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Title:  Product Engineering Manager

Career at Bourns:

If working for an organization with a long history of technological innovation and high advancement potential in a supportive, collaborative, and positive work environment are top considerations for your next career move, then you need to look at the opportunities at Bourns.

Bourns was founded 75 years ago with the guiding principles of providing breakthrough technology solutions, high-quality products, responsive service, and exceptional value. Those principles still hold true today and have instilled a culture that is committed to excellence and ethical operations. As a leading provider of advanced components for power conversion, circuit protection, and motion control sensing solutions, Bourns employs more than 9,000 people in 21 countries and operates 17 manufacturing centers and 15 R&D facilities. Our customers and partners rely on Bourns to meet strict design requirements and satisfy international standards in a broad range of industries and applications. We achieve this stature because Bourns employees excel in the development of new products and continuous improvement processes that keep the company a global leader in delivering outstanding service.

Job Description:

Basic Function
The Engineering Manager leads the Engineering organization with clear ownership for sensor product architecture, requirement flow-down, and system integration. This role provides daily leadership, technical direction, resource planning, and ensures high-quality engineering execution across all customer programs.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities
1) Engineering Leadership & People Management
- Lead, mentor, and performance-manage a team of systems and development engineers.
- Establish engineering standards, methods, and governance for requirements, sensor architecture, interfaces, and system verification.
- Ensure effective workload planning, staffing, hiring, and skill development.
- Drive continuous improvement, structured problem-solving, and technical excellence.

2) Ownership of Systems Engineering Discipline
- Own the system V-model, system specification, and requirements traceability from RFQ through SOP.
- Guide the team in decomposing system requirements into HW/SW/Mechanical interfaces.
- Oversee system-level risk assessments, design reviews, and engineering documentation.

3) Product Architecture Governance
- Work and collaborate with the global Engineering teams on the definition and updating of the sensor product architecture and, maintain, and communicate architecture baselines across the product life cycle.
- Ensure architecture decisions are implemented across  the various Engineering disciplines, and through to the Supply chain.
- Align architecture to performance, safety, cost, manufacturability, and timing objectives.

4) Functional Safety & Quality Responsibilities
- Oversee creation of safety concepts (TSC) and safety analyses (FTA, FMEDA, CCA) per ISO 26262.
- Maintain alignment between system safety goals, DFMEA, and verification strategy.
- Champion adherence to ASPICE/IATF-relevant engineering process requirements.

5) Cross‑Functional Collaboration & Customer Interaction
- Act as engineering interface to customers on systems architecture, specifications, technical discussions, and issue resolution.
- Communicate engineering status, decisions, and risks to leadership and program management.
- Collaborate tightly with HW, SW, Mechanical design, Test, PMO, and Manufacturing Engineering.

Qualification Requirements

- Fluency in English (written and spoken) is essential for collaboration with global teams
- Bachelor’s/Master’s in Engineering; advanced degree preferred.
- 8–12+ years systems engineering experience; 3–6+ years engineering leadership.
- Strong cross-domain understanding (HW, SW, mechanical design, system architecture, functional safety).

Skills & Competencies
- Strong leadership presence, prioritization ability, and decision-making

- Experience in automotive sensing (Position, Speed, Steering) is an advantage
- Proficient in ISO 26262, DFMEA, requirements management, change management

- Experience and Prototype validation DVP/PVP
- Tools: Polarion, APIS IQ RM, standard SE toolchains.



Success Metrics
- Quality of system architecture and specifications.
- On-time delivery of engineering and project milestones.
- Requirements coverage & traceability performance.
- Audit/safety assessment results.
- Team capability, retention, and engagement.

Travel
- Occasional travel to customers, suppliers, and international Bourns sites.

Bourns is an equal opportunity employer. At Bourns, we are committed to treating all Applicants and Employees fairly based on their abilities, achievements, and experience without regard to race, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification protected by law. Qualified candidates must be able to perform the essential functions of this position satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodation. Disclaimer: this job post is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all essential responsibilities, skills, tasks, or requirements associated with this position. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the position posted, the Company reserves the right to modify or change the essential functions of the job based on business necessity.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran

If you are results-oriented, have the drive to find industry-leading ways to meet ongoing technological challenges, and go the extra mile to maximize customer relationships, then we invite you to apply to join the Bourns team. 
Custom Field 1:  ¥ 360000 - ¥ 562500

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