Lead Systems Engineer

US-MI-Auburn Hills

Job ID: 2026-8293
Type: Regular Full-Time
# of Openings: 2
Category: Salaried - Engineering
Strattec Security Corp.

Responsibilities

SUMMARY:

• The Lead Product Engineer at Strattec will lead the design and engineering development of electro-mechanical products for various automotive closure systems.
• Need to have experience in designing, engineering and developing electro-mechanical devices.
• Power sliding door actuators, power deck-lid actuators, power lift-gate actuators, power side door actuators and power running board actuators are among the products that will be developed.
• The above electro-mechanical actuators may include motors, clutches, gearboxes, injection molded plastics, powdered metal components, stampings, roll formed components, extrusions and castings.
• The lead product engineer will be supported by various other engineers in the group. This team of engineers will develop the entire drive unit mechanism for the power closure system.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for product design, engineering and development of assigned programs.
• Leads multi-disciplined design reviews on programs assigned.
• Maintains BOM on assigned products.
• Coordinates prototype builds on assigned programs, including development of prototype build control plan.
• Works closely with manufacturing engineers and purchasing on component procurement.
• Represents Strattec in weekly Program Development Team meetings with customer.
• Utilizes the Strattec Program Development Process (PDP) for program implementation.
• Periodic travel required (~10%).

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must be able to conceptualize, plan and develop small electro-mechanical devices and mechanisms.
• Must be able to perform strength of material and static force calculations.
• Must have experience with MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project).
• Must have experience in performing tolerance stacks.
• Must have experience dimensioning and applying tolerances to components and assemblies.
• Must have a working knowledge of GD&T principles.
• Must have experience with design for manufacturability/assembly (mechanisms, metal stampings, plastic injection molded parts, die cast parts, gears etc).
• Must have experience in working with CAE analysis team (FEA, ADAMS, Moldflow etc).

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE :

• BSME is required (Mechanical Engineering).
• 10+ years of experience in product development required.
• Mechatronics, Mechanisms and/or Electro-mechanical system design experience is required.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Good oral and written English language skills.
• Korean language is preferred.
• Spanish language is desirable.
• Strong technical writing skills are required.

Strattec is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to status as a protected veteran or a qualified individual with a disability, or other protected status such as race, religion, color, national origin, sex, and age.