Project Engineer

As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success.

Your task

• This full-time position is based in Auburn Hills, Michigan, with regular on-site support at Hyundai/Kia customer facilities.
• Serve as the primary technical interface between Hyundai/Kia and Brose North America, supporting customer engineering, quality, manufacturing, and production operations.
• Represent the voice of the customer by communicating technical requirements, concerns, and priorities to internal engineering, quality, and project management teams.
• Coordinate on-site vehicle evaluations, technical investigations, containment activities, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and product validation.
• Provide technical support for automotive mechatronic systems, including closure systems, latches, electronic control units, sensors, and electromechanical components.
• Support product launches, engineering changes, warranty investigations, production concerns, and customer escalations while ensuring timely resolution.
• Build strong relationships with Hyundai/Kia stakeholders and collaborate with Brose engineering centers, manufacturing plants, and global support teams.
• Manage technical project activities, customer deliverables, timing plans, and cross-functional coordination to ensure alignment with customer expectations.
• Prepare and present technical reports, customer updates, problem-solving results, and project status presentations to customer and Brose leadership.
• Travel regularly to Hyundai/Kia facilities and Brose locations throughout North America, with occasional international travel and short-notice customer support.

Your Profile

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum five years of automotive experience in technical engineering, quality, project management, product development, or OEM customer support.
• Strong technical knowledge of automotive mechatronic systems, electrical hardware, electronic control units, sensors, and software-controlled components.
• Experience supporting automotive OEM customers, preferably Hyundai/Kia, with demonstrated ability to troubleshoot technical concerns and coordinate cross-functional solutions.
• Knowledge of automotive quality methodologies, including APQP, PPAP, FMEA, 8D, 5 Why, root cause analysis, and corrective action processes.
• Experience managing technical projects, engineering changes, customer escalations, and product launch activities.
• Professional proficiency in Korean and English strongly preferred, with the ability to communicate effectively across Korean and North American business environments.
• Excellent communication, presentation, organizational, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence technical and management stakeholders.
• Self-motivated, customer-focused professional capable of working independently, managing competing priorities, and responding quickly to customer needs.

Brose offers a high-tech work environment and a wide range of benefits. Along with competitive performance-based compensation and health insurance, our employees also benefit from attractive social and family-oriented programs throughout our North American locations*. Our benefits packages include comprehensive medical and insurance. Brose also provides educational assistance and a variety of community outreach, family, and sporting events. Flexible working hours and a collaborative work environment give our employees the freedom to balance work and personal life. Brose believes in investing in people. We offer a wide range of development programs with great opportunity for individual growth through training, international or regional assignments and tailored career paths. Our objective is to provide our employees the tools necessary to live a balanced life, experience a rewarding work environment and contribute to our surrounding communities.

*Benefits package may vary slightly per location