System Engineer (m/f/d) - Product Portfolio Enhancement

Join Leibinger’s R&D team as a System Engineer responsible for enhancing product portfolios. You will own system-level performance, reliability, and compliance across series products, shaping requirements and architecture for improvements and lifecycle upgrades. You’ll lead ECM activities and drive cross-functional alignment to deliver robust, manufacturable solutions while optimizing quality and cost. The role blends engineering rigor with real-world impact in a globally successful, family-owned company known for fast decision-making and innovation.

• dynamic and impactful role
• flat hierarchies in a family-owned company
• strong values and international growth
• secure environment with team spirit
• short decision-making paths
• performance-based compensation and comprehensive benefits

• Take system-level ownership of existing series products ensuring performance, reliability, and compliance
• Define and maintain system requirements and architecture for enhancements and lifecycle improvements
• Lead and support engineering changes (ECM) across mechanics, electronics, software, and fluids
• Drive root cause analysis and resolve field issues, quality deviations, and performance gaps
• Identify and implement product improvements including quality, cost optimization, and obsolescence management
• Ensure technical alignment across R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and After-Sales during changes
• Contribute to continuous improvement of system design, robustness, and manufacturability
• Apply systems engineering methods and maintain proper documentation and traceability

• Master’s degree in Engineering or equivalent; Systems Engineering background is a plus
• 5+ years in industrial product development, ideally with series life responsibility
• Proven experience with multidisciplinary systems (mechanics, electronics, software, fluids)
• Strong understanding of PLM, product lifecycle management, change processes, and continuous improvement
• Solid systems engineering skills: requirements management, architecture, interfaces, risk analysis, validation
• Understanding of manufacturing constraints, cost drivers, and industrialization processes
• Experience with tools such as PLM, CAD, simulation, and requirements management tools
• Knowledge and application of AI tools is an asset
• Structured, analytical, hands-on mindset with ownership of product performance
• Excellent communication and coordination across functions
• Fluency in English; Tuttlingen-based with travel

• Excellent communication and coordination
• ownership and hands-on problem solving
• resilience and solution-oriented mindset
• Systems engineering (requirements management, architecture, interfaces, risk analysis, validation)
• Cross-disciplinary knowledge (mechanics, electronics, software, fluids)
• PLM