Principal Solutions Engineer Automotive

• Accurately identify customer needs and provide estimates for integrated system solutions.
• Interact with customers NI staff external partners and external suppliers to support the design implementation and sustainment of custom test solutions.
• Lead high-level collaborative design efforts for integrated solutions.
• Ensure adherence to development processes and standard methodologies.
• Drive the development of reusable software to be utilized by multiple projects.
• Review work quality and mentor less experienced engineers.
• Collaborate with Project Managers to develop efficient technical solutions to project challenges.
• Oversee the technical deliverables for the given project ensuring they meet quality standards.
• Serve as the technical lead in the design of systems workflows and architectures that enable the future state to be achieved using NI and NI ecosystem tools and offerings.
• Guide the introduction of new systems and workflows to achieve the customers desired future state (business outcome).
• Provide training mentoring and development for new talent in the ADAS VSE EV Power Conversion and Electronics spaces.
• Lead customer technical onsite tasks and help advance opportunities.

You will be accountable for delivering software solutions that adhere to industry best practices leveraging your business knowledge to identify risks and challenges and proactively providing technical solutions. You will be motivated to tackle and solve complex problems and you will be driven and energized to persist until these highly complex challenges are resolved.

• BS degree or higher in Electrical Engineering Computer Science or a related discipline.
• 8 years of experience in complex system or application development system integration and/or the test and measurements industry.
• Experience serving as a technical lead to release high-quality solutions or products.
• Demonstrated technical leadership in planning coordinating specification development requirements gathering monitoring quality assurance and status reporting of technical deliverables.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and ability to lead the resolution of critical issues and customer escalations through effective collaboration with stakeholders.
• Proven ability to use multiple programming languages (LabVIEW C# C Python etc.) in software design and implementation.
• Familiarity with NI products and platforms such as LabVIEW TestStand VeriStand LabVIEW RT/FPGA and PXI/cRIO platforms.
• Customer service-oriented mindset.
• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) with experience working directly with customers engineers and business partners.
• Availability to travel up to 25% of the time.
  

• Deep understanding of electrical and electronics engineering principles related to test engineering.

• Familiarity with industry best practices for designing high-power panel systems that meet standards safety and certification requirements.

• Understanding of automotive communication networks and protocols.

• Strong knowledge of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) Electronic Control Units (ECUs) and sensors such as cameras RADAR LiDAR and ultrasonic sensors.

• Familiarity with Azure DevOps GitHub and CI/CD tools like Jenkins.