Telematics Release Engineer

Overview

STG is a Preferred Vendor of a major Automotive Firm in MI. The client is actively looking for multiple Telematics Release Engineer
. STG has a 98% repeat business rate from existing clients and have achieved industry awards and recognition for our services. Crain s Detroit Business named STG to Michigan s Fastest Growing Companies list in both 2020 and 2019, Top IT Services Company s List in 2020, 2019, 2018, and Top Minority Business Enterprise List in 2020, 2019, and 2019. STG puts company CULTURE at the forefront of every business decision and employees are EMPOWERED and MEASURED for RESULTS.

Both TEAMWORK and INDIVIDUAL Performance is recognized and rewarded. These positions are based in MI for a large Fortune 500 Automotive firm. STG will provide immigration and permanent residency sponsorship assistance to those candidates who need it.

As a Product Development Engineer, the candidate will be a key contributor within a team responsible for managing and operating a fleet of test vehicles supporting vehicle software development and validation. This role focuses on vehicle operations, vehicle maintenance, software baselining, OTA and service software updates, scripting and tools development, and advanced root cause analysis across vehicle systems. You will own portions of the test-vehicle lifecycle, ensuring vehicles are properly configured, updated, maintained, and operational to support continuous software development, validation, and release activities.

The role requires close collaboration with technicians, software engineers, feature owners, and test teams to diagnose complex vehicle and software issues, improve operational efficiency, and enable high-quality software delivery.

• Manage and operate assigned test vehicles, ensuring readiness for software validation and release activities.
• Coordinate vehicle usage, availability, sign-out/sign-in, and configuration control to support multiple engineering teams.
• Oversee preventive, corrective, and predictive maintenance of test vehicles, including hardware, ECUs, Safety, power systems, and network components.
• Execute and manage vehicle software baselining activities, including flashing, configuration management, and version control across multiple ECUs.
• Perform OTA, service, manufacturing, and manual software updates on test vehicles; verify software integrity and system behavior post-update.
• Develop and maintain scripts and tools to automate vehicle auditing, health checks, log collection, dashboards, and reporting.
• Enhance operational tooling to improve fleet utilization, reduce manual effort, and increase repeatability and reliability.
• Perform advanced root cause analysis on vehicles and diagnose failures related to software updates, configuration issues, or vehicle behavior.
• Analyze logs, traces, diagnostics, and vehicle telemetry to isolate failures and document findings.
• Work closely with product, software, validation, and operations teams to align vehicle readiness with program milestones and sprint objectives.
• Provide accurate effort estimates for vehicle operations, software updates, and tooling tasks during sprint planning.
• Contribute to technical documentation, operational procedures, and best practices for vehicle software operations.
• Identify and drive continuous improvement initiatives related to vehicle management, software update reliability, and operational efficiency.

• Skills Required: Scripting, Software Testing, Test Automation, Test Execution, Root Cause Analysis, Fleet Management. Includes:
  1. Scripting / Software Testing — develop and maintain scripts (preferably Python, and/or C++ or similar) to support vehicle operations and efficiency.
  2. Test Automation — leverage automation to read vehicle diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs) from logs, CAN data, or diagnostic APIs, categorize and flag known error codes with remediation steps.
  3. Test Execution — support efficient test execution by preparing vehicles, ensuring correct software baseline, coordinating availability, and resolving blockers.
  4. Root Cause Analysis — investigate recurring faults, connectivity…