D&R Engineer, Release and Compliance

Were ALTEN Technology USA an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to lifefrom advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3000 experts across North America we partner with leading companies in aerospace medical devices robotics automotive commercial vehicles EVs rail and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group57000 engineers in 30 countrieswe deliver across the entire product development cycle from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA youll collaborate on some of the worlds toughest engineering challenges supported by mentorship career growth opportunities and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued supported and inspired to grow.

Workplace: On-site 4 days per week. Friday Remote.
Location: Long Beach CA

You will own the release and compliance backbone for our next generation interior display and infotainment hardware. The team designs like a consumer electronics group. You are the person who carries that work through our formal engineering process without slowing it down and who translates requirements that were never written for a vehicle into requirements a vehicle program can accept.

Responsibilities
Release parts in FEDEBOM and WERS across the product lifecycle using FEDE and WERS as the master program BOM including key attribute data for all parts
Author and drive ECOs ECRs and change actions to closure including effectivity interchangeability and disposition of prototype inventory
Support the Change Control Meeting serve as the interface to program change control and write change requests gathering the required inputs from suppliers and internal teams
Audit and maintain the BOM with correct part levels and usage through prototype builds and post Job 1 including surrogate to real BOM conversion and CAD to BOM alignment
Translate team and supplier requirements into Engineering Requirements and Engineering Specifications in FEDE including display and infotainment requirements that do not map cleanly to existing ES
Identify validation durability and functional test requirements per ER and ES and build and maintain the DVP through the FEDE DVP dashboard
Author and drive Compliance Demonstration Plans and Reports converting test results into accepted compliance evidence and own traceability from requirement to test to evidence
Own the release calendar and close requirement release and compliance gaps ahead of milestone gates
Coach engineers coming from a consumer electronics background through our process

Required Qualifications
BSME BSEE or systems engineering equivalent 5 years in design release change management or validation and compliance on hardware that shipped
Demonstrated ownership of a BOM through a full prototype build cycle into production including personally driving change actions to closure
PLM and BOM release experience in FEDE and FEDEBOM or an equivalent system: Siemens Teamcenter PTC Windchill Dassault Enovia Oracle Agile PLM SAP PLM Arena or Propel
Formal change and release control experience in WERS or an equivalent process: Engineering Work Orders at GM ECNs in Teamcenter Warp Drive at Tesla an internal OEM release system or ECO and ECR workflow inside Windchill or Teamcenter in aerospace or medical devices
Requirements management experience in FEDE or in IBM DOORS or DOORS Next Siemens Polarion Jama Connect or Codebeamer
Validation and compliance documentation experience producing Compliance Demonstration Plans and Reports or the equivalent: AIAG DVP&R homologation and type approval dossiers FMVSS self certification packages DO-160 certification plans and qualification reports or medical device design verification reports and Design History File content
Ability to read and synthesize complex technical and regulatory documents into actionable engineering requirements
Working knowledge of automotive environmental and electrical validation: thermal vibration EMC ESD and occupant safety requirements where displays are involved
Comfort being the only person in the room who knows how the process works and the persistence to chase engineers for closure

Salary Range
$140000 - 155000
The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including but not limited to location the candidates combination of job-related knowledge qualifications skills education training and experience

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability protected veteran status age genetic information or pregnancy.

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