VEHICLE ELECTRONICS SYSTEM ENGINEER

Vehicle Electronics System Engineer

Requisition ID: 5941

Job Location: Modena - Italy

Category: Engineering and Technical

Job Type: Full Time

Working Mode: Hybrid

About Us

Innovation. Sustainability. Productivity. This is how we are Breaking New Ground in our mission to sustainably advance the noble work of farmers and builders everywhere. With a growing global population and increased demands on resources, our products are instrumental to feeding and sheltering the world.

From developing products that run on alternative power to productivity-enhancing precision tech, we are delivering solutions that benefit people – and they are possible thanks to people like you. If the opportunity to build your skills as part of a collaborative, global team excites you, you’re in the right place.

Grow a Career. Build a Future!

Be part of this company at the forefront of agriculture and construction, that passionately innovates to drive customer efficiency and success. And we know innovation can’t happen without collaboration. So, everything we do at CNH Industrial is about reaching new heights as one team, always delivering for the good of our customers.

Job Purpose

Responsible for defining, developing, and integrating vehicle and implement system functionalities, ensuring customer needs are translated into robust system requirements, architectures, and validated solutions throughout the product development lifecycle.

The System Engineer serves as a technical bridge between Product Management, Software Development, Validation, Manufacturing, Service and Platform Engineering teams, to deliver high-quality system solutions for agricultural machinery.

Key Responsibilities

• Capture, analyze, and manage customer, operator, business, and regulatory requirements for vehicle and implement systems.
• Translate stakeholder needs into clear, verifiable, and traceable system requirements.
• Define and maintain requirements traceability from customer needs through functional requirements
• Support feature development related to tractor systems, implement integration, automation functions, and precision agriculture technologies.
• Define system behaviors and failure management strategies.
• Perform functional analysis and identify normal, degraded, fault, recovery, and corner-case operating scenarios.
• Support Change Review Boards (CRB) as system expert to performe RCA.
• Manage and maintain system requirements, change requests, and defect resolution activities using Polarion and associated lifecycle management tools.
• Support software and control strategy development through continuous collaboration with software teams.
• Define and maintain communication interfaces between ECUs, sensors, displays, telematics systems, and implements.
• Participate in technical reviews, design reviews, validation reviews, and release readiness assessments.
• Support root cause investigations of vehicle and system issues, identifying corrective and preventive actions.
• Collaborate with validation teams to support a correct execution of testing phase.
• Support safety-related development activities in compliance with ISO 25119 and other applicable standards.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of systems engineering processes, methodologies, and best practices.

Experience Required

• Master/Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical field.
• Minimum 5 years of engineering experience in agricultural, off-highway, automotive, industrial vehicle, or related industries.
• Experience in requirements engineering, system integration, or vehicle development activities.
• Experience working in cross-functional engineering organizations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Polarion, IBM DOORS, Jama, or equivalent requirements management tools.
• Knowledge of Systems Engineering methodologies and V-Cycle development processes.
• Experience with requirements traceability and verification planning.
• Tractor-Implement Management (TIM), ISOBUS, automation, and vehicle connectivity initiatives
• Familiarity with SysML and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).
• Knowledge of ISO 25119 Functional Safety principles.
• Experience with CAN, J1939, ISOBUS, TIM, Ethernet, and vehicle communication networks.
• Understanding of precision farming systems, guidance, automation, and autonomous vehicle functions.
• Knowledge of electrical and electronic architectures for mobile machinery.
• INCOSE ASEP or CSEP certification is considered a plus.

Pay Transparency

The annual salary for this role is EUR €39,000.00 - €52,000.00 plus any applicable bonus (Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as skill, experience and qualification for the role.).

For roles open across multiple locations, the salary range indicated refers to the primary location. If a different location is considered, the applicable salary range will be communicated to candidates prior to the first interview.

What We Offer

• Flexible work arrangements
• Savings & Retirement benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Fertility & Family building support
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Charitable contribution matching and Volunteer Time Off

Our Engineering & Technical Team

Explore the exciting and rewarding career opportunities in our engineering and technical departments, where you can grow your skills and experience, advance your career, and meet customer needs with innovative solutions.

1974, World’s First Twin Rotor Combine.

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1975, First self-propelled grape harvester. 1977, First single rotor combine. 1980, First in-cab automatic sprayer control system.

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1995, First commercial use of integrated precision farming. 1996, First tractor with four-tracked system.

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2009, First wireless services to sync field to office. 2009, First zero emissions hydrogen-powered tractor.

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2020, First Commercial Autonomous Solutions For Agriculture.

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DAN ESLINGER: CNH partners with our customers to enable their business to operate. That’s through the use of technology, deployment of capital, dealer and support networks, and everything that’s required for them to operate their business successfully.

TIM ROSZHART: So for those workers that were blessed enough to get into the ag industry into farming, it’s really around how do we amplify or expand the capabilities of what they can get done.

MATT AMES: It’s an exciting time for the tractors and for the farmers as these technologies mature and these designs are put into use and are going to be rolled out to our customers.

TIM ROSZHART: With technology, we’re able to make decisions that care for every square foot of ground. It’s a great way to take interest in connectivity and mobile apps, artificial intelligence, and computer vision, these things that we see in other industries, in automotive, even in the gaming industry, and others and how to– can actually bring those interests and those passions and use it for this great purpose to help feed the world. That’s pretty cool.

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