Senior Engineer - Vehicle Integration Testing
ElectraMeccanica Vehicles Corp., Canada
Job Description
Meet ElectraMeccanica, an innovative electric vehicle manufacturer that is ready to revolutionize the way people commute! Drawing on a 60-year legacy of building and delivering high-end custom cars, our flagship vehicle is a single-seat, electric vehicle called the SOLO (NASDAQ:SOLO). The provided driving experience is an unrivaled combination of exhilaration, affordability and environmental consciousness. Now, we are eager to open our doors to our new 18-acre US Assembly and Engineering Technical Center in Mesa, Arizona. Needless to say, it’s electrifying times and we want to invite you to seriously consider joining our expanding team!
About our team? ElectraMeccanica has heart amp; soul! We hire dedicated, passionate, respectful and engaged contributors, who enjoy creating, solving and challenging the status quo. We have a dedicated team of people and continually seek to hire those who are always willing to roll up their sleeves. If we just described your personal values and work ethic here, we definitely want you to read on to see if this position sparks your interest as well.
We are seeking a Senior Engineer-Vehicle Integration Testing to join our lean and agile Burnaby team. This role reports to the Testing Manager. The Senior Engineer-Vehicle Integration Testing joins the testing team and manages the vehicle level validation process activities during the product design cycle; Inclusive from product concept through to production launch.
Duties amp; Responsibilities:
General Requirements
- Identify test methods and standards required for vehicle level durability and performance evaluations.
- Provide input in the creation of vehicle, subsystem amp; component specifications, test procedures and other technical documents.
- Participate in the definition, implementation, and documentation of design verification and validation testing on new vehicle platforms, products as well as updates to existing products.
- Develop Vehicle development amp; Production validation test plans and procedures using a variety of different test methods as needed in order to validate vehicle performance targets.
- Including, but not limited to extended life test methods and overstress test methods.
- Participate and organize benchmarking of competitive vehicles, systems, components in order to define functional target and engineering specifications
- Organize the vehicle testing schedule, ensuring vehicle testing design validation plans (DVPs) are executed and completed in a timely manner.
- Identify instrumentation equipment required for vehicle testing.
- Install required instrumentation and setup data acquisition test configuration.
- Collaborate across cross-functional teams to identify root causes of non-conformance and testing failure/s.
- Contribute with the review of system and component designs, DFMEA’s, Continuous Improvement activities, and more.
- Technical Analysis of data, including written and verbal summaries; inclusive of Statistical amp; Graphical analysis as well as derive conclusions and recommendations based on test outcome.
- Prepare and present test reports and results to cross-functional teams.
Other Duties
- Other duties as occasionally outlined by company management.
- This role will be required to communicate with product buyers, vendors and other departments to ensure all components function effectively in ElectraMeccanica vehicles.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, or related field. A Master’s degree is considered an asset.
- 8 -10 years of experience with product validation is required for this role.
- Automotive experience is required for this role.
- Programming skills: C/C++/Python/Matlab/Simulink/Stateflow.
- Experience with engineering tools like Jira, Quartz, CentreStack, an asset. .
- Results-oriented individual that thrives in a self-driven environment.
- Collaborative team player.
- Experienced with design of automated test systems and simulations to effectively test products.
- Familiar with certification standards and experience with automotive compliance is an asset.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a variety of audiences.
- Must possess a valid driver’s license (legally able to drive a passenger car in Canada)
- Driver safety training qualified (test driver’s license) is preferred and considered an asset.
- Legally able to work in Canada.
Benefits
One last important note we work hard, but we play hard too! In fact, our new facility is planned to incorporate modern, dedicated spaces for our employees to dine, engage, relax, and play. We also provide the following comprehensive benefits pack