Senior ADAS Systems Engineer

Job Description

About the Team:
The Senior ADAS Application Engineer is responsible for the application release of the ZF Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and components for the commercial vehicle market (Class 6-8 trucks, buses, and specialty vehicles). This role bridges customer programs, systems engineering, validation, and field performance—ensuring ADAS features meet safety, regulatory, and customer requirements across diverse operating domains.

What you can look forward to as Senior ADAS Application Engineer: 

• Requirements elicitation and specification mapping
• Collect technical customer requirements, specifications, and associated documents.
• Compare customer requirements and specifications with ZF specifications, identify mapping specifications and deviations.
• Provide proposals for ZF product matching customer requirements, resolve deviations in consultation with product group engineer and customer, accomplish acceptance of deviations.
• Create change request for non-acceptable deviations including breakdown of customer requirements.
• Select / design / calculate product layout for customer application.
• Consolidate / prepare product documentation (Drawings, schematics, plumbing/wiring diagrams, DMU’s, specifications, bill of material etc.)
• Configure product according to customer needs (e.g. parameter setting)

Your profile as Senior ADAS Application Engineer:

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Software/Computer Engineering, Robotics, or similar (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years’ experience in ADAS, active safety, and/or commercial vehicle electronics (functional development, applications, testing, integration, or systems).
• Technical knowledge of Product Engineering in the automotive industry, preferably commercial vehicle market with experience in but not limited to ADAS 
• Good understanding of vehicle communication networks (CAN/CAN-FD/Ethernet). 
• Functional safety and Cybersecurity concepts.
• Experience with sensor calibration (intrinsic/extrinsic camera calibration; radar alignment; target-based calibration).
• Experience with vehicle dynamics impacts on ADAS performance (grade, trailer articulation, yaw rate, wheel slip).
• Experience with automotive tools (Data Loggers, Vector: CANalyzer, CANoe, CANape/CANdela/PEAK/etc....).
• Familiarity with requirements management, test case creation, and issue resolution tools (DOORS/Integrity) preferred.

What We Offer:

• A supportive collaborative team environment
• Annual Incentive Plan
• Paid Vacation
• 401k Plan
• Health Care Benefits
• Paid Holidays 
• A Hybrid Work Schedule (2 days remote/3 days onsite)
• A strong diversity culture
• Supportive Employee Groups and community outreach activities