Overview

The Automotive Functional & Feature Specification Engineer is responsible for supporting requirements analysis, functional specification development, and feature definition activities for Automotive Electrical/Electronic (EE) systems, EE Architecture, Infotainment (IVI), and vehicle system development programs. The role focuses on translating stakeholder requirements into transparent, traceable, and V-Model-compliant specifications that support design, development, integration, and validation activities.

Responsibilities

Requirements Analysis

- Analyze vehicle-level, system-level, and component-level requirements.
- Support requirements elicitation from OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers, and internal stakeholders.
- Identify gaps, ambiguities, dependencies, and inconsistencies in requirements.
- Classify requirements into functional, non-functional, safety-related, and interface requirements.
- Maintain end-to-end requirements traceability throughout the V-Model lifecycle.

Functional Specification Development

- Develop and maintain Functional Specification Documents (FSDs) for vehicle systems and ECUs.
- Define system behavior, operational scenarios, use cases, and functional flows.
- Document inputs, outputs, interfaces, signals, and error handling mechanisms.
- Ensure alignment with EE architecture and vehicle network topology.
- Update specifications based on design reviews, architecture changes, and change requests.

Feature Specification

- Define vehicle and system features, including objectives, scope, assumptions, and constraints.
- Document feature behavior, dependencies, functional decomposition, and acceptance criteria.




- Support decomposition of vehicle features into system and ECU-level requirements.
- Align feature specifications with vehicle programs and product roadmaps.

Collaboration & Support

- Collaborate with system architects, EE architects, software development teams, validation engineers, and program managers.
- Support requirement clarification during design, implementation, and testing phases.
- Participate in change impact analysis and maintain documentation updates.
- Identify and communicate risks, requirement gaps, and inconsistencies proactively.

Qualifications

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Computer Science, Mechatronics, or a related engineering discipline.
- 0–6 years of experience in Automotive EE Systems, Functional Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Requirements Engineering.
- Understanding of automotive development processes and lifecycle models.

Essential skills

Technical Skills

- Automotive requirements engineering and analysis.
- Functional specification and feature definition.
- Requirements decomposition and traceability management.
- V-Model development lifecycle understanding.
- Functional analysis of vehicle systems and ECUs.




- Documentation and specification writing.

Tool Expertise

- IBM DOORS / DOORS Next for requirements management and traceability.
- PREEVISION for EE architecture modeling and feature decomposition.
- Jira for requirements and change management.
- Confluence for documentation and collaboration.
- MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for specification development and reporting.

Domain Knowledge

- Vehicle EE architecture concepts.
- System, subsystem, and ECU-level requirements engineering.
- Interface and signal definition.

Desired skills

- Knowledge of automotive communication protocols:
- CAN
- LIN
- FlexRay
- Automotive Ethernet

- Exposure to UML and SysML modeling.
- Experience with Enterprise Architect.
- Understanding of:

- Functional Safety (ISO 26262)
- ASPICE processes and practices.

- Awareness of automotive software and systems development methodologies.
- Exposure to infotainment (IVI) and vehicle feature development.

Experience

Required Experience

- 0–6 years of experience in:
- Automotive EE Systems Engineering
- Functional Engineering
- Requirements Engineering
- Feature Specification Development
- Vehicle Systems Development

Preferred Experience

- Experience working with OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers, or automotive engineering service organizations.
- Hands-on experience in requirements management and traceability tools.
- Exposure to automotive architecture, vehicle features, and ECU development projects.
- Experience supporting design, integration, validation, and change management activities.

📌 Automotive Functional & Feature Specification Engineer (Chennai)
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