Vehicle Breadboard Test Engineer

We are the world’s top supplier of automotive test facilities, providing a full range of services to commercial automotive industry customers. Customers include not only the world’s major vehicle providers and other original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), but also clients from the international motor sports community.

As a Vehicle Electrical Breadboard Test Engineer, you can be part of the exciting Electric Technology that is happening in the Automotive Industry.   You will be working on the vehicles of tomorrow by using your knowledge and creativity to explore all the possibilities in a state of the art automotive test lab. 

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BRIEF OUTLINE OF SPECIFIC ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES  

• The Test Engineer is   responsible for reviewing electrical schematics and specifications to understand how electrical features are implemented in design, determining how they work, and defining how they should be wired/connected for subsystem level testing
• Interface with Design and Release engineers and suppliers to understand the how the electrical features in the vehicle operate; Identify the critical signal requirements and interfaces necessary for feature to operate properly outside the vehicle
• Develop a strategy to interface with the hardware to allow the functions to be simulated and tested outside the vehicle
• Work with hardware engineers to support the buildup of a test/simulation bench
• Stay up to date on new electronics and system being integrated into the vehicles
• Develop efficiency improvement actions for the technical information gathering process
• Work with the program team to get involved earlier in the planning process to support decisions making on build requirements
• Research and recommend new lab improvements and sustainment strategies
• Develop and enforce safe plans of actions for all test and facility activities
• Working with complete vehicle bread boards alongside customers
• Trouble shoot issues with the Bread Board
• Re-flashing modules/ vehicle computer calibration
• Adding or removing vehicle software
• Proving out the Bread Board for customer use
• Ensuring the Bread Boards have the proper and up to date electrical components and configuration
• Support Bread Board builds