Automotive ECU Sustaining & Test Engineer

Altentechnologyusa; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

ALTEN Technology USA is a leading engineering company delivering advanced ECUs and automotive software solutions across North America. The MCU & Manufacturing Test Engineer will sustain software for production automotive ECUs and manage component changes affecting ECU software and manufacturing tests.

You will take over existing codebases, validate changes, and document processes so workflows run independently, while supporting production at contract manufacturers and driving robust test

Qualifications

• 5+ years of automotive embedded software.
• Has supported production at a contract manufacturer: deploying test updates, debugging line failures, reading yield data.
• Can judge whether a component change needs a software change, then carry it through validation.
• Automotive change control (PPAP, DV/PV, deviations).
• Hands-on bench debugging with standard lab tools.
• Works independently and writes SOPs/runbooks as part of the job.
• Microcontroller firmware, bare-metal or RTOS.
• Flash, EEPROM and memory drivers; bootloaders; JTAG debug.
• EOL test sequences, test limits and flashing stations (NI TestStand or similar).
• Automotive diagnostics and flashing (UDS, CAN, automotive Ethernet).
• Nice to have: field-return / RMA failure analysis.

Responsibilities

• Sustain software for production automotive ECUs.
• Handle component changes (obsolete parts, memory swaps, second sources) affecting ECU software or manufacturing test.
• Support production at the contract manufacturer; deploy test updates and debug line failures.
• Take over existing codebases, make and validate changes, and document the process so it can run independently.
• Write SOPs/runbooks to standardize maintenance and testing.

Skills

Automotive embedded software

Production support at contract manuf.

Change impact assessment

Automotive change control

Bench debugging

SOPs/runbooks

MCU firmware (bare-metal/RTOS)

Flash/EERPOM drivers

JTAG debugging

TestStand/ECU testing

UDS/CAN/ automotive Ethernet

RMA analysis (nice to have)

Tools

NI TestStand

Lab tools

Job description

ALTEN Technology USA is a leading engineering company delivering advanced ECUs and automotive software solutions across North America. The MCU & Manufacturing Test Engineer will sustain software for production automotive ECUs and manage component changes affecting ECU software and manufacturing tests.

You will take over existing codebases, validate changes, and document processes so workflows run independently, while supporting production at contract manufacturers and driving robust test