Senior Automotive System Architect: ECU & Production

Sentinel; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Sentinel in London is seeking a Senior Automotive System Architect to own ECU/HIL/production architecture on a long-term contract. The role demands deep expertise in system architecture, validation, and production readiness.

You will take ownership of the System Under Test (SUT) architecture, collaborate across hardware, software, validation and manufacturing to ensure fully integrated, testable and production-ready systems.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of automotive engineering experience.
• Strong Systems Engineering/System Architecture background.
• Production ECU/system architectures experience.
• Experience across integration and validation.
• Strong understanding of SIL, HIL and EOL testing.
• Experience with ECU flashing, diagnostics and provisioning.
• Knowledge of CAN/CAN FD and Automotive Ethernet.
• Experience taking systems through development into production/SOP.
• Ability to act as a senior technical authority across multiple disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the SUT architecture across hardware, software and test environments.
• Translate product requirements into complete, consistent and testable system requirements.
• Define ECU architectures supporting integration, validation and production.
• Ensure systems provide observability, controllability, diagnosability and scalability.
• Work with validation teams across SIL, HIL and EOL environments.
• Define architecture and requirements for ECU flashing, provisioning, diagnostics and fault detection.
• Define interfaces between ECUs, vehicle networks, test systems and manufacturing systems.
• Support production readiness and ramp-up.
• Provide technical leadership across systems engineering, software, validation and industrialisation teams.

Skills

Automotive Systems Engineering

System Architecture

Production ECU Architectures

Integration & Validation

SIL/HIL/EOL testing

ECU flashing & provisioning

CAN / CAN FD / Automotive Ethernet

Leadership / technical authority

Tools

DOORS

Polarion

Job description

Sentinel in London is seeking a Senior Automotive System Architect to own ECU/HIL/production architecture on a long-term contract. The role demands deep expertise in system architecture, validation, and production readiness.

You will take ownership of the System Under Test (SUT) architecture, collaborate across hardware, software, validation and manufacturing to ensure fully integrated, testable and production-ready systems.