Vehicle Test Engineer

Project description

Mechatronics technical and system validation onsite support of vehicle prototyping and pre-series activities at major global OEM production site located in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Position assumes participation in majority of prototyping activities that include but not limited with collecting electrical and other measurements, hardware installation, software management including over the air updates, management of components logistics, system validation / testing, data collection and defect root cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Prototype Vehicle Testing:

• Test planning

• Test execution

• Defect reporting

• Trace and other evidence collection

• Test results analysis and reporting Measurement Equipment Support

• Measurement Equipment Install / Un-Install

• Equipment health check / Troubleshooting, analysis and escalation

• Inventory Tracking Hardware Management

• Retrofitting

• Maintenance Activities Software Management

• Retrofitting / Software Updates (Headunit / Individual ECUs) - Over the Air Updates Checklist based testing

• Test planning / documentation

• Test Execution ADAS and Powertrain Data Collection Vehicle preparation support Root Cause Analysis support

SKILLS

Must have

• 3+ years of hand-on experience as a test engineer in Automotive industry Experience with onsite support of various technical (mechanical/electrical) activities at vehicle production and assembly stations / sites. Experience with vehicle testing / HIL testing. Experience with measurement equipment installation, removal and usage. Experience with vehicle data and trace collection. Experience with software updates including over-the-air updates. Understanding of mechanical and electrical engineering basics sufficient to perform parts and component replacement at a station and troubleshooting of basic issues. Basic understanding of vehicle validation principles and process. Vehicle diagnostics experience and understanding of principles. Vector CANoe / CAN protocol Automotive SPICE knowledge CAN protocol / Vector CANoe. Excellent communication skills. Working knowledge of ECUs functional behavior: climate control, body electric, communication electronic, infotainment, ADAS, vehicle driving dynamics, drivetrain electronics

Nice to have

Software development, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering background. Root cause analysis experience. Experience with vehicle prototypes.