Requirements Engineer

Company Description

We are KOSTAL Group, a global, independent family-owned company headquartered in Germany, developing and manufacturing high-tech electronic and mechatronic products. Across 47 locations in 21 countries, more than 19,000 employees work flexibly, competently, and close to our customers.

Join KOSTAL and shape the requirements engineering backbone for KOSTAL's European development organization!

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Lead Requirements Engineer (m/f/d). In this position, you will actively contribute to the methodological development, standardization, and implementation of a company-wide requirements engineering approach. You will use your extensive experience to further develop existing practices and embed them within global development processes. Your area of responsibility will cover all levels of requirements engineering – from customer requirements through the system, subsystem, hardware, and software levels to verification and validation.

Contribution to Methodology and Process Development

• Actively contribute to the development of a company-wide requirements engineering methodology
• Help shape and standardize processes, roles, responsibilities, and work products
• Contribute to the development of guidelines for the elicitation, analysis, specification, alignment, verification, and validation of requirements
• Support the implementation of the requirements engineering approach within the global development process
• Contribute to harmonizing existing practices across projects, development locations, and product areas
• Develop and continuously improve templates, guidelines, checklists, and quality criteria
• Contribute to establishing a consistent requirements lifecycle across all development phases and levels of abstraction
• Support the definition of governance, review, and approval mechanisms
• Identify process gaps and develop and implement improvement proposals
• Advise project teams and engineering managers on methodological and technical requirements
• engineering topics
• Role boundary: Responsibility for the company-wide methodology and process development does not lie with this position. The successful candidate will make a significant contribution to its development and implementation.

Operational Requirements Engineering

• Elicit and analyze customer, stakeholder, system, safety, and regulatory requirements
• Structure and derive requirements across the various technical levels
• Transform customer requirements into verifiable system requirements