Vehicle Systems R&D Engineer - CAN/ECU Prototyping

Proftech Talent; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Proftech Talent is seeking a Vehicle Systems Development Engineer to join its West Midlands R&D team. The role sits at the intersection of vehicle electronics, CAN analysis, embedded systems and product innovation.

You will own projects from initial signal investigation through to design, integration and validation of working solutions, with UK travel and occasional international opportunities.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with vehicle networks and ECU communications.
• Proven ability to translate signal discoveries into product requirements.
• Experience in hardware and embedded software integration for automotive systems.
• Willingness to travel UK and internationally as needed.

Responsibilities

• Signal Discovery & Reverse Engineering: capture and analyse CAN/CAN FD traffic.
• Decode signals, understand ECU interactions and relate to vehicle events.
• Build signal maps and develop DBC files for vehicle networks.
• Develop functional requirements from signal discoveries.
• Define system architectures and integration strategies.
• Create proofs-of-concept and prototypes for new features.
• Contribute to technical roadmaps and wider R&D activity.
• Hardware, Software Integration & Validation: configure embedded controllers.
• Design prototype hardware, harnessing and wiring solutions.
• Install and test prototype systems in development vehicles.
• Support field trials and customer projects to sign off products.
• Collaborate across engineering to ensure successful product delivery.

Skills

CAN/CAN FD

LIN

Automotive Ethernet

UDS/OBD-II

CAN traffic decoding

DBC files

ECU communications

Embedded controllers

Wiring harnesses

Oscilloscopes

Serial communications

Prototype development

Job description

Proftech Talent is seeking a Vehicle Systems Development Engineer to join its West Midlands R&D team. The role sits at the intersection of vehicle electronics, CAN analysis, embedded systems and product innovation.

You will own projects from initial signal investigation through to design, integration and validation of working solutions, with UK travel and occasional international opportunities.