At Garmin we create products that are designed indoors for outdoor activities. We do this to enable our customers to make the most of their time spent pursuing their passions.
We are a global company with offices in the US, Europe and Asia. In these centers, we carry out the various stages of product development, from initial concept to mass production of ready-to-sell units. We embrace a vertically integrated business model with strategic design, manufacturing, distribution, sales and support centers around the world to maximize our value to customers.
Garmin is a great place to work if you love developing products that make a difference and if you are passionate about technology.
Currently, in our Cluj office, we are looking for a Staff Systems Engineer to join one of our Automotive teams. Please discover more here
Essential functions:
- Creates and maintains system architecture specifications, interface definitions, and integration plans that serve as the foundation for downstream hardware, firmware, and software development teams.
- Decomposes product and business requirements into a system architecture that defines interfaces, boundaries, design constraints, and both static (structural) and dynamic (timing, data flows, state transitions) system behaviors.
- Drives hardware block diagrams including the selection of main components (e.g., SoC, MCU), defines interfaces with the vehicle for various subsystems (e.g., networking, connectivity, display, audio), and clarifies system behavior in the vehicle environment.
- Defines software system architecture including partitioning, interface specification, and integration with hardware abstraction layers, ensuring efficient and reliable interaction with hardware components.
- Conducts multidisciplinary design reviews, validating that hardware performance, firmware integration, and software interoperability align with architectural intent and behavioral requirements.
- Oversees tradeoff analysis spanning both hardware constraints (e.g., power, signal integrity, EMI/EMC) and software considerations (e.g., latency, throughput, reliability).
- Establishes system verification criteria that unify hardware validation, firmware testing, and software QA processes.
- Applies systems engineering methodologies (e.g., FMEA, risk analysis, design-for-test, design-for-manufacturing) across hardware and software subsystems.
- Contributes inventions, new designs, and techniques regarded as significant advances in engineering.
- Provides mentorship and technical leadership to engineers across domains, fostering systems-level thinking and technical excellence.
- Represents Garmin among industry partners, peer groups, and regulating agencies.
- Associates are expected to integrate, use, and provide feedback on products in development when possible as part of their normal job responsibilities.