Senior Lead Validation Engineer - Automotive

Senior Lead Validation Engineer

The Senior Lead Validation Engineer is responsible to lead electrical feature validation and verification for specific vehicle programs and should be capable of working with suppliers, various Engineering Support teams including systems, wiring, design release engineers, Program Management, and Manufacturing teams as required to validate and resolve electrical issues to support successful vehicle launch. Responsibilities include managing and creating test plans for electrical features across the vehicle, developing, maintaining, and executing test plans at the vehicle level, reporting defects based upon test plan failures, managing issues and root cause analysis of issues found, providing feedback on System Requirements to ensure specs are testable, managing team budgets and tasks.

Candidate shall have a BS in Electrical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent, 6+ years experience in various automotive roles, experience in electrical systems design, development, or test engineering, experience in validation of complex systems and resource and financial budgets/allocation, experience in developing/scheduling DVP&R (Design Verification Plan and Report), aligning necessary resources, and detailed electrical test procedures, effective communication and presentation skills, ability to multitask many assignments and coordinate testing for numerous validation test engineers and programs, highly developed interpersonal/collaborative skills, ability to work independently, achieve deadlines, while exhibiting a high degree of proficiency in a fast-paced work environment with minimum assistance, demonstrated problem-solving skills and experience in leading projects, team leadership experience, the ability to engage and motivate team members, exceptional communication and facilitation skills with proven ability to communicate clearly and succinctly with executive management, record of successful and measurable process/performance improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities include developing the program budget and timeline, generation and ordering of the Bill Of Material (BOM), commissioning of the Test Properties – Plywood Buck, HIL, Vehicles, defining and managing the ECU tracking and Design Verification Plan (DVP), specification and requirements reviews, change requests, and lessons learned, managing issues and status reporting, program/design/platform reviews, maintaining strategic relationship with functional areas and managing deliverables for the vehicle program, ownership of program plan execution, managing all series cards and bulletin impact to the budget (Client, equipment, vehicles, etc.)

and program timing, responsible to ensure vehicle timing and requirements are provided to the team, developing the plan for test property types and quantities and their configurations, leading build coordination of PWB/VHIL/HIL properties (including securing a technician and simulators), ensuring on-time delivery and test property readiness to start testing per the plan, collecting Client assessments before program approval and tracking actual Client effort, determining vehicle count/needs for validation, obtaining approval, and submitting vehicle requests, developing and maintaining ECU (Electronic Control Units) tracking charts and Design Verification Plan (DVP) for the program, collecting software and verification reports, sharing with validation team and after validation is completed, publishing validated software for other functional vehicle custodians to use for development fleet updates, updating plywood buck and vehicle test properties before the start of every planned validation loop, collecting vehicle information such as original configuration/PROXI, vehicle scan reports, PINs for key programming, etc.,

managing test properties and reservation calendar, supporting vehicle level EMC testing, supporting End of Line (EOL) tester development, reviewing bulletins and change requests, developing validation timing for changes and providing detailed information to the validation team for validation planning, participating/presenting in program reviews and vehicle team meetings ensuring all deliverables meet milestones, escalating roadblocks and deliverables that are not on track to be met (or are late), leading and coordinating technical issue resolution, managing documentation reviews and supporting Lessons Learned process, supporting the Design Responsible(s), Design Lead(s), and Managers;

escalating tasks not completed and supporting the coaching of engineers, supporting assembly plant warranty, quality, and reliability meetings, ensuring compliance reports are completed on time to support program milestones, primary interface/lead for Product Related Issues and Investigations.