Responsibilities & Key Deliverables

To meet current and upcoming vehicle safety regulations and NCAP in India, Europe and Australia relative to vehicle structure, Adult and child occupant protection, Pedestrian safety and Active Safety for current and new M and M products including e-vehicles with a specific focus on:
• Executing overall vehicle safety performance. (Frontal, Side, Pedestrian, Child safety and Active safety)
• Preparing Statement of Requirements (SoR) for vehicle safety system for a vehicle project for passive and active safety.
• Creating and maintaining vehicle safety systems development plan for target markets and for target safety performance.
• Providing objective based direction to the vehicle safety, simulation, design and testing teams in the project.
• Interacting with passive and active safety system related vendors and test organizations to ensure the vehicle meet the set safety targets for passive and active safety.
• Addressing possible conflicts and offering trade-offs between various vehicle sub-systems to achieve optimum test performance for passive and active safety.
• Creating crash test plan and vehicle and sled test matrix for a project.
• Single point contact for all vehicle passive and active safety topics in all system team meetings

Other Requirements
• Passive safety system integration including Restraint systems, Impact Sensors and airbag ECU.
• Crashworthiness
• In-depth Accident investigations.
• High voltage e-Vehicles safety performance management
• Airbag ECU calibration
• Passive safety performance management.
• Active safety system integration including RADAR, Sensors, CAMERA.
• Active safety performance management.
Behavioural
• Ability to handle Cross functional team of other system engineers (BiW, Chassis, Trims, Seats, Electrical and Electronics etc)
• Inter personal Skills
• Out of Box Thinking
• Excellent Communication skills
• Exposure of working in Cross Functional Teams.
• Conflict Resolution.
E-vehicle Passive safety:
• Hands of experience on e-Vehicles safety performance management.
• Experience on defining sensing system for voltage cut-off,
• Experience on safety assessment with detail understating of methods, procedure and challenges involved in e-vehicles safety compliance.
Technical: Passive Safety:
• Hands on experience on designing vehicles that meet Crashworthiness (Frontal, Side, Pedestrian, Rear etc) for regulations and consumer tests for India and Europe with deep understanding of Vehicle Crashworthiness fundamentals.
• Experience in developing and setting up target for vehicle Safety system performance for aggregate systems e.g. Body, Chassis, Trims, Seats and other aggregates.
• Experience in Restraint System Integration (Airbags, Seat belts), impact sensors and airbag ECU.
• Experience in optimisation of Restraint systems in achieving safety performance targets Global NCAP, EuroNCAP, US NCAP, IIHS etc.
• Airbag ECU calibration and trade-offs.
• Knowledge of crash and occupant simulation, vehicle and component level testing, data analysis and test result interpretation.
• Ability to identify root cause and propose multiple options to meet the target safety performance.
• Ability to create Safety Upfront design guidelines
• Basic awareness of CAD and Team centre release process.
• Basic awareness of Barrier / Sled testing.
• Passive safety system integration including Restraint systems, Impact Sensors and airbag ECU.

Experience

10 to 12 Years

Industry Preferred

Qualifications

BE/B.Tech

General Requirements