Our client, a AV Manufacturing company, is looking for a Validation Engineer for their Foster City, CA location.
Responsibilities:
The Component and System Hardware Validation team at client is responsible for ensuring our components and sub-systems on the client robotaxi 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 client mission and the systems we design.
Building real products here and are looking for doers to join us.
As a validation engineer supporting interior trim and seating, you will be responsible for establishing and executing a robust and rigorous validation process from requirements development through report approval.
This will include managing internal and external testing resources as well as supplier-led validation activities which ensure durability, reliability, and safety targets are satisfied.
Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand root causes of failures, identify mitigation strategies, and incorporate learnings into new designs.
Develop and manage test plans to validate mechanical, electrical, and environmental failure modes around our interior trim and seating systems
Collaborate with design engineers to ensure that requirements are clearly defined and captured within the validation plan
Identify appropriate test assets, data acquisition systems, and sensors to ensure highquality test data
Analyze test data to provide clear and concise reporting of test results
Support DFMEA activities to ensure that all potential failure modes are adequate covered within the validation plan
Support root cause failure analysis activities during development, validation, and deployment
Design test fixtures necessary to complete testing
Manage validation schedule to ensure appropriate test assets are available and critical path items are identified
Requirements:
BS or MS in mechanical engineering, or related relevant field
2+ years of test or validation experience related to interior automotive trims and seats.
Experience with failure and root cause analysis
Experience generating and managing DFMEAs
Experience with requirements management tools (Polarion or equiv.)
Experience with automotive test standards
Familiarity with 3D design tools. CATIA 3DX or CATIA V5 or SolidWorks preferred