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Valeo

Automotive electrification, ADAS, interior lighting tech

Resident R&D Engineer

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeToyota, Aichi, JapanNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least five years of system development experience with automotive electrical components, such as high-voltage components, electric heaters, or inverters, for the manager position.
  • Knowledge of electrical and electronics fields.
  • Experience handling technical negotiations and specification coordination with OEMs for the manager position.
  • Business-advanced Japanese proficiency.
  • Business-level English proficiency in reading, writing, and conversation.
  • System development experience with automotive electrical components, such as high-voltage components, electric heaters, or inverters, for the staff-level mechatronic engineer position.
  • Basic knowledge of electrical and electronics fields.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical development for high-voltage coolant heaters and consolidate development direction and specifications based on OEM requirements.
  • Provide technical reports to customers, coordinate specifications, and make technical decisions.
  • Determine development and technical direction with mass production in mind.
  • Oversee the design of high-voltage coolant heaters and inverter control systems, ensuring consistency across electrical, electronic, mechanical, and thermal systems.
  • Coordinate technical work with European development sites and Chinese development and production teams, and advance application design for the Japanese market.
  • Manage team budgets, allocate resources, improve work efficiency, develop and evaluate team members, and participate in hiring.
  • Respond to customer technical inquiries with manager support.
  • Organize, analyze, and report test and design data.
  • Organize and provide feedback on requirements to overseas development sites.
  • Manage and verify quality and specification requirements for the Japanese market.
  • Share technical information and coordinate with European and Chinese teams.
  • Manage engineers and technicians, including yearly reviews, meetings, missions, and objectives.
  • Define team qualifications and training plans with management support; allocate staff to project activities; and propose training and career development with management support.
  • Contribute to recruiting department members.
  • Propose and monitor the team budget and be responsible for the Team Efficiency Plan and its achievements.
  • Deploy engineering processes, methodologies, and tools defined with the Engineering Discipline Manager or Director; help define project processes, methods, and tools; deploy the 5 Axes methodology; and improve discipline standards, methods, and tools.
  • Support the RAISE team through standards knowledge, training, and implementation; review and challenge destandardization requests before release; and ensure each design achieves robust design standards.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience applying and developing systems for automotive high-voltage components.
  • Management experience; applicants interested in moving into management are also welcome.
  • Chinese language skills for coordination with Valeo's China sites.

About the Company

Valeo

Automotive electrification, ADAS, interior lighting tech

Valeo creates technology for automakers to make cars cleaner, safer, and smarter, focusing on four areas: electrification, driving assistance, reinvented interior experiences, and lighting. Its products combine electrical systems, sensors, software, and lighting that are designed, manufactured, and integrated into vehicles to enable electric propulsion, automated driving features, smarter interiors, and advanced illumination. The company differentiates itself by being a global industrial and technology leader with a large manufacturing footprint and a broad, cross‑domain portfolio across mobility transformation. Valeo’s goal is to help the transportation system shift toward cleaner, safer, and smarter mobility worldwide.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
1923

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