What we offer:

At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to
develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees,
providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member
of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as
a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path
should be as unique as you are.

Group Summary:

Magna is more than one of the world’s largest suppliers in the automotive space. We are
a mobility technology company built to innovate, with a global,
entrepreneurial-minded team. With 65+ years of expertise, our ecosystem of
interconnected products combined with our complete vehicle expertise uniquely
positions us to advance mobility in an expanded transportation landscape.

Position Overview:

This position is responsible for productization of internal developed process
software tool prototypes to enable Magna groups to integrate these within their
processes. The role combines technical product expertise, AI/Cloud
understanding, and strong UX/UI frontend development skills to ensure the users
can utilize the tool easily and effectively. The engineer must understand
internal customer problems, translate them into actionable requirements, and
guide them through product usage and integration. The candidate will work
closely with internal group and external partners to productize existing
prototypes, by demonstrating tool capabilities, gather feedback, and
continuously improve the product experience. In addition, support the R&D
project team engineers and researchers with technical evaluation of
technologies being considered by Magna. The evaluation will consist of a
scientific deep dive, application analysis, manufacturability, market and cost
factors associated with technology. The Sr. Research Engineer will plan execute
and coordinate R&D programs for/with internal and external R&D
departments, (supplier) companies, institutions and academia.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support the development of innovative components and modules from the initial concept
  phase through the complete development process including design engineering,
  validation, prototyping, testing, and evaluation of the proposed production
  capable process and business case

• Contribute to team effort by providing innovative ideas for products and processes and by
  sharing new information with other team members

• Maintain innovation project schedule by monitoring project progress, co-coordinate
  activities, calculating time requirements, sequencing project elements and
  resolving problems

• Specify requests and coordinate all sub-contracted work (i.e. S/W development,
  prototyping, validation, testing) and assures timely completion

• Confer with other project engineers to clarify or resolve problems and develop designs

• Maintain proper filing systems to ensure all information, (electronic or hard copy), are
  stored according to departments requirements

• Provide engineering support to other departments within the company as directed by the
  department leader

• Responsible for keeping the organization abreast of developments in his/her R&D
  programs.

• Prepare project progress reports

• Use related computer software and equipment to perform technical analysis tasks

• Continuing education and/or training is critical as technology evolves

• Ability to travel domestic and international

• Perform other duties as required

Qualifications:

• 5 years or more experience including Ph.D. research, SW & ML/GenAI/AI related
  Industry

Education / Experience:

• Master's or higher degree in Engineering including but not limited to: Artificial
  Intelligence, Computer Science, Automotive OEM or Tier-1 experience preferred.

Special Knowledge / Skills:

• Strong spoken and written English language skills

• Proficient in programming python

• Experience in prompting technics

• Experience in frontend web development (next.js, react,…)

• Experience in cloud deployment (docker, azure, aws,…)

• Experience how to bring prototypes to production

Location benefits:

• Long-term perspectives in an international company

• Attractive conditions for further training measures

• Profit sharing in the company's success

• Home office options and flexible working hours

• Employee and family support program (consulting services, information, recommendations,
  and needs-based support, etc.)

We offer a salary which is in line with market conditions depending on your skills and experience.

Awareness, Unity, Empowerment:

At Magna, we believe that a diverse workforce is critical to our success. That’s why we
are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire on the basis of
experience and qualifications, and in consideration of job requirements,
regardless of, in particular, color, ancestry, religion, gender, origin, sexual
orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity.
Magna takes the privacy of your personal information seriously. We
discourage you from sending applications via email or traditional mail to
comply with GDPR requirements and your local Data Privacy Law.