System Engineer (Automotive)

Location: Hasselt, Belgium; hybrid work with telework possible 2 days per week

Company

Médiane Benelux is an engineering company providing software, electronics, embedded systems, cybersecurity, consulting, digital transformation, IoT, and project management services across automotive and other industrial sectors.

What you will do

• Define, maintain, and verify system-level requirements for transmission efficiency and performance across vehicle segments, markets, and drive cycles.
• Develop real-world mission profiles and perform energy-flow analysis and loss breakdowns at transmission and subsystem levels.
• Build system-level simulation models, predict performance under different loads, and correlate results with vehicle tests, subsystem validation, and end-of-line data.
• Support trade-offs between mechanical architecture, control strategies, and efficiency targets, collaborating with hardware, controls, calibration, testing, and validation teams.
• Define characterization tests for clutches, bearings, and drag losses; contribute to design reviews, DFMEA, validation strategies, and next-generation transmission concepts.
• Benchmark competitor transmission systems and identify best practices and innovation opportunities.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Automotive, Mechanical, or Mechatronics Engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in transmission system development, ideally focused on efficiency or testing.
• Strong data-driven mindset, analytical approach, problem-solving skills, and system-level thinking.
• Hands-on experience with Matlab/Simulink or equivalent simulation tools.
• Experience in data acquisition and analysis.
• Strong understanding of transmission architectures, loss mechanisms, and energy-flow analysis.
• Comfortable working in multidisciplinary, international teams.
• Knowledge of requirements management tools such as Polarion.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time permanent employment with an engineering company.
• Work on high-impact automotive projects with international, multidisciplinary teams.
• Contribute to next-generation hybrid transmission systems.
• Attractive salary package, additional statutory leave days, and a mobility package including a car or public transport subscription.
• DKV health insurance, group insurance, meal vouchers, and eco-vouchers.
• Personalized employee support, continuous training, skill development, and a collaborative innovation-focused environment.