Automotive Infotainment Lead Function Owner - Speech Quality and Sound

Job Requirements Automotive Infotainment Lead Function Owner - Speech Quality and Sound

Experience: 8+ years | Location: Onsite - Czech Republic | Positions: 1

Languages: English - mandatory; Czech - mandatory; German - optional

Role Summary

Lead the concept, development, and release of the speech quality and sound functional areas across head-unit and infotainment architectures and multiple vehicle programs. Act as the technical authority and single coordination contact toward the customer and development suppliers, owning area-level delivery and the weekly cadence.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and submit the long-term development concept for the assigned functional areas at key vehicle milestones.

• Author and approve detailed functional and technical specifications and prepare them for customer sign-off.

• Own milestone planning and track delivery with development suppliers.

• Manage open points, change requests, and defect resolution end to end, including feasibility assessment and formal release recommendations.

• Chair weekly status meetings, maintain the open-point list, and produce management-level decision material.

• Coordinate the onsite and offshore team members for the functional area and act as the primary point of contact.

Work Experience Required Skills

• Deep domain knowledge of speech quality and sound within automotive infotainment.

• Requirements engineering and ALM discipline, including specification authoring and traceability.

• Automotive E/E architecture and vehicle bus knowledge.

• Strong supplier, stakeholder, and small-team coordination.

• Tools and systems: DOORS and Codebeamer for requirements and ALM; JIRA and Confluence for tracking and documentation; the group defect tracking system and release management system (accessed through the customer portal); engineering-change, parts-ordering, and document management systems (accessed through the customer portal); Power BI for status reporting; SharePoint, Teams, and Copilot for M365 for collaboration. Standards: ASPICE, V-model, ISO 26262, UNECE R155/R156, CSMS/SUMS.

Good to Have

• Functional safety and cybersecurity release-gate exposure (ISO 26262, UNECE R155/R156).

• Experience coordinating mixed onsite and offshore delivery.

• Familiarity with AOSP/AAOS-based infotainment platforms.

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electronics, Telecommunications, Computer Science, or related engineering.

Benefits

• • depending on seniority, our budget for the role is between 90,000 - 130,000 CZK gross/month