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We are seeking an experienced Product Architect to lead a fixed-duration engineering pre-study for future heavy-duty truck applications. In this role, you will assess how an existing advanced vehicle architecture can be optimized, reused, and scaled across additional conventional and cab-over truck platforms.
You will transform engineering findings into practical, strategic recommendations that reduce technical uncertainty, development complexity, cost, and time to market. Building on a proven vehicle-development baseline, you will define optimal future vehicle specifications and integration approaches before a potential development program begins.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture Assessment: Assess the application of an existing vehicle architecture to alternative conventional truck configurations.
Reuse & Integration: Identify reuse, carry-over, delta-part, and system-impact opportunities for a proposed base vehicle specification.
Performance & Packaging Trade-Offs: Evaluate the effects of vehicle-configuration changes on packaging, wheelbase, fuel efficiency, payload, maneuverability, and relevant vehicle features.
Platform Feasibility (Cab-Over): Assess the feasibility of applying the architecture to cab-over truck platforms, evaluating platform suitability, auxiliary systems, structural implications, and feature impacts.
Sensor Integration: Develop sensor-integration concepts and field-of-view assessments using established sensor locations where applicable.
Strategic Roadmap & Recommendations: Define and compare longer-term base-vehicle configurations, recommend a scalable architecture, and outline an actionable implementation path.
Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with cross-functional platform, systems, and vehicle-engineering stakeholders while working independently within defined interfaces to align decision-makers.
Key Deliverables
Conventional-Platform Impact Assessment: Analysis of affected parts, systems, reuse assumptions, and vehicle-performance implications.
Architecture Strategy: Recommended future base-vehicle configuration and scalable platform strategy.
Cab-Over Feasibility Assessment: Detailed evaluation covering carry-over opportunities, packaging, sensor installation, structural changes, and open engineering questions.
Sensor Integration Package: Field-of-view analyses and physical installation concepts.
Final Executive Report: A comprehensive strategic report detailing the recommended path forward, key dependencies, risk management, cost/complexity considerations, and time-to-market opportunities.
Profil
Experience: 8+ years of relevant professional experience in heavy-duty vehicle architecture, systems engineering, or whole-vehicle integration.
Platform Expertise: Strong, practical understanding of both conventional and cab-over truck platforms.
Systems Architecture: Proven expertise in architecture reuse, carry-over planning, feature-impact analysis, and delta-part assessment.
Packaging & Sensing: Direct experience with vehicle packaging, sensor placement, field-of-view analysis, and structural integration.
Strategic Communication: Ability to translate complex technical analyses into clear, evidence-based recommendations covering cost, complexity, risk, and delivery timing for leadership decision-making.
Education: Relevant engineering degree (Mechanical, Automotive, Systems, or related field) or equivalent professional experience.
Assignment Scope & Seniority Expectations
As a Specialist-Level Product Architect, you will operate as a subject matter expert in Product Architecture. You will be expected to:
Lead the engineering pre-study to a complete, actionable solution.
Oversee the holistic product context (aligning architecture with platform, manufacturing, and lifecycle strategies).
Provide cutting-edge technical thinking, influence cross-functional networks, and act as a senior technical lead to align engineering teams.