Vehicle Electrical Control Systems (VECS) Staff Engineer

Polaris Inc.•Novi, MI

2d•$111,000 - $146,000

About The Position

Join Polaris as a Staff Vehicle Electrical Control Systems Engineer and help shape electrical features for Off-Road Vehicles from initial concept through vehicle realization. Combining systems engineering, model-based engineering, cross-functional technical leadership, and hands-on vehicle work, this role translates product concepts and customer needs into defined feature behavior, requirements, models, implementation plans, and integrated vehicle functionality. You will collaborate with product owners, architects, component owners, validation, manufacturing, service, safety, cybersecurity, regulatory, and program teams to deliver features that perform as intended. This position offers end-to-end technical ownership and a direct impact on the Polaris Off-Road Vehicle rider experience.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
Minimum of eight years of relevant experience in systems engineering, electrical control systems, embedded systems, or a related technical field.
Experience with requirements development, systems engineering, functional decomposition, interface definition, or requirements-management tools.
Experience with model-based engineering tools or methods such as MATLAB/Simulink, Stateflow, SysML, or UML.
Ability to translate ambiguous customer or business needs into clear technical behavior, decisions, and actionable requirements.
Strong communication and technical leadership skills, including the ability to facilitate alignment and move cross-functional teams toward decisions.
Working knowledge of CAN-based embedded systems and the ability to use vehicle-network data to diagnose system behavior.
Ability and willingness to work hands-on with vehicles, test equipment, software tools, and incomplete early-development systems.

Nice To Haves

Preferred experience in powersports, automotive, commercial vehicle, off-highway, aerospace, robotics, or another complex embedded-system industry.
Preferred experience with requirements-management platforms, modeling and simulation, vehicle-network and diagnostic tools, embedded software and controller concepts, programming or scripting, feature risk and compliance activities, and system-level verification environments.

Responsibilities

Own assigned electrical features from concept through vehicle realization, serving as the accountable technical leader for feature intent, requirements, cross-functional execution, integration, and readiness.
Define intended customer experiences and align product and engineering stakeholders on feature behavior, tradeoffs, acceptance criteria, and technical direction.
Author and maintain feature and function requirements that translate stakeholder goals into clear, testable, and traceable engineering expectations.
Develop logical behavior, functional architectures, interfaces, and requirements traceability using Codebeamer or similar tools.
Apply MATLAB/Simulink, Stateflow, and other modeling or simulation methods to evaluate concepts, identify edge cases, improve requirements, and support model-based development.
Lead cross-functional technical execution with component owners, validation, manufacturing, service, and vehicle program teams to deliver assigned features successfully.
Lead feature risk and compliance activities, including DFMEAs and engagement with functional safety, cybersecurity, regulatory, and intellectual-property teams.
Develop system-level test cases and integration plans, and perform vehicle testing, calibration, CAN-data analysis, issue triage, and production-readiness assessments.
Create virtual or physical prototypes when useful to clarify concepts, accelerate decisions, and validate the user experience.
Contribute to VECS engineering standards, guidelines, best practices, and templates that support continuous improvement.