For over 110 years Aston Martin has made the most exquisitely addictive performance sports cars. But no one builds an Aston Martin on their own. Behind these legends and landmarks are hundreds of dreamers, darers and doers who make extraordinary happen, every single day. That’s why the name of everyone who has ever worn our famous wings is inscribed on the wall of our factory. As we embark on an exciting new era for the business, we need the very best people to write their own chapter on our journey to become the world’s most desirable ultra-luxury British performance brand. Join us. Job Purpose: Aston Martin will develop and deploy new ADAS and AD driving features into future vehicle programmes to meet both legislative requirements and to ensure our vehicles deliver the best customer experience in line with brand expectations. This will require the technical leadership of feature delivery into future vehicle programmes. The role will own the feature and ensure its delivery to achieve technical targets, deliver on time and to budget. While the implementation and testing will be undertaken by parallel teams, the role will be expected to work closely with those teams to feed requirements into the software implementation, ensure those requirements are understood and implemented, to ensure that vehicle test and development requirements are understood and that the necessary level of test, calibration and validation is delivered to support overall feature delivery. Key Duties & Responsibilities: Responsible for the delivery strategy of specific ADAS & AD features, including development plan, timing of key deliverables into the vehicle programme and the achievement of target attributes Responsible for the design and delivery of ADAS & Autonomous Driving (AD) features: Defining the customer experience, relevant feature KPIs and feature use cases Developing and cascading feature requirements throughout the business and aligning with cross-functional teams Guiding suppliers and implementation teams to ensure delivery of feature content in line with the delivery strategy Leading the successful delivery of feature content to the appropriate vehicle gateways through to production vehicles Ensuring the delivery plan aligns to programme gateways Owning and resolving conflicts in terms of technical delivery and timing Supporting roll-out of content into production build Ensure that all legislative requirements are achieved Guiding other team members to support the achievement of feature delivery Working with parallel teams responsible for sensor packaging and installation, for simulation and rig set up and operation, for software implementation and for development and test vehicle planning, management and operation Qualification & Experience: Experience in Product Delivery and technical problem solving Excellent knowledge of ADAS technical development (including regulatory and industry standards) Working knowledge of requirements management tools (e.g. Polarion or Doors) Working knowledge of FuSa/DFMEA Working knowledge of Vector tools Delivery planning Supplier engagement and management Experience of L3 Autonomous Driving systems Experience of ADAS systems calibration and validation Working with ADAS simulation tools (e.g. CarMaker, SCaNeR, Matlab) Degree educated in relevant Engineering discipline Behaviours: Comfortable working to deadlines and holding others to account Able to influence others – even when direct reporting lines are not present Creative and courageous to enable achievement of aggressive company targets A collaborative approach to solving problems requiring input and support of others Belong at Aston Martin We understand that the incredible beauty, craft and art that defines an Aston Martin comes from the inclusion of our amazing people. We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs. We celebrate diversity and are seeking applicants who can bring something different. Please speak to us if there is anything you need to support making an application with us. The post holder will be required to comply with all policies and procedures issued by and on behalf of Aston Martin Lagonda ltd Grade 9