Validation Engineer, Controller Integration

ALTEN Technology USA • Foster City, CA

57d • $110,000 - $120,000

About The Position

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more. As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing. When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow. Validation Engineer, Controller Integration We are looking for an electronic controller unit (ECU) validation engineer to assist in the testing of our delivered controllers. In this role, you will be responsible for validating component and sub-system requirements on incoming firmware and hardware ECU revisions. You will be part of a team that develops, validates, and continuously improves the robot’s features and capability to production maturity. You will engage cross-functional teams and hold yourself, teammates, and the larger organization accountable for meeting requirements. You will also be responsible as an expert on validation for a handful of controllers on the vehicle, enabling you to deep dive into issues and help deliver our robot. This role is in the Vehicle Development organization leading verification and validation activities for controller hardware and firmware integration testing to support the our mission.

Requirements

• BS or higher in electrical/electronics/systems/mechanical engineering or related field.
• 3-5 years of experience in controller validation, controller integration, or related field.
• Experience debugging complex electrical, electronic, and software-controlled systems.
• Experience diagnosing CAN, LIN or Ethernet network issues.
• Experience in MATLAB, Python, C++ or equivalent tools for modeling and analysis.
• Able to communicate complex technical issues in simple, definitive and accurate terms.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Vector tools.
• Experience in failure analysis, fault trees or hazard and risk analysis.
• Experience in automating controller verification steps.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute firmware and hardware integration test plans on new hardware components and firmware features.
• Verify bootloader, power management, network communication, and other ECU requirements.
• Troubleshoot and root cause electrical issues during component bring-up in manufacturing and fleet operation settings.
• Provide feedback to Vehicle System Engineers for design-related issues and collaborate on containments/long-term solutions.
• Examine log data and source code to identify and debug issues at the system level.
• Collaborate across mechanical, electrical, system architecture, firmware development, and firmware validation teams to understand new component level hardware/software changes being developed and identifying test plans to validate the changes.
• Conduct initial system bring-up and perform integration tests at the vehicle level to validate design assumptions.
• Develop early prototypes and test benches to de-risk new technologies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees