Felipe Santafé Iribarren

Senior Manager at Toyota Motor Europe

Brussels Metropolitan Area

About

Experience

  • Senior Manager at Toyota Motor Europe
    Jul 2023 - Present · 3 yrs

    Responsible for the Chassis Control department, developing Brake Control and Steering System of European production models. Developing and deploying methodology for development and validation of Chassis Control software functions and functional integration.

  • Toyota Motor Europe (11 yrs 1 mo)
    • Manager
      Jan 2022 - Dec 2022 · 1 yr

      Leading a team responsible for developing concepts for ADAS systems with use of big data, defining the performance target of Automated Functions and developing tools and toolchains for validation of active safety systems

    • Manager
      Jan 2018 - Dec 2021 · 4 yrs

      Responsible for the development of Brake Control systems of European production vehicles. Leading implementation of MBD for the development and validation of Chassis Control functions and functional integration.

    • Senior Project Engineer
      Dec 2011 - Dec 2017 · 6 yrs 1 mo

      Responsible engineer for development of brake system and components of European production vehicles and project lead. Lead foundation brake development function for life cycle activities and next global platform. Responsible for Model Based Development implementation in Brake system and components, and NVH competency development lead. B-rank expert for implementation of DRBFM quality tool in the chassis systems expertise area.

  • Design Engineer at Toyota Motor Corporation
    Nov 2010 - Nov 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Selected for 1 year company transfer in Toyota technical headquarters in Japan in order to develop a European front brake module for new Yaris Hybrid model

  • Project Engineer at Toyota Motor Europe
    Aug 2006 - Oct 2010 · 4 yrs 3 mos

    Engineer responsible for Design and Evaluation of Brake Systems Yaris and Avensis and vacuum piping development for Yaris MMC. Part of Toyota Graduate Development Program during first 18 months: Toyota Way, PDCA and Toyota Business Practices. 2 months cross divisional placement in TME Vehicle NVH evaluation function and 2 months stay at Toyota's UK plant, experiencing the Toyota Production System on the line.