Advanced Systems Engineer - Vehicle Systems

Vehicle Systems - Advanced Systems Engineer Summary

We currently have exciting opportunities for Advanced Systems Engineers to lead and participate in the vehicle development in our Advanced Development organization, located at our Indiana Technical Center in Carmel, IN. This position is part of our Advanced Safety & User Experience segment.

• Lead vehicle builds and checkout for internal and external within Aptiv vehicle builds and checkout.
• Indirectly lead technicians and vehicle preparation for the team’s activities.
• Lead all vehicle integration testing and system checkout for Systems and Software teams. Vehicle integration includes radars, vision, lidar, domain controllers, and navigation systems.
• Lead vehicle-level testing activities for advanced engineering projects, including test scheduling, planning, test procedure generation, test execution, data analysis, and results and issue reporting.
• Interface closely with other competencies to ensure requirements are properly provided and that the vehicle level requirements developed are properly implemented.
• Define vehicle architectures to develop and demonstrate GPO products.
• Vehicle architectures include power architecture, communication architecture, and system level architecture.
• Ensure vehicles are per defined vehicle architecture.
• Plan development activities and resources assignments utilizing a global team.
• Coordinate with others to ensure Systems deliverables are completed on time per project schedules, have proper content and meet both internal and customer quality standards.
• Plan and prioritize program deliverables with Project and Product Owners in AGILE program Iterations.
• Oversee the development/maintenance and adherence of project family common architectures.
• Identify opportunities for quality and productivity improvement and implement appropriate initiatives.
• Drive process, procedure, and methodology improvements to optimize work efficiency.
• Support pursuit activities and product demos.
• Design and execute vehicle feature benchmarking tests.
• Test and verify internally developed Active Safety vehicle features.
• Ensure team complies with the Automotive SPICE development requirements leveraging internal development processes.
• Interface with Aptiv’s strategic partners.

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
• 2+ years of vehicle-level testing experience in ADAS/Autonomous Driving, or 3+ years vehicle-level testing experience in one of the following areas:
  Durability/Reliability, Vehicle Dynamics, Homologation
• 1+ years of project leadership in an automotive testing environment
• 2+ years of experience supporting networking, IT support, Windows and Linux, installations and updates
• Strong analytic and problem‑solving skills
• Self‑motivated, well organized, flexible, works well with complex issues
• Ability to multi‑task and work in team environment
• Leadership skills
• Passionate about creating innovation cutting‑edge automotive safety products
• Hands on abilities for working vehicle builds.

• Engineering Master’s
• Experience integrating and testing ADAS systems involving Radar, Vision, and/or Lidar
• Comfortable leading meetings with internal/external customer teams to plan activities, communicate test results and describe data in technical depth
• Experience in data analysis and/or vehicle integration
• Experience working with remote Engineers, Technicians and Operators/Drivers
• Experience working in an AGILE environment using Scrum or Auto Scrum methodologies

• Experience with hardware / software interfaces and communication protocols such as CAN, CAN‑FD, Flexray, Ethernet
• Experience with CANalyzer/CANape
• Advanced knowledge of Linux Command Line, with most recent Ubuntu releases.
• Understanding of Linux networking (interface configuration)
• Installation and configuration of Linux PCs including:
  • Base install
  • Package additions (apt and other package managers, documentation of image creation, and backup)
• Advanced knowledge of Windows Command line (MS Windows).
• Understanding of Windows networking (interface configuration)
• Installation and configuration of Windows PCs…