V&V Engineer, Electrical

The role

You will plan and run electrical verification and validation for autonomous vehicle hardware, including EMC and stress testing. You will also manage compliance testing and certification with outside labs.

What you will do

• Derive electrical requirements from vehicle characterization and trace them to test evidence.
• Own the electrical DVP&R, including functional, performance, EMC/EMI and stress testing on prototype and production-intent hardware.
• Build and maintain custom fixtures for testing.
• Troubleshoot electrical issues and lead root cause analysis to closure.
• Work with design, systems, quality and software engineers on electrical V&V and Design for Test.
• Present test results and recommendations to design teams and program leadership.
• Manage compliance testing and certification under ISO 26262 and UL 4600.
• Coordinate with accredited external labs for pre-compliance and formal certification testing.
• Analyze test failures, run root cause analysis on non-compliance and maintain certification documentation.
• Build and improve Waabi's electrical V&V methodology, lab capability and toolchain.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in an electrical V&V role, preferably automotive or heavy vehicle.
• Bachelor's of Science in Engineering.
• Understanding of all aspects of an automotive DV/PV process.
• Deep understanding of the automotive PPAP process.
• Working knowledge of automotive APQP.
• Experience working directly with automotive OEMs and Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers.
• Working knowledge of international automotive environmental and EMC standards, including SAE J1455, ISO 11451/11452 or MIL-STD-810.
• Working knowledge of AEC standards.
• Ability to adjust the V&V process to support various OEMs.
• Direct experience characterizing vehicles to set environmental and EMC requirements for new projects or OEMs.

Nice to have

• Experience in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Technical experience developing self-driving vehicles.
• Experience with NRTL (UL) and CE certification.
• Experience with SolidWorks, ANSYS and Polarion.
• Experience designing and building HIL test benches and automating regression testing.
• Accelerated life testing, HALT/HASS, and Weibull or reliability demonstration analysis.
• Ability to perform risk analysis and prevention, FMEA, FTA and RCA.
• Experience with CANbus, Python, Shell, Unix OS and SPICE.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity awards.
• Medical, dental and vision coverage (full-time employees only).
• Unlimited vacation.
• Flexible hours and work-from-home support.
• Daily drinks, snacks and catered meals when in office.
• Regular team building activities and social events on-site, off-site and virtually.

Before you apply

• Waabi is an equal opportunity employer and makes accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities on request.

About the company

Waabi, founded by Raquel Urtasun, develops technology for commercial autonomous trucks and robotaxis. The company is backed by and partners with AI, automotive, logistics and deep tech leaders.