Senior Software Design Release Engineer

The Software Design Release Engineer represents an exciting and challenging leadership position related to the development and launch of embedded controller products.

Is project management your strong suit?

As a SW DRE you will be responsible for creating, communicating, and leading various types of ‘product’ plans and ensuring the on-time delivery of an embedded controller and/or its sub-components.

The role requires a balanced mix of technical engineering skills and leadership skills, where you will have a high level of responsibility with limited formal authority, providing excellent opportunities for developing and honing the skill of influencing others!

This role can be a good way to explore the transition from more technical roles to more managerial type skills and is perfect to develop the following competencies (ref.

Career Development Website):

• Project Management - Considers project goals, makes plans, identifies stakeholders, and marshals resources to meet project deadlines.
• Informative Communication - Provides relevant information to individuals for decision-making purposes.
• Persuasive Communication - Sells an idea or changes perspectives through oral or written communication.
• Relationship Management - Develops and maintains constructive and cooperative working relationships with others.
• Negotiations - Engages in a collaborative dialogue in order to reach an agreement that satisfies the joint interests of involved parties.
• Delegation - Empowers others to take action and make decisions for both routine and important tasks.

Experiences to be gained/practiced through this role include:

• Management: Program and project management experience
• Exposure: Experience working on cross-functional initiatives
• Technical: Software, hardware, and calibration integration
• Leadership: Experience leading diverse, global, and cross functional teams
• Interpersonal: Change management

What You’ll do:

• Contribute ideas to a culture and organization that continues to try new ways of working, managing programs, and collaborating with product engineering and vehicle manufacturing.
• Ensure that the product development and release plans are created and implemented in alignment to engineering standard work for the purpose of on-time high quality delivery of VMEC embedded control products.