Senior Technical Lead - CAN, Embedded Systems, C++
United States
Job Description
Senior Technical Lead - CAN, Embedded Systems, C++
Others, Washington

Job Summary

• Work effectively with all functional groups to achieve product performance and cost targets. Build quality and manufacturability into designs. Ensure compliance with company and regulatory guidelines to support a safe operating environment.

• Support continuous process improvement activities, including Kaizen and 5S practices, to maintain an organized and efficient work environment and encourage personal development.

• Demonstrate proficiency in verbal and written English for technical reports, presentations, analyses, and other communications across the organization.

• Understand, decompose, and define product and process requirements to support product development, sustaining engineering, and R&D.

• Plan, estimate, prioritize, and manage work activities to meet project schedules and budgets.

• Apply experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Produce thorough and accurate design and development work of appropriate complexity that meets specifications for schedule, cost, producibility, quality, and reliability.

• Utilize effective problem-solving processes, documentation, tools, and analyses to quickly identify root causes and corrective actions for technical challenges during product development and sustaining activities.

• Generate and review product development documentation, including proposals, technical reports, procedures, and correspondence required for customer and program needs.

• Work independently and demonstrate strong self-motivation while collaborating effectively within cross‑functional teams (engineering, operations, quality, business).

• Support IPT activities in collaboration with technical, operations, quality, and business teams.

• Contribute to Systems Engineering activities (architecture and components), including initial research, architecture definition, requirements definition, validation, system verification, and requirements flow-down.

• Lead system development activities following industry-recognized processes (e.g., ARP4754).

• Lead the development of System Safety analyses such as reliability predictions, FMEA, Fault Tree Analysis, Common Mode Analysis, and Single Event Upset analysis (ARP4761).

• Participate in certification compliance activities for essential and critical-level control systems in aircraft applications.

• Perform any other tasks assigned by supervisor or management.

Key Responsibilities

• Work effectively with all functional groups to achieve product performance and cost targets. Build quality and manufacturability into designs. Ensure compliance with company and regulatory guidelines to support a safe operating environment.

• Support continuous process improvement activities, including Kaizen and 5S practices, to maintain an organized and efficient work environment and encourage personal development.

• Demonstrate proficiency in verbal and written English for technical reports, presentations, analyses, and other communications across the organization.

• Understand, decompose, and define product and process requirements to support product development, sustaining engineering, and R&D.

• Plan, estimate, prioritize, and manage work activities to meet project schedules and budgets.

• Apply experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Produce thorough and accurate design and development work of appropriate complexity that meets specifications for schedule, cost, producibility, quality, and reliability.

• Utilize effective problem-solving processes, documentation, tools, and analyses to quickly identify root causes and corrective actions for technical challenges during product development and sustaining activities.

• Generate and review product development documentation, including proposals, technical reports, procedures, and correspondence required for customer and program needs.

• Work independently and demonstrate strong self-motivation while collaborating effectively within cross‑functional teams (engineering, operations, quality, business).

• Support IPT activities in collaboration with technical, operations, quality, and business teams.

• Contribute to Systems Engineering activities (architecture and components), including initial research, architecture definition, requirements definition, validation, system verification, and requirements flow-down.

• Lead system development activities following industry-recognized processes (e.g., ARP4754).

• Lead the development of System Safety analyses such as reliability predictions, FMEA, Fault Tree Analysis, Common Mode Analysis, and Single Event Upset analysis (ARP4761).

• Participate in certification compliance activities for essential and critical-level control systems in aircraft applications.

• Perform any other tasks assigned by supervisor or management.

Skill Requirements

Experience with system development following recognized industry processes (e.g., ARP4754).
• Familiarity with DO178, DO254, and DO160.
• Understanding of Systems Engineering principles, including interpreting and writing requirements, system architectures, and system designs.
• Knowledge of requirements management, validation, and verification.
• Familiarity with multiphysics modeling and simulation (e.g., Simulink).
• Familiarity with circuit analysis and power supply topologies.
• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle.

Other Requirements

Working knowledge of requirements management tools (e.g., DOORS) is highly desirable.

Maximum Salary (US):  121000
Minimum Salary (US):  79000
Information at a Glance

Why HCLTech?

At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 226,300 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending December 2025 totaled $14.5 billion.

Compensation and Benefits

A candidate’s pay within the range will depend on their skills, experience, education, and other factors permitted by law. This role may also be eligible for performance-based bonuses subject to company policies. In addition, this role is eligible for the following benefits subject to company policies: medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, life, accidental death & dismemberment, and disability insurance; employee assistance program; 401(k) retirement plan; 10 days of paid time off per year (some positions are eligible for need-based leave with no designated number of leave days per year); and 10 paid holidays per year.