Vehicle System Integration Engineer

Aptiv•Troy, MI

14h

About The Position

The Vehicle System Integration Engineer is responsible for vehicle-level checkout and integration of Autonomous Driving features, which may include Adaptive Cruise Control and Lane Centering. The role brings sensors, ECUs, and algorithms together and integrates them into production, mule, or prototype vehicles at different stages of vehicle development. The successful candidate is self-starting, hands-on, able to manage multiple projects, and focused on satisfying internal and external engineering teams.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a similar field.
At least 1 year of vehicle-level systems experience in Autonomous Driving vehicles, or at least 3 years of vehicle-level systems experience in Vehicle Chassis, Vehicle Communication Networks, or Vehicle Homologation.
At least 1 year of experience with vehicle-level systems requirements review and test case development.
Understanding of vehicle CAN or Automotive Ethernet buses and related tools such as Vector CANoe, CANalyzer, and CANape.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a similar field.
Basic working knowledge of Autonomous Driving or ADAS technology.
Comfort leading weekly meetings with internal and external customer teams to communicate systems topics, propose solutions, and explain data in technical depth.
Direct experience with Polarion or similar centralized requirements or test-case management software for documentation and traceability.
Vehicle testing experience in Autonomous Vehicles, Vehicle Dynamics, or Homologation.
Experience with NHTSA Levels 1–5 Autonomous Vehicles.
Technical writing proficiency for vehicle integration specifications, system architecture documents, and system requirements.
Functional Safety knowledge or experience.
Cybersecurity knowledge or experience.
Analytical, creative, and collaborative problem-solving abilities.
Confidence leading and empowering others.
Hands-on, entrepreneurial approach to experimentation.
Resilience and willingness to treat challenges as learning opportunities.

Responsibilities

Lead vehicle-level system activities with a systems engineering team on an OEM program, including feature definition with the OEM, requirements definition and decomposition, planning, change-request management, issue triage support, vehicle integration support, and reporting results and issues.
Write feature-level requirements in Polarion and coordinate with other teams to create lower-level requirements that provide full-system definition and traceability.
Work with the Test team to define test cases and ensure each requirement can be tested and traced.
Collaborate with sensor and ECU hardware, algorithm, and testing teams to define Aptiv system solutions.
Collaborate with the Prototype Vehicle Build team to ensure Aptiv instrumentation is integrated into vehicles or system benches and functions as designed.
Work within an Agile development framework.