System Lead Engineer-Smart Cockpit Entertainment

The Opportunity  

We are Jaguar Land Rover, and we’re in Shanghai. We believe that all our customers deserve a great connected digital experience, and you have a chance to be a part of realising that vision. We’re on a journey to transform the digital future of our great brands, designing and building innovative systems and products for one of the world’s leading luxury automotive brands in new and exciting ways. 

We are building out a digital platform which is central to Jaguar Land Rover’s digital strategy.  The right candidate will have a central role to the development of this digital platform within the vehicle cockpit domain, how it grows and iterates over time, and how the teams that deliver it do to. Unsure of exactly what this means? Check out the award winning iconic Land Rover Defender, and look at the digital capabilities this vehicle has. The Cockpit team in China are gaining greater responsibility to deliver tailored and bespoke features and experiences to the most discerning of Chinese Customers. 

We’re looking for an System Engineer to facilitate, shape, and design our China Cockpit ecosystem delivery in JLR. You'll support the team in solving difficult problems, uncovering challenges, managing relationships, and ensuring our deliveries drive and exceed our standards e2e. 

This role is a unique opportunity to help define, support and grow a digital capability within cockpit at Jaguar Land Rover. You’ll be working closely with our multi-disciplined teams with opportunities to learn and enhance your career. You’ll have opportunities to contribute to the strategic direction of the products we deliver, as well as inspiring and influencing the wider organisation as we transform how Jaguar Land Rover builds and operates digital vehicles, together. 

What we value  

• Cross-functional, customer focussed approach  

• Dedication to Delivery, Engineering, UX/UI and Quality principles and practices  

• Teamwork, collaboration and effective communication  

• Self-improvement, team growth, resilience and positive spirit  

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities  

• Supporting product roadmap creation and strategy development 

• Being accountable for the technical excellence of technology integration across the China IVI Squad  

• Support and drive the integration solution delivery teams to develop solutions in line with architectural development for bespoke solutions 

• Overseeing and supporting the assessment of solution excellence to core KPI’s as well as independently rating and assessing solutions 

• Maximising value from solutions through technical sustainability, longevity, and reusability 

• Supporting stakeholders across the wider global IVI business and working closely with suppliers 

• Product implementation in complex areas of products to provide technical strength to squads 

• Work with System architects and System Engineers to define and clarify requirements. 

Key Interactions  

• PO’s, Scrum Master,   

• X-functional system teams – including UK  

• Architects, developers  

Knowledge, Skills and Experience  

We’re keen to talk to people with the following skills and experience:  

• Experience in managing agile delivery through multi-disciplinary teams in a CE/CI/CD environment  

• Agile/Lean advocate with experience of the full lifecycle, from UX and high-quality user stories to driving a satisfactory MVP and beyond  

• Experience working with and supporting the major roles and functions of Product Development teams, including Product Managers, Product Owners and Analysts  

• Familiar with vehicle communication network, incl. CAN, Flexray, Ethernet, etc. 

• Knowledge of infotainment architecture 

• Working knowledge of Android OS in Automotive 

• Experience of infotainment system development  

• Track record of successful technical delivery of complex software projects through the use of Agile techniques 

• Ability to analyse and resolve complex hardware and software interrelated issues 

• Good analytical and problem-solving skills 

• Ability to communicate with excellence to business stakeholders and technical teams 

• Critically review solutions and provide technical direction and leadership to a team 

• Proven ability to communicate complex technical issues to stakeholders at all levels 

The following skills and experience are a bonus:  

• Working knowledge of Android OS in Automotive 

• Participate in variety of software and ECU (Electronic Control Unit) testing including unit testing, integration testing, bench end to end testing and in-vehicle test. 

• Deliver quality software by involving in architecture, requirements, design, code, and test case reviews. 

• Support manufacturing requirements analysis and development 

• Consider quality and safety critical functionality and understand electrical and computing risks that arise from working on Embedded System. 

• Knowledge / experience of JIRA and Confluence  

The qualities which will help you thrive in this role:  

• Servant Leader – garner respect from your team and be willing to get your hands dirty to get the job done  

• Communicative and social – at all levels  

• Facilitative – lead and demonstrate value-add principles  

• Assertive – ensure Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, be a voice of reason and authority, make the tough calls when required  

• Situationally Aware – the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and handle/elevate appropriately  

• Enthusiastic and motivated  

• Continual improvement – growing your craft, learning new tools and techniques to manage yourself and a team  

• Conflict resolution – facilitate discussion and facilitate alternatives or different approaches  

• Attitude of empowerment – lead a team to self-organisation  

• Attitude of transparency – bring disclosure and transparency to the business about development and grow trust.