Body Exterior Test & Validation Engineer

• Own whole-vehicle validation for body exterior systems: closures, sealing, water management, wind noise, lighting, and fit-and-finish.​

• Define validation strategies for extreme environmental exposure, corrosion, high-mileage durability, and high-pressure car wash conditions.​

• Establish validation routes, environmental chamber profiles, and aero/vibration scenarios for door closures, liftgates, glazing, and wiper/washer systems.​

• Support cross-functional alignment across Body Exterior, Closures, Sealing, Lighting, Electrical, Manufacturing, and Vehicle teams.​

• Develop vehicle-level test cases and translate exterior targets into test procedures, instrumentation strategies, and validation plans.​

• Lead validation campaigns and evaluation trips to proving grounds, public roads, and extreme climate regions.​

• Drive test execution and data collection using leak detection systems, thermal sensors, strain gauges, and accelerometers.​

• Ensure requirement-to-test traceability using tools such as Code beamer, Jama, or Jira; document results and sign-offrecommendations.​

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Human Factors/HCI, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.​

• 4+ years of experience in whole vehicle validation, full-performance testing, and vehicle-level verification testing.​

• Hands-on experience with CANoe, INCA, and validation instrumentation for vehicle network and sensor data.​

• Experience defining whole vehicle test plans (DVP) and tracking build/software changes across vehicle fleets.​

• Working knowledge of ALM/product tracking tools: Jama, Polarion, DOORS, MagicDraw, or Codebeamer.​

• Solid understanding of whole vehicle development phases and automotive-specific safety standards.​

• Experience testing complete vehicle systems for automotive-grade compliance and industry regulations.​

• English (C1-C2)
• 1 year contact 
• Location: Novi, Michigan 

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