Location: Glendale, WI
Duration: 6 Months
Experience: 4–6+ Years
Job Type: Contract
Job Overview
We are seeking an experienced System Validation Engineer with expertise in automotive system integration and validation, particularly in Battery Management Systems (BMS), Lithium-Ion Battery Systems, Super Capacitor Modules (SCAP), and automotive ECUs.
The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with system integration testing, HIL/SIL validation, requirement traceability, and Automotive SPICE SYS.4 compliance. This role involves validating hardware and software interfaces, investigating defects, and ensuring system-level performance, safety, and reliability.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, execute, and maintain system integration and integration testing activities for BMS, Lithium-Ion Battery Systems, and Super Capacitor Modules.
- Define integration strategies, test plans, test specifications, test cases, procedures, and test environments based on system architecture and requirements.
- Perform system integration testing across HIL, SIL, bench, and vehicle platforms.
- Validate interfaces between BMS controllers, cell monitoring units, sensors, contactors, thermal management systems, and Super Capacitor modules.
- Verify hardware, software, communication interfaces, diagnostics, safety mechanisms, and cybersecurity functions.
- Analyze test results, identify defects, perform root-cause analysis, and support issue resolution.
- Maintain bidirectional traceability between system requirements, test cases, test results, and defect reports.
- Support regression testing, change impact analysis, and release verification.
- Collaborate with software, hardware, validation, functional safety, and cybersecurity teams.
- Ensure compliance with Automotive SPICE SYS.4 work products, review processes, configuration management, and test evidence requirements.
Primary Skills
- System Integration and System Integration Testing,
- Battery Management Systems (BMS),
- Lithium-Ion Battery Systems (Li-Ion),
- Super Capacitor Modules (SCAP)
- Automotive ECU Integration Testing
- Automotive SPICE (ASPICE SYS.4)
- HIL and SIL Testing
- System Verification and Validation
- Requirement Traceability and Test Coverage Analysis
- Defect Management and Root-Cause Analysis
Secondary Skills
- CAN and CAN-FD Communication,
- CANoe and CANalyzer,
- BMS Functionality: SOC, SOH, SOP, Cell Balancing, and Contactor Control
- Thermal Management and Charging/Discharging Management
- Diagnostics and Fault Protection
- ISO 26262 Functional Safety Verification
- ISO/SAE 21434 Cybersecurity Verification
- AUTOSAR-Based Systems
- Low-Voltage and High-Voltage Battery Systems
- Vehicle-Level Testing and Environmental Testing
- Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
- Cameo
- Sodium-Ion (Na-Ion) Battery Systems
- Test Automation and Regression Testing
Required Qualifications
- 4–6+ years of relevant engineering experience, with at least 2 years in automotive system integration, BMS validation, Lithium-Ion Battery Systems, Super Capacitor Systems, or ECU integration testing.
- Strong understanding of BMS functionality, including state-of-charge (SOC), state-of-health (SOH), state-of-power (SOP), cell balancing, thermal management, diagnostics, and protection mechanisms.
- Hands-on experience developing and executing system integration test plans, test specifications, and test procedures.
- Experience with ASPICE SYS.4 verification activities and related engineering documentation.
- Strong knowledge of requirement traceability, defect lifecycle management, test coverage, and issue investigation.
- Experience working with cross-functional hardware and software integration teams.
- Familiarity with automotive communication protocols and system-level validation tools.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, as required by applicable law. Applicants who require a reasonable accommodation during the hiring process may request assistance.
Employment may be contingent upon the successful completion of job-related pre-employment screening, which may include background and reference checks and, where permitted by applicable law and applicable to the position, drug testing. All such screening will be conducted in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
