Description
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic person to lead our System Software Verification and Validation (V&V) team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in automotive testing and a proven track record of managing complex testing projects.
Responsibilities
Validation Strategy and Planning
- Define and lead the system-level validation strategy for embedded software and vehicle systems, from early development through program release.
- Own the system-level test and validation plan, aligning requirements, risks, program objectives, and timing.
- Partner with systems, feature, software, and attribute owners to establish requirements traceability, test coverage, and clear acceptance criteria.
- Identify validation gaps early and ensure test plans, test cases, and scripts address functional and non-functional requirements.
System-Level Test Execution
- Lead validation across integrated systems, ECUs, software, interfaces, and vehicle domains at system level test properties and vehicles.
- Oversee integration, system, and acceptance testing to verify behavior across system boundaries and operating conditions.
- Coordinate test resources, environments, and schedules to meet program milestones.
- Ensure test results, risks, and release-readiness assessments are documented and communicated clearly and on time.
Issue Resolution and Quality
- Lead cross-functional investigations, including root-cause analysis, fix verification, and actions to prevent regression.
- Analyze test results and provide actionable feedback to development teams.
- Establish and monitor metrics for test coverage, execution, defect trends, and validation effectiveness.
Team and Stakeholder Leadership
- Lead, mentor, and develop validation and verification engineers; assign work based on team priorities and development needs.
- Manage customer validation requirements and present progress, results, and risks to senior leaders and stakeholders.
- Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, innovation, quality, and safety.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field.
- 12+ years of experience in automotive systems, embedded software, or system validation.
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers and managing competing program priorities.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, including experience working across hardware, software, systems engineering, and program teams.
- Experience defining and delivering system-level validation strategies from concept through production.
- Experience managing validation schedules, resources, or lab capacity.
- Familiarity with vehicle testing standards and customer-specific validation requirements.
- Strong understanding of vehicle E/E architecture, embedded software, control systems, and cross-domain integration.
- Experience with system-level testing across benches, HIL platforms, and vehicles; familiarity with tools such as Vector or dSPACE.
- Knowledge of automotive networks and related formats, such as CAN, LIN, Ethernet, FlexRay, DBC, LDF, and ARXML.
- Experience developing, reviewing, or guiding automated and manual test execution, including smoke and regression testing.
- Experience with test automation, smoke and regression testing, requirements traceability, defect triage, and system-level debugging.
- Ability to interpret electrical and logical schematics, network diagrams, and wiring or harness drawings.
- Working knowledge of Automotive SPICE, ISO 26262, or other applicable development and safety processes.
- Experience integrating validation and regression testing into continuous integration workflows.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
- Tuition assistance
- Established and active employee resource groups
- Paid time off for individual and team community service
- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.