Senior Validation Engineer - Electronics Design

The role

You will develop and validate electronic control units for electric vehicles. This role involves the complete electronic hardware design lifecycle from concept to production launch.

What you will do

• Design, develop, modify, and validate electronic hardware throughout the product-development lifecycle.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for electronics verification and validation.
• Partner with systems and product engineering teams to translate product needs into hardware requirements.
• Develop and evaluate hardware architectures, circuit designs, and component selections.
• Perform reviews of schematics and PCB layouts to identify risks.
• Provide technical leadership in Design for Testability, Reliability, and Manufacturing.
• Develop design verification and validation strategies, plans, and test methods.
• Lead Design Verification Plan and Report and Production Validation Plan and Report activities.
• Define validation coverage for functional, electrical, environmental, and other requirements.
• Lead prototype bring-up, hardware characterization, and debugging.

Required qualifications

• Extensive experience developing and validating electronic hardware through the complete product-development lifecycle.
• Hands-on experience with electronic hardware architecture, circuit design, schematic capture, PCB layout review, prototype bring-up, debugging, and design validation.
• Subject-matter expertise in electronic hardware verification and validation, including electrical, functional, environmental, durability, and fault-injection testing.
• Experience developing and executing DVP&R and PVP&R activities for complex electronic products.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze test data, lead root-cause investigations, and translate findings into hardware design improvements.
• Product-development design experience with complex electronic systems.

Nice to have

• Strong cross-functional leadership, technical communication, and engineering mentorship skills.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Annual company performance bonus program
• Equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Health coverage
• Retirement savings
• Time off
• Family planning programs

About the company

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders addressing the challenges of electric vehicles through technology.