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- Location
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- Type
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- Compensation
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Electronics Cost Engineer
- Posted
- 18D AGO
About the role
Country: Morocco
Brand: Capgemini Engineering
Reference: 564065-en_US
Contract type: Permanent
Experience level: Experienced Professionals
Professional community: Products & Systems Engineering
Business unit: Engineering and RandD Services
At Capgemini Engineering, the world leader in engineering services, we bring together a global team of engineers, scientists, and architects to help the world’s most innovative companies unleash their potential. From autonomous cars to life-saving robots, our digital and software technology experts think outside the box as they provide unique R&D and engineering services across all industries. Join us for a career full of opportunities. Where you can make a difference. Where no two days are the same.
The Software & Electronics Cost Engineer is responsible for developing, validating, and defending cost estimates for automotive software, electronics, and connected vehicle technologies throughout the product development lifecycle. The role acts as the technical bridge between Engineering, Purchasing, Finance, and Suppliers to ensure competitive cost targets while maintaining product functionality, quality, and performance.
This position leads cost engineering activities covering embedded software, ECU-based systems, cloud/off-board applications, vehicle electronics, and supplier tooling. The role requires a deep understanding of automotive EE architectures, benchmarking methodologies, cost modeling techniques, and cross-functional stakeholder management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Analyze technical specifications, software requirements, architecture diagrams, and system designs from vehicle level down to module level.
- Develop detailed cost models for automotive software and electronics programs.
- Validate supplier quotations, engineering assumptions, labor estimations, development efforts, licensing costs, and tooling investments.
- Define and defend cost gaps through fact-based analysis and credible technical evidence.
- Work closely with Engineering teams to identify optimized technical solutions balancing functionality, quality, timing, and cost.
- Lead competitive benchmarking activities for software, hardware, electronics, and connected services.
- Conduct supplier technical reviews and plant visits (GEMBA) to validate manufacturing and development assumptions.
- Analyze competitor architectures, features, software stacks, ECU distribution, and development approaches.
- Perform Design-to-Cost (DTC) assessments and Cost Optimization of Technical Solutions (C.O.S.T.).
- Evaluate alternative architectures, software strategies, and technical trade-offs to reduce overall lifecycle costs.
Profil:
A highly analytical engineering professional with a strong foundation in automotive software and electronics development, combined with cost engineering expertise. The ideal candidate can translate technical architectures into robust cost models, challenge supplier quotations through fact-based analysis, lead benchmarking initiatives, and influence engineering decisions to achieve best-in-class cost and performance targets across vehicle programs.
- 3-8 years of experience in Cost Engineering, Product Costing, Software Estimation, Electronics Engineering, Purchasing, or Product Development.
- Strong automotive industry experience.
- Experience managing cross-functional projects and stakeholder engagement.
- Experience with supplier negotiations and benchmarking activities.
- Excellent negotiation and influencing skills.
- Project management and stakeholder management expertise.
What You'll Love About Working Here
Digital Campuses and Academy
Our engineering academy offers more than 60000 hours of training, as well as our digital campus on GenAI, data, and sustainability, supporting digital learning in the flow of work from awareness to expert certifications.
Engineering Horizons
A global conference crafted exclusively for Capgemini Engineering colleagues where excellence takes center stage.
Worldwide Leader of Engineering Services
Capgemini Engineering combines its broad industry knowledge and cutting-edge technologies in digital and software to support the convergence of the physical and digital worlds.
Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem.
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