Safety Test and Validation Engineer

• Plan and track safety test activities and vehicle hardware requirements • Develop detailed crash test requests, collaborating with integration teams on test and instrumentation needs • Technical interface to external facilities, including on-site support for test delivery in US and EU • Ensure component, sub-system, sled, and full-vehicle testing is executed to plan • Coordinate test vehicle preparation, teardown, and rebuild • Conduct post-test data analysis and review results with the test lab to confirm data integrity • Report test results in detail and communicate observations to engineering teams • Log and track safety performance issues in Jira

• BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering with a passion for electric, autonomous mobility • 5+ years of experience in automotive development and testing • Detailed knowledge of FMVSS, and other legal and consumer safety protocols • Hands on experience in passive safety test planning, test vehicle setup and test execution • Strong organizational and communication skills with a focus on hardware planning, timing plans and process definition • Experience with 3D design and PLM tools, CATIA 3DX or CATIA V5 preferred • CAN network experience, including data interrogation with CANALYZER • Familiarity with test sensors (accelerometers, load cells, strain gauges) and data acquisition equipment • Experience in defining and implementing operational workflows in a testing environment • Knowledge of requirements management tools (Polarion or equivalent) • Skilled in building scripts/templates for data integrity checks and results analysis (MetaPost, Hypergraph, Python, or similar) • DFMEA knowledge

In this role, you will: • Plan and track safety test activities and vehicle hardware requirements • Develop detailed crash test requests, collaborating with integration teams on test and instrumentation needs • Technical interface to external facilities, including on-site support for test delivery in US and EU • Ensure component, sub-system, sled, and full-vehicle testing is executed to plan • Coordinate test vehicle preparation, teardown, and rebuild • Conduct post-test data analysis and review results with the test lab to confirm data integrity • Report test results in detail and communicate observations to engineering teams • Log and track safety performance issues in Jira Qualifications • BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering with a passion for electric, autonomous mobility • 5+ years of experience in automotive development and testing • Detailed knowledge of FMVSS, and other legal and consumer safety protocols • Hands on experience in passive safety test planning, test vehicle setup and test execution • Strong organizational and communication skills with a focus on hardware planning, timing plans and process definition • Experience with 3D design and PLM tools, CATIA 3DX or CATIA V5 preferred Bonus Qualifications • CAN network experience, including data interrogation with CANALYZER • Familiarity with test sensors (accelerometers, load cells, strain gauges) and data acquisition equipment • Experience in defining and implementing operational workflows in a testing environment • Knowledge of requirements management tools (Polarion or equivalent) • Skilled in building scripts/templates for data integrity checks and results analysis (MetaPost, Hypergraph, Python, or similar) • DFMEA knowledge