Staff Vehicle Test Engineer

ALSO • Palo Alto, CA

8d • $190,000 - $225,000 • Onsite

About The Position

ALSO is looking for a Vehicle Test Engineer to play a key role in defining and supporting reliability/durability and feature testing. ALSO is an electric mobility company originally conceived as a part of Rivian. They are a passionate team of builders, dreamers, doers and innovators, focused on creating entirely new (not to mention, innovative and delightful) vertically integrated, small EVs designed to meet the global mobility challenges of today and tomorrow. Their mission is to inspire everyone to ride ALSO—replacing many local car, truck and SUV miles with ones on vehicles that are more affordable, more enjoyable and 10-50x more efficient.

Requirements

• BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of professional experience in systems test engineering, vehicle testing, or vehicle durability testing.
• Experience with instrumentation and data collection. E.g. accelerometers, strain gauges, force transducers, fleet ops, data logging equipment and signal conditioning
• Core understanding of systems engineering processes and methods.
• Experience with testing vibration, shock, thermal cycling, and high temperature and humidity, corrosion tests
• Experience with homologation, and durability testing.
• Requirements management tools such as JAMA.
• Planning and organization tools (JIRA/Confluence)
• Working knowledge of automotive communication protocols (CAN, CAN FD, SPI) and Vector tools
• Comfortable riding 2 wheeled vehicles of various speed and power levels

Responsibilities

• Define, create, and drive execution for overall vehicle durability/environmental test targets while working cross functionally with systems and sub-systems engineering teams.
• Support test planning and execution for fleet based validation activities to help drive edge case extraction, localized product use testing, and data ingestion.
• Support definition and realization of KPI’s to drive product use metrics.
• Supporting vehicle integration and measurement equipment setup, configuration, and operation.
• Drive testing at vehicle level for software features, performance, functionality, and stability.
• Drive traceability and directly support defect triage and management.
• Support planning and execution of vehicle tests to identify and align to homologation topics.

Benefits

• Robust health coverage — excellent health, dental, and vision insurance covered up to 100% by ALSO, with FSA & HSA options
• One Medical membership and dedicated insurance advocates
• Rich fertility and family-building benefits with Progyny
• Flexible time off
• 401(k) match

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior