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Vehicle Verification and Validation Testing Lead

Stealth Startup
Palo Alto, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/16/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/11/2025

Responsibilities

  • Lead vehicle level product testing, both developmental and validation, for a new line of very lightweight electric vehicles
  • In this role you will support testing of drive units, batteries, inverters, displays, and various low voltage electronics
  • Full ownership of end-to-end product validation testing at the vehicle level
  • Setting up and executing durability and environmental testing campaigns
  • Develop and write verification and validation test methods required to guarantee products meet product requirements and provide feedback to development teams
  • Developing and maintaining status and dashboards to inform on the progress of testing efforts
  • Determine strategy for testing product requirements, including how requirements will be tested, sample size, resource and material needs
  • Setup and Supervise fleet of vehicles and their data collection and ensure their software is up to date
  • Track, investigate and escalate issues by providing clear, well-structured, high-level updates
  • Maintain traceability between requirements, test cases, and results
  • Define the Special Test Equipment (STE) functional requirements and instrumentations, data acquisitions for test and validation efforts
  • Provide directions to test engineers and technicians (at internal labs and at 3rd party test labs) setting up and executing tests
  • Create summary reports for all tests conducted and provide data analytics of the data collected during testing

Qualifications

  • B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience leading light weight mobility and / or electro-mechanical system validations
  • Experience in test planning and execution from program inception to final validation sign off
  • Understanding of industry validation standards
  • Expertise with environmental test set up and test error proofing
  • Expertise in instrumentation (thermocouples, RTDs, strain gauges, accelerometers, pressure gauges, flow meters)
  • Working knowledge of automotive communication protocols (CAN, CAN FD, SPI) and Vector tools
  • Experience with collaboration tools like JIRA, Confluence & requirements management tools like JAMA
  • High level of interpersonal and communication skills for relationships with suppliers and vendors
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced development environment
  • Help drive product refinement and quality characteristics and attributes
  • Self-motivated : Demonstrated ability to set direction and guide the team towards it
  • Hands-on approach : Proactively identifies and fills in gaps where needed
  • Ability to travel as needed
  • Experience with two wheeled vehicles such as mopeds, motorcycles, or e-bikes preferred
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