Feature Specialist - Vehicle Connectivity & Validation

Alten USA • Auburn Hills, MI • 2h ago

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.

Job Description:

The Client Connected Vehicle Team is revolutionizing the vehicle ownership experience through the invention of software products delivered to Uconnect customers through a variety of digital touchpoints including mobile apps, websites, and in-vehicle infotainment systems.

The team is seeking candidates that will be responsible for Connected Services, Vehicle Access, Start, & Security voice of the customer (VoC) development, customer functional objectives target setting, and feature test plan creation.

The Feature Specialist will support the vehicle integration and validation process by owning and maintaining functional objective library, creating test plans and procedures, supporting tech club, and working alongside the cross functional teams to develop new features within their domain. The Feature Specialist also support the Platform Engineers in triaging issues found on vehicle that fall into their domain as well as support any required ride and drive events.

They will define and describe both functional and dysfunctional behavior, perform appropriate risk analysis (HARA) and be responsible for writing end-to-end test plans. The specialist will also lead benchmarking activities for their domain.

Domain Areas:

FOTA, Vehicle Access/Start, Vehicle Security/Theft, Remote Operations, Regulatory/Safety, Connected EV

Key Job Duties

Core feature owner/CFO library owner/author

Test Plan and Procedure creator & owner

Support issue resolution, triage, testing, for their specific domain

Benchmarking lead

Technical Leads

Position Requirements Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent from an ABET accredited program

Three years of engineering experience in automotive industry

Strong desire to understand customer wants and vehicle development program

Demonstrated communication skills (written and oral)

Strategic thinker

Strong understanding of operational architecture, defining use cases, vehicle and software life cycle

Strong leadership and interpersonal skills

Demonstrated ability to summarize and present work

Proven ability to deliver in a fast-paced work environment with minimum assistance

Experience with vehicle connectivity design and/or testing

Preferred Qualifications:

Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent from an ABET accredited university

Working knowledge of FMEA, design validation (DV) and process validation (PV) (DVPR), and test planning

Three years of vehicle integration and validation experience or equivalent

Previous experience in feature design, system design or integration

DFSS Green Belt

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.

Please beware of job seeker scams and see this important notice (https://www.alten.com/careers/job-offers/) on our careers page for more information about our recruiting process.

Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.

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