Senior Engineer, Powertrain Controls Validation

• →Own validation activities for powertrain, vehicle motion control, and chassis control systems across SIL, HIL, and vehicle environments.
• →Develop validation strategies based on system requirements, control architecture, expected vehicle behavior, and failure modes.
• →Validate control functionality across nominal, boundary, transient, degraded, and fault conditions.
• →Investigate complex system-level issues and drive them toward root cause by connecting observed vehicle behavior to controls, software, calibration, network communication, sensors, and actuators.
• →Work closely with Controls, Systems, Software, Calibration, Functional Safety, and Vehicle Engineering teams.
• →Identify gaps in requirements, control behavior, interfaces, diagnostics, and validation coverage.
• →Develop efficient and repeatable test methodologies while maintaining strong engineering judgment rather than relying exclusively on scripted testing.
• →Support vehicle testing, issue reproduction, data collection, and technical debugging.
• →Clearly communicate technical findings, risks, and recommendations to engineering teams.
• →Help improve the overall validation approach by bringing strong controls and vehicle-level engineering fundamentals to the team.

Minimum Qualifications:

• →Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Controls Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related technical field is required.  Master's degree or higher education is preferred. 
• →Strong fundamentals in control systems, vehicle dynamics, and automotive systems.
• →4+ years of experience validating embedded automotive control systems using SIL, HIL, vehicle testing, or a combination of these environments.
• →Ability to interpret requirements, control logic, state machines, signal interfaces, and system architecture.
• →Strong data-analysis and root-cause-debugging skills.
• →Ability to understand the physical behavior behind the signals instead of relying solely on test results or automated PASS/FAIL criteria.
• →Experience working with CAN and automotive communication signals.
• →Ability to independently take an ambiguous technical problem, structure the investigation, collect the right data, and drive it toward resolution.
• →Strong ownership, curiosity, and a can-do attitude.