Valeo is seeking an experienced Project FUSA Leader for a complex ADAS project in Prague. This role involves leading a vehicle-level project segment, ensuring robust design, and smooth engineering delivery. Responsibilities include overseeing system verification, integration, and validation, covering Functional Safety (FUSA) and SOTIF aspects. The leader will coordinate technical teams, manage customer interfaces, and work with suppliers to ensure project success and compliance with safety standards.

Must Have

• Ensure all engineering discipline deliverables meet project expectations
• Plan, monitor, and control engineering activities following CPM
• Guarantee robust design and validation aligned with project cost targets
• Analyze and review internal, customer requirements, and technical specifications
• Evaluate and define acceptance criteria for test cases
• Guide verification and validation strategy
• Apply standardization rules
• Prepare and lead Engineering Design Reviews
• Lead all FUSA-related activities on the vehicle level
• Drive system verification, integration, and validation (vehicle-level testing)
• Ensure alignment with Functional Safety (ISO 26262) and SOTIF guidelines
• Collaborate closely with system engineering, software, testing, and vehicle teams
• Act as the key technical interface for FUSA and system topics
• Represent engineering discipline content towards the customer
• Build strong relationships with suppliers and coordinate technical deliveries
• Create detailed planning of engineering activities and define needed work packages
• Track progress, spending, risks, and deviations
• Contribute to resource planning, tooling, and investment needs
• Functionally lead a multidisciplinary group of engineers and technicians
• Assign tasks, manage priorities, and ensure alignment with project needs
• Provide guidance, support problem-solving, and ensure high performance

Good to Have

• Background in ADAS functions, especially Emergency Braking (AEB)

Perks & Benefits

• Work in a stable international company in a multinational team
• Work with cutting-edge technologies in Automotive
• Possibility to see the whole development process in one place
• 6 weeks of vacation per year
• Flexible working hours and home office possibility
• Variable remuneration - monthly and semester bonuses depending on team and company result
• Contribution to the pension insurance after the probation period, 5% from the gross salary
• Meal vouchers and free time vouchers on Flexi Pass card
• Possibility of Multisport card
• Fitness room and external sports ground (football, basketball, volleyball) on site
• Mobility support for commuting, accommodation and moving services if you live over 20km away
• Company canteen offering a selection of international cuisine
• Easy access to work by Prague metro line A, car parking for all employees
• Personal development program through technical trainings and language courses
• Regular company team building events
• Outdoor relax zone with a barbecue space for team building

Project FUSA Leader - ADAS / DETECT

Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.

We are an automotive supplier, partner to all automakers worldwide. As a technology company, Valeo proposes innovative products and systems that contribute to the reduction of CO2 emissions and to the development of intuitive driving. Since 2013 we have been developing in our Prague R&D Center advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) for smarter cars. Valeo is a leading supplier of components and systems for the world's automakers. In our R&D (Research & Development) Center in Prague we develop Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) for intelligent cars.

In our R&D Center in Prague we are looking for an experienced Project FUSA Leader to take ownership of a highly complex ADAS project for a key customer. As a Project FUSA Leader you will be responsible for leading a part of the project at vehicle level. You will oversee system verification, integration, and validation on the vehicle - covering both FUSA and SOTIF aspects.

Your mission is to ensure robust design, smooth delivery of engineering activities, and effective coordination across technical teams, customer interfaces, and suppliers.

YOUR CHALLENGES?

Technical Leadership & Design Ownership

• Ensure all engineering discipline deliverables meet project expectations
• Plan, monitor, and control engineering activities following CPM (CLEAN Project Management)
• Guarantee robust design and validation aligned with project cost targets
• Analyze and review internal requirements, customer requirements, and technical specifications
• Evaluate and define acceptance criteria for test cases; guide verification and validation strategy
• Apply standardization rules; request de-standardization when justified
• Prepare and lead Engineering Design Reviews

FUSA & SOTIF Responsibility

• Lead all FUSA-related activities on the vehicle level
• Drive system verification, integration, and validation (vehicle-level testing)
• Ensure alignment with Functional Safety (ISO 26262) and SOTIF guidelines
• Collaborate closely with system engineering, software, testing, and vehicle teams

Customer & Supplier Management

• Act as the key technical interface for FUSA and system topics
• Represent engineering discipline content towards the customer
• Build strong relationships with suppliers and coordinate technical deliveries

Scheduling, Budgeting & Resource Planning

• Create detailed planning of engineering activities and define needed work packages
• Track progress, spending, risks, and deviations; escalate when needed
• Contribute to resource planning, tooling, and investment needs

People Leadership

• Functionally lead a multidisciplinary group of engineers and technicians
• Assign tasks, manage priorities, and ensure alignment with project needs
• Provide guidance, support problem-solving, and ensure high performance within the team

LET'S TALK ABOUT YOU...

• 8–10+ years of experience in automotive engineering, system engineering, or ADAS projects
• Strong experience with Functional Safety (ISO 26262) and SOTIF
• Proven experience in System engineering, Requirements analysis, System verification & validation, Defining test case criteria and evaluating test results
• Background in ADAS functions, especially Emergency Braking (AEB) is an advantage
• Experience working directly with customers and suppliers on complex projects
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and manage engineering deliverables
• Strong organizational and managerial skills

WE OFFER

• Work in a stable international company in a multinational team
• Work with cutting-edge technologies in Automotive
• Possibility to see the whole development process in one place - from an idea (customer requirement) to a product (e.g. automated parking ECU)
• 6 weeks of vacation per year
• Flexible working hours and home office possibility
• Variable remuneration - monthly and semester bonuses depending on team and company result
• Contribution to the pension insurance after the probation period, 5% from the gross salary
• Meal vouchers and free time vouchers on Flexi Pass card
• Possibility of Multisport card
• Fitness room and external sports ground (football, basketball, volleyball) on site
• Mobility support for commuting, accommodation and moving services if you live over 20km away
• Company canteen offering a selection of international cuisine
• Easy access to work by Prague metro line A, car parking for all employees
• Personal development program through technical trainings and language courses
• Regular company team building events
• Outdoor relax zone with a barbecue space for team building

Job: R&D Design Leader

Organization: Product Safety Development

Schedule: Full time

Employee Status: Regular

Job Type: Main Employment (standard value)

Job Posting Date: 2025-12-05