Digital Car Key Project Engineer

Job Objective

• Act as the China Project Manager for Digital Car Key (DCK) programs, driving project planning, milestone tracking, risk management and successful delivery across multiple vehicle platforms and carlines.
• Lead ICCE and other protocol-related initiatives and ecosystem collaboration, coordinating with industry partners, standardization organizations, smartphone OEMs, suppliers, and internal stakeholders to support China-specific DCK requirements and future technology roadmaps.
• Serve as the New DCK ECU BTV, responsible for development governance, validation planning, release readiness, and vehicle integration activities throughout the product lifecycle.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across Germany, China, India, suppliers, and vehicle projects, ensuring alignment between software, hardware, cybersecurity, backend, homologation, testing, production, and after-sales organizations.
• Drive program execution and technical decision making for Digital Car Key features, managing dependencies, resource planning, issue escalation and change management for MB.OS architecture.
• Lead vehicle integration and rollout activities for Digital Car Key solutions, ensuring compatibility across vehicle EE architectures, backend systems, mobile ecosystems and future mobility services.
• Coordinate cybersecurity, homologation, compliance and certification activities, ensuring Digital Car Key solutions meet both global Mercedes-Benz standards and China regulatory requirements.
• Prepare and present management-level reports, steering committee materials, and executive decision proposals, driving alignment across business and engineering organizations.