Lead Engineer

General Motors

Sub-System Lead Engineer responsible for requirements and documentation in automotive systems development. Leading cross-functional collaboration for behavioral consistency and technical specifications.

Posted 6/25/2026full-timeMilford • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Create and maintain System Behavior Technical Specifications (System BTS) using Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) principles, ensuring customer impact, system intent, and cross-functional traceability are well understood.
Lead triad meetings with key stakeholders to ensure effective communication, timely decision-making, and continuous improvement throughout the development process.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship for PTMA system behavior, with particular focus on arbitration strategy, system integration, and behavioral consistency across domains.
Maintain interface requirements in DOORS/DNG and collaborate with Feature System Architects (FSAs), system engineers, and domain owners to ensure requirement structure, behavioral intent, and arbitration logic align with program objectives .
Define and maintain arbitration logic for competing against thermal demands, including prioritization rules, mode-based behavior, fault responses, and system-level coordination across affected domains.
Co-Own s system-level behavioral alignment between the Arbitration Domain, subsystem requirements, software implementation, and verification strategy.
Maintain technical communication with 3rd party suppliers for the Arbitration domain.
Participate in debugging and root causing issues observed in vehicle testing.
Create and maintain Solution FMEAs, Subsystem FMEAs, and AFMEAs (Algorithm) in the area of responsibility.
Support DFMEA and PFMEA development by collaborating with software and hardware teams to address failure modes.
Ensure awareness of hardware failures (Sev 9, 10) and their impact on arbitration behavior within the SSLE’s area of responsibility.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Software, Systems, or related fields).
5+ years of professional experience in automotive systems, controls, software, or requirements engineering, including experience with thermal management, system behavior definition, or cross-domain integration in BEV applications.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to make independent, high-impact decisions.
Experience with requirements engineering in automotive, aerospace, or related industries.
Knowledge of Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and MBSE principles.
Familiarity with Jira for managing software-related requirements.
Ability to facilitate cross-functional collaboration and lead discussions with stakeholders.
Experience with Agile methodologies and SAFe practices.
Strong documentation and communication skills to support a distributed, cross-functional team environment.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)requirements engineeringthermal managementsystem behavior definitioncross-domain integrationarbitration logicdebuggingFMEADFMEAPFMEA

Soft Skills

analytical skillsproblem-solving skillsindependent decision-makingcross-functional collaborationleadershipcommunication skillsdocumentation skills