Senior Virtual Cloud Test Engineer; Cuttlefish

Senior Virtual Cloud Test Engineer (Must have Cuttlefish experience)

The Virtual Cloud Engineer will own the end-to-end test engineering for virtual ECUs—from VECU creation (AUTOSAR Classic/Adaptive) and restbus/environment modeling, to deterministic simulation, fault injection, conformance, diagnostics/flash, and scalable CI execution. You will build and operate a virtual test platform that exercises production software stacks (communication, diagnostics, safety/security, OTA readiness) with measurable coverage and release grade. You partner with software, systems, safety, cybersecurity, HIL, and OTA teams to ensure the virtual pipeline finds defects earlier than HIL/vehicle, at fleet scale.

VECU Build & Simulation Architecture – (35%)

• Define the VECU generation strategy for AUTOSAR Classic (RTE + BSW abstraction, virtual MCAL stubs) and Adaptive (POSIX targets, ara::com SOME/IP bindings), including OS abstraction, timers, timewarp, and determinism controls.
• Select and integrate VECU platforms (e.g., dSPACE VEOS/System Desk, Vector vVIRTUALtarget/CANoe4SW Server, ETAS COSYM/ASCET, AVL VIRTUAL TESTBED, Wind River Simics, Imperas/OVPsim, QEMU/Renode based flows) and manage tool qualification where applicable.
• Establish co-simulation topologies: MIL/Plant models (Simulink/Modelica/FMU/FMI), bus/network simulators, and virtualization of sensors/actuators with IO semantics and timing fidelity.
• Architect headless SIL farms (Docker/K8s runners, ephemerical test environments) executing parallel suites (thousands of SIL testcases per commit/nightly).
• Integrate CI/CD (Jenkins/Git Lab/Azure Dev Ops), artifact management (SBOM: SPDX/CycloneDX), test results (JUnit/Allure), and flaky test quarantine + triage dashboards.
• Implement golden capture/compare pipelines (PCAP/MDF4/CSV) and scenario versioning (Open SCENARIO/OpenDRIVE/ASAM OSI if AD/ADAS is in scope).

Operational Management – (15%)

• Ownership of Virtual Test topics in NAR markets
• Own the relationship with network operator, contract manufacturer, platform provider and lead strategic discussions and technical negotiations.
• Serve as technical authority for VECU testing; mentor engineers in XiL best practices, determinism, and modeling tradeoffs.
• Drive supplier alignment (Tier1/2) for virtual deliverables (VECU packages, ARXML/ODX/OTX, service catalogs, security plugins).
• Conduct design/test reviews, DFMEA/FMEA, and lead 8D on defects discovered in SIL with crisp reproduction artifacts.

Communication, Diagnostics & Flashing in SIL – (10%)

• Model and validate Automotive Ethernet stacks: SOME/IP & SOME/IP‑SD, DoIP, AVB/TSN where applicable; simulate VLAN/QoS and congestion scenarios.
• Exercise CAN/CAN‑FD, LIN, Flex Ray via restbus simulations; verify UDS services, ISO‑TP segmentation and XCP/CCP measurement/calibration flows.
• Implement DoIP‑routed UDS flashing in SIL with eligibility/state checks, A/B or recovery slots, anti‑rollback, and boot loader handshake emulation (timings, NRCs).
• Develop restbus models for gateways, sensors, actuators, and peer ECUs using Vector CANoe/CAPL (incl. CANoe4SW Server), Python, and co-simulation bridges.
• Build service catalogs and SOME/IP service mocks, including late‑joiner/re‑announce behaviors and instance collision tests; emulate SecOC/E2E protections.
• Create plant models (Simulink/Modelica, FMU/FMI) for closed‑loop testing of control functions; parameterize with production DBC/ARXML/LDF.
• Execute fault campaigns: bus saturation, frame loss/reordering, clock drift, time sync perturbations (gPTP), power cycles/brown‑outs (virt), memory pressure, and network fuzzing (UDS/DoIP/SOME‑IP).
• Apply protocol fuzzing (boofuzz, Scapy, Peach, AFL++ harnesses), mutation testing, and error seeding to validate diagnostic/communication hardening.
• Model electrical transients (ISO 76372, load dump) effects at the software boundary and verify recovery logic within the VECU.

• Excellent strategic thinking and communication skills.
• Analytical and conceptual thinking
• Experience in developing strategies for R&D
• Communication skills – interpersonal, presentation and written
• Integration – joining people, processes or systems
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