Lead Verification & Validation Engineer

Were ALTEN Technology USA an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to lifefrom advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3000 experts across North America we partner with leading companies in aerospace medical devices robotics automotive commercial vehicles EVs rail and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group57000 engineers in 30 countrieswe deliver across the entire product development cycle from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA youll collaborate on some of the worlds toughest engineering challenges supported by mentorship career growth opportunities and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued supported and inspired to grow.

We are looking for a Lead Verification & Validation Engineer to join our team. You will be responsible for designing developing and executing V&V activities to ensure that our software meets the highest standards of safety and this role you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our automotive systems and serve as a technical lead across the V&V organization guiding junior engineers and shaping validation strategy at the program level.

What youll do:

• Lead V&V strategy definition and own the end-to-end validation plan from concept through production release setting direction for the broader team
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to validation engineers reviewing test plans debug approaches and automation frameworks
• Serve as the primary technical escalation point for complex system-level failures driving root cause analysis and cross-functional resolution
• Design build and maintain complex automotive system-level test benches to validate automotive systems with a focus on automation
• Develop comprehensive verification and validation plans for automotive software systems and features
• Design and execute test cases and test scripts to verify system functionality performance and safety
• Develop and implement automation scripts and tools to enhance testing efficiency and accuracy
• Integrate hardware and software components to create reliable and scalable test environments
• Lead debug of issues encountered working with cross-functional teams across the organization on identifying root cause confirming fixes and providing guidance on protecting against future regressions
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including software developers controls engineers and systems engineers to define and implement V&V strategies
• Continuously improve testing processes and tools to enhance efficiency and effectiveness
• Prepare and present detailed reports on verification activities and results to stakeholders

Youll have:

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
• 5 years of experience in the automotive or relevant industry
• Strong understanding of automotive systems embedded software and control systems
• Demonstrated experience with automotive testing instrumentation and tools
• Proficiency in automotive communication protocols such as CAN LIN Ethernet and FlexRay
• Working knowledge of IDLs such as DBC LDF ARXML and work with internal IDLs and frameworks
• Experience with automotive or aerospace HIL test benches particularly with dSPACE Vector VT or similar platforms
• Experience writing and executing automated and manual tests
• Deep expertise in the EE architecture and integration of complex automotive systems including interactions across multiple domains (e.g. body powertrain chassis ADAS) and ECUs
• Proven track record of collaborating with large cross-functional teams across hardware software and systems engineering
• Deep understanding of software development lifecycle and automotive testing methodologies
• Experience in system-level debugging and root-cause analysis across software and hardware boundaries
• Proficiency in understanding wiring and logical schematics network diagrams and harness drawings
• Ability to define and drive system validation plan from concept to production

Even better you may have:

• Familiarity with safety-critical software development and industry standards like ISO 26262
• Proficiency in programming languages such as C/C Python or MATLAB
• Experience testing fully electric vehicles

Salary Range: $140000-$175000/K

The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including but not limited to location the candidates combination of job-related knowledge qualifications skills education training and experience

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability protected veteran status age genetic information or pregnancy.

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