Senior Engineering Manager, Brake Controls SW & Vehicle Apps

Job Description

Job Description

About the Role

HL Mando is seeking an experienced engineering leader to manage the Brake Controls, Software, and Vehicle Application team supporting advanced electronic braking systems. This role is responsible for leading all regional program activities related to Integrated Dynamic Brake (IDB/E-Boost), Motor-on-Caliper (MoC), and electromechanical braking technologies, ensuring successful delivery aligned with customer, OEM, and global engineering requirements.

The ideal candidate will serve as both a technical leader and customer-facing program lead, driving software integration, vehicle application, validation, tuning, and launch support activities while collaborating closely with global engineering teams, including headquarters in Korea.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all aspects of the IDB program is on time, on target and no defects while meeting Mando and OEM program requirements/specifications.
• Act as main customer interface and interface to Mando Korea IDB team.
• Act as a regional technical leader that communicates status and technical issues with the customer.
• Communicate with other regions on IDB related issues and to core teams in Korea. Establish and maintain a relationship with customers based on trust and transparency.
• Communicate with customers to gather market intel and leads for future business opportunities.
• Manage a team to meet all program goals with on time deliveries. Support the team by periodically reviewing data to ensure progress and goal are being met. Identify if additional support is required from other regions. Assist with acquiring all tools and hardware required.
• Assist with ABS/TCS/ESC tuning Engineers and provide feedback to customer subjective and objective performance requirements. Work with Engineers and Software team to communicate tuning status and assist tuning related issues.
• Work together with H/W and S/W design teams, coordinating efforts to complete requirement analysis and respond to customer, complying with the requirements that can be met and negotiating exceptions for the S/W requirements that cannot be met.
• Collaborate with electrical engineers and S/W design engineers, coordinate efforts to prepare materials and support technical review with customer.
• Support design engineers in obtaining customer information for electrical design requirements and S/W development.
• Work with Sr. S/W Engineer to create, maintain and track S/W development and release timing, for the engineering deliverables (such as vehicle level releases) and work with application team on supporting manufacturing deliverables for the program.
• Conduct open issues and PDT meetings: create, track and maintain open issues list and collaborate with TPM on efforts to close open issues.
• Collaborate with H/W and S/W design team contributing to efforts to collect information needed for each gate review and approval, with help and support from the design engineer.
• Support functional safety engineer for customer Functional Safety peer reviews about S/W features and Safety design concepts at each phase.
• Support plant test machine algorithm and test method as S/W point of view. Provide technical support to Customer plant when they prepare a production. Investigate warranty issues and do initial check the returned part to help quality team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering.
• Minimum of 10 years of automotive product engineering experience working in product development environment with OEM customer interaction with preferred focus on Electronic Braking Systems (Electrical Parking Brake, Motor on Caliper, Electronic Stability Control, E-Boost, ABS).
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in management or technical leadership position.
• Familiarity with Vector products, in house programming and diagnostic S/W and how to set up, run and root cause instrumentation issues during testing, tuning and validation.
• Proven leadership skills with the ability to engage and drive team performance.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills and the ability to connect academic knowledge with practical problems.
• Proficiency in MS Office.
• Strong communication skills (verbal, written, listening).
• Solid judgment (creative, problem-solver, sound decision maker).
• Good planning skills.
• Ability to work with multiple internal departments to ensure on-time delivery of work.
• Ability to solve and deal with a variety of personnel and problems.
• Ability to work in a busy, fast-paced environment, often under time constraints.
• Proficiency in recommending and driving enhancements to work areas and process inputs/outputs.

Legal Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years of age due to federal labor law requirements.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Supervisory Responsibility: Yes

Working Conditions

• This position typically operates in an office environment.
• Occasional domestic and international travel may be required for training sessions, testing reviews, customer and supplier visits and colloquiums.

Compensation and Benefits

Competitive Salary commensurate with experience. Benefits package includes health, dental & vision insurance, life insurance and other supplemental benefits, 401(k) plan, paid time off, and professional development opportunities.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

HL Mando is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or disability status.