Staff Engineer - HIL Integration

Staff Engineer – HIL Integration

Masters with 10+ yrs. (preferably PhD with 6+ yrs.) of experience in Mechatronics/EE/SW engineering
Extensive experience working with Automotive Systems or Mechatronics Products, from Body, Infotainment, Drive or Energy
Strong understanding, development and verification of plant and control models in MATLAB/Simulink for execution in hardware in the loop test environment, dSpace control desk and automation desk
Strong understanding of 1st principles in Engineering, result/solution oriented
Familiarity with SW for embedded systems, EE systems and architecture
Familiarity with A2B, CAN, Automotive Ethernet, LIN, LVDS communication protocols and Vehicle Network tools, such as CANalyzer, CANoe, etc.
Expertise with complex problem solving, data analysis, access/interpret/drive results with extended teams
Knowledge of Automotive design and development process, system requirements, and general engineering best practices
Good interpersonal and communication skills with a high level of integrity

Lead development and own of automotive HIL benches and frameworks to enable robust, stable system level testing across multiple vehicle systems
Lead test scope, schedule, and deploy bench integration with defined test requirements for simulator I/O, instrumentation, and automation solutions to enable vehicle design, development, and validation sign off
Develop test environment, instrumentation strategies, responsible for creating stable and representative test environments to perform automated testing and functional integration of distributed features
Collaborate with SW, HW teams, suppliers, function owners to ensure streamlined integration and test implementation, trouble shooting on test assets
Test bench integration across diverse systems, ECU’s, control units, sensors, and actuators into HIL system
Validates and troubleshoots simulator, automation solutions, vehicle systems within test environment for early detection and resolution/debug EE system components HW/SW issues
Expertise with manual, automated test execution for SW, analysis of test results and generation of test reports per sprint schedule
Leads continuous process improvements to expand automated testing scope, improve reliability and optimize execution
Testing experience using Hardware in the Loop equipment, software (e.g. dSpace, National Instruments), embedded controller networks (CAN, LIN) and the use of ECU diagnostic and network communication tools (e.g. CANoe, CANalyzer, Vehicle Spy)