Powertrain Validation Engineer - EV Systems

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life‑saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits.

The Component and System Hardware Validation team is responsible for ensuring components and subsystems on our vehicles meet all functional and reliability targets needed to facilitate our autonomous mobility service. Our team has an action‑biased culture marked by integrity, humility, competence, and passion for the mission and the systems we design.

As a Validation Engineer, you will be responsible for establishing and executing a robust and rigorous validation process from ‘requirements development’ through ‘report approval’. You will support our Powertrain Validation in the Vehicle Development team working with our supplier partners and testing partners to ensure that our Validation targets are satisfied.

• Develop and maintain the Design Validation Plan and Reports (DVP&Rs) to validate the Powertrain components such as Electric Drive Unit, Inverter, Battery Balance Box, DCDC and HV Harnesses for Mechanical, Environmental, Performance, Compliance and Abuse testing.
• Execute the Validation testing as outlined in the DV plan.
• Conduct regular update meetings.
• Collaborate with design engineers to ensure that requirements are clearly defined and captured within the validation plan.
• Manage the supplier‑owned testing by conducting weekly cross‑functional DVP meetings with suppliers and providing testing progress updates to stakeholders internally.
• Create and maintain detailed documentation for DVP&Rs, Test Procedures, RFQs and Test Reports.
• Travel to the test facilities to review test setups to ensure flawless execution of the Validation tests.
• Identify appropriate test assets and accessories, data acquisition systems, and sensors to ensure high‑quality test data.
• Assist in DUT teardowns and analysis.
• Analyze test data to create graphs, charts, tables, calculations, etc., and provide clear and concise reporting of test results.
• Communicate test findings to stakeholders and support issue resolution.
• Conduct preliminary root cause analysis in case of a test failure to verify the test procedure and execution, test setup, DUT conditions, etc.
• Design test fixtures necessary to complete testing.
• Manage validation schedule to ensure appropriate test assets are available and critical path items are identified.

• BS or MS in mechanical engineering, or related relevant field.
• 5+ years of Powertrain test or validation experience.
• Experience working with DFMEAs and root cause analysis.
• Experience with requirements management tools (Polarion or equivalent).
• Experience with a wide variety of lab and measurement equipment including Cyclers, CANlyzer, DAQ, Power supply/E‑load, Oscilloscope, Accelerometers and Thermocouples.
• Experience with Project Management tools such as JIRA and Kanban methodology.

• Familiarity with 3D design tools. CATIA 3DX or CATIA V5 or Solid Works preferred.
• EMI / EMC validation experience.
• Familiarity with Vector tools (CAN analyzer or similar).

USD 110,000–130,000. Actual salary offered depends on location, candidate’s qualifications, skills, education, training and experience.

ALTEN Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.

ALTEN USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Drug Screening Requirement:
As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug‑free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre‑employment drug screening as a condition of hire.