Product Engineering Manager

Job Title: Product Engineering Manager

Job Location: Southfield, MI

What we offer:

VeoneerSafety Systemsis the world leader in Automotive Electronic Safety Systems. Veoneer’s scalable, best-in-class restraint control systems are mitigating the effects of a car crash. To date, we have delivered more than 1 billion devices to car manufacturers globally.

Veoneer Safety Systems has an international and collaborative team of 2,700 employees in 11 countries. We empower our people and are dedicated to their professional development and growth*.*

Veoneer Safety Systems – Protect Everyone in Every Crash.

What you'll do:

The Product Engineering Manager leads a cross‑functional engineering organization—spanning software, electrical, systems, mechanical, safety/security, product assurance, and manufacturing—to deliver advanced automotive RCS products. The role ensures disciplined execution of an embedded‑software–intensive development lifecycle, aligning technical direction, customer requirements, and cross‑team collaboration. As the primary technical interface to customers, the PEM is accountable for program planning, technical quality, delivery performance, and continuous improvement from concept through production.

• Lead Integrated Product Development: Provide strategic and day‑to‑day leadership across all engineering disciplines to deliver RCS products in alignment with VPDS/APDS. Establish program direction, integrated plans, and risk mitigation strategies that enable coordinated, on‑time execution.
• Ensure Requirements, Architecture & Validation Discipline: Drive clarity and traceability of customer and internal requirements. Oversee system and software architectural decisions and ensure verification and validation activities support product performance, safety, and manufacturability.
• Guide Embedded Software Execution: Provide leadership across the full software lifecycle—including architecture/design reviews, implementation quality, integration, test readiness, and release planning—with attention to AUTOSAR, diagnostics, RTOS/bootloader fundamentals, and microcontroller platform constraints.
• Integrate Systems, Hardware & Manufacturing: Align software and hardware interfaces, timing expectations, and safety concepts. Promote design‑for‑manufacture/test and collaborate with manufacturing teams to ensure a smooth transition into production.
• Champion Safety, Security & Quality Compliance: Ensure adherence to ASPICE, ISO 26262, and cybersecurity expectations. Review key safety and quality deliverables (FMEA, FTA, WCA, traceability artifacts) and lead corrective actions driven by program metrics and audits.
• Coordinate Customers & Global Partners: Serve as the primary technical liaison to customers and suppliers. Provide transparent updates, resolve issues collaboratively, and drive coordinated delivery across global engineering centers.
• Develop People & Organizational Capability: Set performance objectives, lead regular technical and development dialogues, manage resource planning, and mentor engineering leads. Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

What you'll bring:

• Degree in Software, Computer, or Electrical Engineering with 7-10+ years’ experience in embedded automotive and safety‑critical product development.
• Proven leadership of cross‑functional teams integrating software, hardware, systems, and manufacturing.
• Strong grounding in embedded software fundamentals, including C, RTOS concepts, diagnostics, AUTOSAR, microcontrollers, and automotive communication interfaces.
• Knowledge of ASPICE/CMMI, ISO 26262, ALM/CM tools, and structured problem‑solving methodologies.
• Effective communicator with experience engaging OEM customers, global teams, and suppliers while managing technical risks and priorities.

Travel:

Limited domestic and international travel to customer sites, supplier facilities, and manufacturing locations.