Principal Systems Engineer
Role: Principal Systems Engineer
Ref: J5624
Job Type: Permanent
Industry: Automotive Engineering, Electronics Engineering
Area: UK - All, UK - North West
Location: North West, London
Job Description
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Role: Principal Systems Engineer
Company: Global automotive company
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: Competitive + bonus + final salary pension, + relocation
Location: North West, London
As Principal Systems Engineer with a leading 1st tier automotive supplier you will manage the development of complex real-time electronic control systems for use with diesel fuel injection equipment.
Responsibilities include:
The principal system engineer’s main activities will be drawn from, but not limited to, the following:
Technically Leading a project
Ability to develop independently a product (with adequate support from other teams)
Provide plans and report progress to Project Manager and Systems Manager
Manage a systems development team (when required)
Coach team members as necessary
System design
Capture and analyse customer requirement (this usually involves meetings with the customer)
Define and review system requirements including sensor/actuators and control strategies.
Model the system to verify the control strategy with the customer and the S/W team
Produce and review specifications allowing software engineers to forward engineer and test the intended production code.
Produce executable specifications using Matlab/Simulink and related toolsets
Support/ownership hazard analysis, FMEA and fault tree analysis.
Apply/reuse strategies developed by other groups to customer applications.
Interface with h/w team (PDD/CRD) in terms of customer requirements
Testing
Create and execute system level validation testing.
Participate in software review, debug and analysis
Support/organise use of resources for system testing and validation
Support production software test and validation.
The ideal candidate:
You will be educated to degree level within Electronics discipline
Experienced in an embedded application field.
Proven experience in developing real time systems.
Understanding of diesel application and associated fuel injection equipment
n.b. To apply for this role you must be able to live and work unrestricted in the UK. Should your application be successful, you will be contacted within the next 7 days.
Tiro Associates Ltd is a specialist Employment Agency and Employment Business assisting with both contract and permanent opportunities in the automotive, aerospace, electronics, engineering and manufacturing sectors. For details of all our current vacancies please refer to tiroassociates.com

