Validation Engineer, Powertrain

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.

Location: Foster City, CA
On-Site: 5 days per week

The Component and System Hardware Validation team is responsible for ensuring components and subsystems on our vehicles meet all functional and reliability targets needed to facilitate our autonomous mobility service. Our team has an action-biased culture marked by integrity, humility, competence, and passion for the mission and the systems we design. We are building the future of public mobility and are looking for enthusiasts who would contribute to the cause. 

As a Validation Engineer, you will be responsible for establishing and executing a robust and rigorous validation process from ‘requirements development’ through ‘report approval’. You will support our Powertrain Validation in the Vehicle Development team working with our supplier partners and testing partners to ensure that our Validation targets are satisfied. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ultimately deliver a safe, well-tested and robust product to contribute towards our company goal to make personal transportation safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable—for everyone. 

Responsibilities 
    • Develop and maintain the Design Validation Plan and Reports (DVP&Rs) to validate the Powertrain components such as 
    • Electric Drive Unit, Inverter, Battery Balance Box, DCDC and HV Harnesses for Mechanical, Environmental, Performance, Compliance and abuse testing. 
    • Execute the Validation testing as outlined in the DV plan. 
    • Conducting regular update meetings 
    • Collaborate with design engineers to ensure that requirements are clearly defined and captured within the validation plan.
    • Manage the supplier owned testing by conducting weekly cross functional DVP meetings with suppliers and provide testing progress updates to stakeholders internally 
    • Create and maintain detailed documentation for DVP&Rs, Test Procedures, RFQs and Test Reports 
    • Travel to the test facilities to review the test setups to ensure flawless execution of the Validation tests 
    • Identify appropriate test assets and accessories, data acquisition systems, and sensors to ensure high-quality test data 
    • Assist in DUT teardowns and analysis. 
    • Analyze test data to create the graphs, charts, tables, calculations etc provide clear and concise reporting of test results 
    • Clearly communicate test findings to stakeholders and support issue resolution 
    • Conduct Preliminary root cause in case of a test failure to verify the test procedure and execution, test setup, DUT conditions etc were as expected 
    • Design test fixtures necessary to complete testing 
    • Manage validation schedule to ensure appropriate test assets are available and critical path items are identified 

Qualifications 
    • BS or MS in mechanical engineering, or related relevant field 
    • 5+ years of Powertrain test or validation experience. 
    • Experience working with DFMEAs and root cause analysis 
    • Experience with requirements management tools (Polarion or equiv.) 
    • Experience with a wide variety of lab and measurement equipment including but not limited to: Cyclers, CANlyzer, DAQ, Power supply / E-load, Oscilloscope, Accelerometers and Thermocouples 
    • Experience with Project Management tools such as JIRA and Kanban methodology. 

Bonus Qualifications 
    • Familiarity with 3D design tools. CATIA 3DX or CATIA V5 or SolidWorks preferred 
    • EMI / EMC validation experience 
    • Familiarity with Vector tools (CANanalyzer or similar)

Salary Range
    • $110,000-130,000
    • The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience 

ALTEN Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our Policy is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual’s age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.

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