Staff Systems Engineer

Garmin is a leading active tech company. The company develops innovative products for people who lead an active life - from smartwatches and diving watches to bike computers, cockpits for sports airplanes and radars for yachts.Founded in 1989 by engineer friends Gary Burrell and Min Kao in Olathe, Kansas, Garmin today stands for a broad, highly differentiated product portfolio in the outdoor, fitness, aviation, automotive and marine sectors. Over 20,000 employees in 35 countries worldwide help customers discover their passions and live more active, conscious and healthy lives every day in line with the motto "Beat Yesterday".

Garmin is represented in the DACH region with locations in Garching near Munich (D), Graz (A) and Neuhausen am Rheinfall (CH). Around 300 employees work there. The company also has its own research and development site in Würzburg (D).

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Staff Systems Engineer (m/w/d) - Automotive OEM
Aufgaben

• System Architecture Specifications: Create and maintain architecture specifications, interface definitions, and integration plans as the foundation for hardware, firmware, and software development teams.
• Requirements Analysis: Decompose product and business requirements into a system architecture with well-defined interfaces, boundaries, design constraints, and both structural and dynamic system behaviors (timing, data flows, state transitions).
• Hardware Architecture: Develop hardware block diagrams, select main components (e.g., SoC, MCU), define vehicle interfaces for subsystems (e.g., networking, connectivity, display, audio), and describe system behavior within the vehicle environment.
• Software Architecture: Define software system partitioning, interface specifications, and integration with hardware abstraction layers to ensure efficient and reliable interaction with hardware components.
• Design Reviews: Conduct multidisciplinary design reviews to validate that hardware performance, firmware integration, and software interoperability align with architectural intent and functional requirements.
• Trade-off Analysis: Perform analyses balancing hardware constraints (e.g., power, signal integrity, EMI/EMC) with software considerations (e.g., latency, throughput, reliability).
• Verification Criteria: Establish unified verification criteria to harmonize hardware validation, firmware testing, and software QA processes.
• Systems Engineering Methods: Apply methodologies such as FMEA, risk analysis, design-for-test, and design-for-manufacturing across hardware and software subsystems.
• Innovation: Contribute inventions, new designs, and techniques that represent significant advances in engineering.
• Mentorship & Leadership: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across disciplines, fostering systems-level thinking and technical excellence.
• Representation: Represent the company with industry partners, peer groups, and regulatory agencies.
• Product Integration: Use and provide feedback on in-development products as part of normal responsibilities.

Profil

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial or Software Engineering or related field and multiple years (approx. 20 years) of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
• Demonstrated proficiency in research and development of leading-edge technology in the automotive infotainment domain
• Excellent understanding of hardware and software development and capable of driving system design in a fast-paced environment
• Multiple years of experience in offering direction and influence to engineering management on different organizational levels
• Very good understanding of industrialization processes and related factory collaborations
• Strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Unique blend of technical, business and project skills that enables vision and ownership of a given technology or system
• Demonstrated proficiency in the development of ADAS and automated driving systems

Wir bieten

• free use of our products
• Tax-advantaged benefits via a prepaid benefit card
• EGYM Wellpass membership
• Discounted Deutschlandticket (job ticket)
• Job bike leasing (JobRad)
• Participation in the Garmin employee stock purchase plan
• Kindergarten allowance
• Family & Friends discounts
• Employee events (Christmas party, Oktoberfest, Global Running Day, etc.)
• Company pension plan
• …

Important note
Please be advised that a valid work permit for Germany is required for non-EU citizens. Unfortunately, applications without a valid work permit and sufficient German language skills may not be considered.

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