Electrical Vehicle Prototype Development Engineer

The role

You will support the development, configuration, commissioning, maintenance, and test readiness of Labcars, HIL benches, and related prototype electrical test assets. This role involves hardware and software integration, technical troubleshooting, and cross-functional build coordination.

What you will do

• Support development, bring-up, and commissioning of Labcars and prototype electrical test assets.
• Oversee component installation, wiring, harness replacement, and module software flashing.
• Perform network debugging across CAN, CAN FD, LIN, and Automotive Ethernet.
• Maintain hardware architecture, software configuration, and integration maturity for assigned assets.
• Compare engineering BOMs and configuration records against physically installed hardware.
• Identify and analyze the effect of build-phase changes on assigned assets.
• Troubleshoot and triage electrical, network, hardware, and software-configuration issues.
• Develop or execute formal commissioning, smoke-test, regression, and readiness procedures.
• Coordinate installation, flashing, and maintenance activities around shared-asset schedules.
• Maintain traceable records of hardware, software status, and configuration changes.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Computer, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in hardware-software integration, prototype vehicles, Labcars, HIL benches, board or system bring-up, manufacturing test, or comparable vehicle-systems engineering envi
• Proficiency reading electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, connector views, network topologies, harness documentation, PCB assemblies, and mechanical layouts.
• 3+ years of experience with vehicle communication protocols, including CAN, LIN, and Automotive Ethernet, and familiarity with CAN FD.
• 3+ years of experience using CANalyzer, CANoe, Wireshark, Vehicle Spy/VSPY3, Intrepid, Vector, or similar embedded networking and diagnostic tools.
• Experience supporting module programming, diagnostic activities, communication checks, controlled power-up, and post-flash verification.
• Experience writing and executing formal test plans, commissioning procedures, regression checks, or readiness checklists.
• Strong understanding of embedded control modules, power distribution, grounding, I/O, network communication, and subsystem dependencies.
• Ability to manage competing shared-asset requirements, direct technical work, track parts, and communicate readiness risks.
• Ability to work hands-on around prototype vehicles and test assets, inspect components in confined locations, and safely handle typical vehicle electrical hardware.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of modern electrical/electronic vehicle architectures, distributed control systems, zonal architectures, power distribution, and networked embedded systems.
• Experience owning or coordinating the configuration, availability, and technical readiness of Labcars, HIL benches, prototype vehicles, mule vehicles, breadboards, or similar assets.
• Familiarity with engineering release data, build pedigrees, part revision levels, supersession, applicability, and change-control processes.
• Experience with power supplies, electronic loads, DAQ systems, oscilloscopes, meters, signal conditioning, instrumentation, and safety interlocks.
• Experience using Excel, Jira, SharePoint, or comparable systems to maintain structured asset, BOM, issue, parts, or readiness data.
• Experience with Python, Power Automate, scripting, APIs, or other automation tools.
• Experience directing technicians, coordinating multi-discipline build work, leading design or readiness reviews, and communicating technical status to stakeholders.
• A systems-thinking mindset, attention to physical and documentation details, strong written and verbal communication, and the ability to operate effectively as priorities and configurations change.

Benefits

• Mentorship
• Career growth opportunities
• Comprehensive benefits

Before you apply

• All candidates selected will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.

About the company

ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering company with 3,000+ experts across North America that helps clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life. They are part of the global ALTEN Group with 57,000+ engineers in 30 countries.