essential

- experience: 16–22 years in automotive engineering services or oem/tier-1 engineering, including at least 8 years leading delivery organisations of 200+ engineers.
- domain depth: demonstrable ownership of hil testing and embedded validation programmes — not oversight from a distance, but hands-on technical credibility earned in the discipline.
- scale: proven track record of scaling an engineering delivery organisation, including building the leadership layer beneath them.
- client-facing seniority: experience owning oem or tier-1 relationships at delivery-governance level.
- process: working command of aspice and iso 26262; experience operating under oem quality gate regimes.
- language: professional fluency in english; working spanish, or a credible commitment to acquiring it within the first year.




- location: willing and able to be based on-site in mexico full-time.

strongly preferred

- prior experience operating in the mexican automotive engineering ecosystem, with an understanding of the local talent market, labour practices and oem cluster geography (bajio, monterrey, puebla).
- background in a integral engineering services model, with experience running offshore–onshore delivery across time zones.
- exposure to adas, ev powertrain or vehicle electronics validation alongside core hil.
- experience standing up a new engineering centre or delivery capability from an early stage.

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