[Hiring] Senior Principal Discipline Engineer @Valeo

Role Description

We are looking for YOU as Senior Principal Discipline Engineer (m/f/d) for our location in Bietigheim. These challenges await you:

• Customer Liaison: Build strong bonds with OEMs in coordination with the Customer/Regional offices through technical expertise.
• Advanced System Analysis and Design: Develop technical expertise in the analysis of complex ADAS systems, including defining system architectures through structured analysis of System Use Cases.
• Governance, Standards & Intellectual Property: Establish and chair cross-domain expert committees to define and review cross-PL system solutions during complex RFIs/RFQs.
• SPP & Roadmap: Benchmark systems and E/E topologies, proposing innovative concepts for the Valeo System Roadmap and Strategic Product Planning (SPP).
• Leadership & Mentoring: Actively develop the team’s technical capabilities through line management or functional leadership, offering mentoring and challenging technical choices to ensure engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Engineering (or equivalent).
• Extensive experience in the development of complex ADAS systems and vehicle E/E architectures, including significant contributions to successful project awards.
• Experience with Valeo’s current key strategic partners is a plus.
• Experience in the development of IVI (Infotainment) products and related technologies.
• Proven track record in direct people management and leading cross-functional R&D projects.
• Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders, align organizations, and bridge silos.
• A systems-thinking mindset with the ability to develop a long-term product vision driven by customer needs.
• Strong networking skills across all levels of hierarchy and throughout a global organization.

Benefits

• Compensation package with performance-related salary components and company pension scheme (allowance).
• Scope to develop your own ideas as well as professional and personal development opportunities worldwide.
• Allowances for sports, health, pension scheme, canteen, JobRad, free employee parking spaces, regular employee events, and social support for a family-friendly environment.
• Working models that harmonize your professional and private life.
• Flat hierarchies and modern working methods provide you with an innovative working environment.
• We work together on the mobility trends of tomorrow.

Company Description

Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leaders in our businesses and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.

Being part of our team, you will join:

• One of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development.
• A multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration.
• More than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries, providing numerous opportunities for career growth.
• A business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact of its activities, ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development.