Senior R&D Resident Engineer & Front office
About this role
Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.
The Front Office / Resident R&D Engineer:
Creates and manages relationships between Technical Customer Teams and Valeo in the field of R&D projects, in order to increase intimacy with the customer: Business and Development
Responsible of alerting in case of potential issues in technical relationship between Valeo and Customer
To support acquisition projects: RFI / RFQ
- Responsible to deliver accurate and direct information from customer sources (technological road map, customer benchmark) to support business development before receiving RFQ
- Analyses and makes pre-evaluation of customer technical requests and translates/ensures perfect understanding of requirements by VALEO Project Teams.
- Participation in the creation and presentation of technical & commercial offers in coordination with RFQ Teams of the DC’s
- Ensure the correct understanding of the customer expectations. To get approval from customer about Valeo technical concept during RFQ phase: negotiate to get technical green light
To support projects development: P1 SOP and after
- Technical interface (bi-directionnal) between Customer Technical Teams and Valeo R&D PTM, including on site meetings, as a list of open points, customer compliance matrix approval, drawings, specifications, specific customer documentation, customer standards, manuals, translations, etc.
- Responsible to identify technical customer changes and supports to get a technical agreement from customer on Engineering Change Requests (ECRs)
- Supports information data exchange between customer and Valeo, with right usage of specific customer tools
- Supports and manages necessary approvals from the customer (drawings, software deliveries or its deviations)
- Coordinates R&D Team during the night drive test preparation (or other R&D technical validation activities) and participation to System and Vehicle testing with Customer
- Participate to validation activities at vehicle level with customer and ensure that the results are shared with P1 team
- For 0 km and Warranty Responsible for first level of technical analysis and collecting relevant information in order to facilitate the warranty analysis by Development Center
- Collect parts / bring parts from / to customer (flashing actions, prototypes sorting, support of returned parts analysis after durability tests at customer, etc…)
Manages local tech shows and events for PG communication and marketing teams
Applies the Valeo’s procedures and environmental, safety and security good practices
Job:
Customer ApplicationsOrganization:
PG/RO/PL Research & DevelopmentSchedule:
Full timeEmployee Status:
RegularJob Type:
Permanent contractJob Posting Date:
2026-08-11Join Us !
Being part of our team, you will join:
- one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development
- a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration
- more than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth
- a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development
More information on Valeo: https://www.valeo.com
Company at a glance
Valeo is a technology company and partner to all automakers and new mobility players worldwide. Valeo innovates to make mobility safer, smarter and more sustainable. Valeo enjoys technological and industrial leadership in electrification, driving assistance systems, reinvention of the interior experience and lighting everywhere. These four areas, vital to the transformation of mobility, are the Group's growth drivers.
Valeo in figures: 21.5 billion euros in sales in 2024 | 106,100 employees, 28 countries, 155 plants, 64 research and development centers and 19 distribution platforms at February 28, 2025. Valeo is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange
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Valeo, entreprise technologique, partenaire de tous les constructeurs automobiles et des nouveaux acteurs de la mobilité, œuvre pour une mobilité plus propre, plus sûre et plus intelligente, grâce à ses innovations. Valeo dispose d’un leadership technologique et industriel dans l’électrification, les aides à la conduite, la réinvention de la vie à bord et l'éclairage à l’intérieur et à l’extérieur du véhicule. Ces quatre domaines, essentiels à la transformation de la mobilité, sont les vecteurs de croissance du Groupe.
Valeo en chiffres: 21.5 milliards d'euros de chiffre d'affaires en 2024 | 106 100 employés, 28 pays, 155 sites de production, 64 centres de recherche et développement et 19 plateformes de distribution au 28 février 2025. Valeo est cotée à la Bourse de Paris.
Top Benefits
- Career growth opportunities
- Multi-cultural environment
- International collaboration
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