrive solution, matched to our Driveline technologies.