Tech Specialist, ADAS/AD Simulation Engineering

Lucid Motors•Newark, CA

About The Position

We are currently seeking a highly skilled technical expert responsible for setting up virtual simulations with Hardware-in-Loop (HiL)/bench setups for system validation. This position requires a professional with experience in automotive industry standard Hardware-in-loop systems for complex electronic systems. As the successful candidate, you will join a world-class Autonomous Driving/ADAS team in Lucid. Candidates should be excellent engineers and organizers that have demonstrated the ability to learn quickly and work effectively in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment. Our ideal candidate exhibits a can-do attitude and approaches his or her work with vigor and determination.

Requirements

BS minimum in System Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or similar and 10+ years of engineering experience in the automotive industry OR MS minimum in System Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or similar and 8+ years of engineering experience in the automotive industry
Minimum of 5+ years previous HIL experience in OEM or Tier-1 company

Nice To Haves

Experience in developing plant, control and vehicle dynamics models from scratch, model correlation and executing scenarios on cloud
Experience with ADAS/AD features such as ACC, Lane Keeping, AEB etc.
Understanding of Functional Safety (ISO 26262), SOTIF (ISO 21448), NCAP
Broad understanding of interactions between ADAS/AD and other mechanical, electrical and software components of vehicle
Experience with Vector tools: CANoe, CANape and CAPL
Proficiency with agile development tools and environments (Jira, Jama, …)

Responsibilities

Taking complete ownership of HIL and SIL setups & builds for ADAS/AD features validation with industry standard tools such as dSPACE, National Instrument or Applied Intuition tools.
Contribute to creating & updating the plant and control models & simulation setup; create & execute scenarios for features validation at ECU level, post-process results, generate report, discuss & present results to ADAS leadership for drawing appropriate conclusions.
Be responsible for developing necessary automation scripts to drive test cases that can be simultaneously executed in HIL and SIL solutions.
Correlate HIL and SIL results with actual vehicle test data as necessary.
Leverage state-of-the-art processes, validation tools, data transfer & analysis in a highly interactive and collaborative environment.
Facilitate and align with related cross-functional technical teams such as ADAS software development (motion planning, perception etc.), vehicle chassis, powertrain, infotainment for ADAS system level validation and development activities.
Work with suppliers as necessary and represent Lucid ADAS systems validation team.