Systems Test Engineer

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company that provides solutions for engineering, technology, and product development projects. For decades, we’ve been helping our clients develop products that are changing the world, whether that’s by shaping the future of space exploration, saving lives with medical devices that set a new standard of care, or creating the fully autonomous electric taxi of tomorrow. Our team of more than 600 people works across industries including aerospace, medical devices and life sciences, unmanned systems and robotics, automotive OEM and tier 1 suppliers, commercial vehicle, electric vehicles, rail, and more. Our offices across the US have different industry focuses and engage with our clients in different ways, ranging from working on-site at client facilities to performing product development at our delivery centers.


ALTEN Group, our parent company, has been a leader in engineering and information technology for more than 30 years. ALTEN Group operates in 30 countries across Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East and employs more than 36,000 people, 88% of whom are engineers. The company covers the whole development cycle and offers a choice of service levels, from technology consulting to complete project outsourcing.


When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you join a group of people passionate about collaborating to solve some of the world’s most technical engineering challenges. Our success is tied to taking care of our employees by building relationships and providing opportunities for mentorship and career growth. We offer comprehensive benefits for all full-time employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) plan with employer matching; paid time off (PTO); paid parental leave; and mentorship to help you take your career to the next level. You don’t have to take our word for it that we are a great place to work—we were named on the 2023 Top Workplaces list thanks to feedback from our proud employees.

Responsibility:

• Support wireless connectivity feature testing and validation field trips for urban, dense and congested environment testing in Michigan.


• Engineer, develop, execute, validate serial communication in passenger vehicle (passenger car, truck and sport utility vehicle) network Controller Area Network (CAN) bus database for full ICE (Internal combustion engine) vehicles.


• Capture CAN bus traffic from vehicle/Bench using CAN case hardware and perform analysis using CANoe.


• Analyze captured CAN communication logs of vehicle subsystem ECU, system debug logs and identify the root cause of issues found from system tests.


• Perform Over the Air (OTA) software loading, and Over the Air (OTA) service activation, deactivation, and re-activations.


• Validate Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Over the Air (OTA), Global Positioning System (GPS) and Human Machine Interface (HMI) features.


• Suggest solutions and lead enhancement to software validation procedures, processes, and practices.


• Analyze system requirements using IBM Rational DOORS (requirement storage tool) and modify and create new test cases.


• Configure and activate services in Unified Diagnostic Services (UDS) diagnostic communication protocol in Controller Area Network (CAN) communication protocol.


• Execute static and dynamic vehicle tests for all telematics features including Remote door lock/Unlock, Remote Engine Star, Stolen Vehicle Tracking, Stolen Vehicle block.


• Perform Over the Air (OTA) software loading, and Over the Air (OTA) service activation, deactivation, and re-activations.


• Validate different Software variants for U.S., Mexico, Canada. Analyze vehicle interface subsystem Audio during emergency call and perform audio tunning changes to maintain audio quality.


• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) to the OEM for all Telematic service, Wi-Fi, and related protocols.


• Support vehicle launches by root causing of defects and resolution of open issues.


• Analyze passenger vehicle feature, system and subsystem requirements using IBM Rational Dynamic Object-Oriented Requirement System (DOORS) and evaluate functional partitioning and allocation scenarios to establish primary design direction for Telematic Control Unit, robustness.


• Use fault injection test methods to execute functional safety validation by inserting serial data communication faults such as Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) error, Burst ID errors, Invalid Data and Time Synchronization errors to validate that the vehicle transitions into a fail-safe state.

Requirements:

Master’s Degree in Engineering Management, Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering with six (6) months experience. 40 hr/wk, $85,134 /yr.

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