Mid Level Validation Engineer

Segula Technologies; Auburn Hills (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Segula Technologies in Auburn Hills, MI is seeking a Validation Engineer to define, author, maintain, and govern customer-level requirements for current and future vehicle programs.

In this role, you will collaborate with Product Planning, Core Engineering, Systems Engineering, HMI, Software, Hardware, and Validation teams to translate customer and business needs into clear, testable and traceable requirements, ensuring delivery per milestones.

Qualifications

• Experience writing and managing clear, testable requirements.
• Ability to maintain bidirectional traceability across product layers.
• Familiarity with safety, cybersecurity, and regulatory considerations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creation, authoring, review, baselining, maintenance, and status tracking of requirements.
• Analyze requirements for clarity, completeness, and testability; ensure alignment with objectives.
• Define test requirements and acceptance criteria with full traceability.
• Decompose customer needs into platform-level functional and non-functional requirements.
• Tailor platform requirements for specific programs with justified deviations.
• Use benchmarking and VOC to translate needs into measurable inputs.
• Facilitate cross-functional requirement reviews and resolve gaps and interfaces.
• Maintain traceability and assess impacts of changes on schedule and cost.
• Partner with validation teams to ensure safety, cybersecurity, and standards coverage.

Skills

Requirements ownership

Traceability management

Test requirements development

Cross-functional collaboration

Change control governance

Safety & compliance awareness

Job description

Role Summary

Driven by a global product roadmap, we are seeking a Validation Engineerto define, author, maintain, and govern customer-level requirements supporting current and future vehicle programs. In this role, you will collaborate with Product Planning, Core Engineering, Systems Engineering, HMI, Software, Hardware, and Validation teams to translate customer and business needs into clear, testable, and traceable requirements, ensuring their delivery in accordance with corporate milestones.

Key Responsibilities

Requirements Authoring & Lifecycle Management

• Requirements Ownership: Lead the creation, authoring, review, approval, baselining, maintenance, and status tracking of requirements throughout the entire product lifecycle.

• Analysis & Quality: Analyze requirements to ensure they are clear, complete, consistent, feasible, unambiguous, testable, traceable, and aligned with program objectives, architectural constraints, applicable standards, and customer expectations.

• Test Requirements & Acceptance Criteria: Write test requirements in collaboration with development specialists and validation teams, defining measurable acceptance criteria and maintaining full traceability to customer and system requirements.

Feature Decomposition & Platform Tailoring

• Functional Decomposition: Lead the definition and decomposition of customer and stakeholder needs into platform-level functional and non-functional requirements for new vehicle features.

• Program-Specific Tailoring: Tailor and manage approved platform requirements for specific program applications, documenting justified deviations and maintaining alignment with global feature intent.

• Benchmarking & Customer Feedback: Use competitive benchmarking, voice-of-customer clinics, field insights, and stakeholder feedback to identify customer needs and convert them into measurable requirement inputs.

Cross-Functional Governance & Change Control

• Stakeholder Alignment: Facilitate cross-functional requirement reviews and resolve gaps, conflicts, assumptions, and interface dependencies with cross-functional stakeholders while applying consistent authoring standards.

• Traceability & Impact Analysis: Maintain bidirectional traceability from customer needs down through system, subsystem, software, hardware, and validation requirements. Assess requirement changes for technical, timing, cost, compliance, and validation impacts.

• Safety & Compliance Integration: Partner with validation teams to confirm requirement coverage, support issue resolution, and ensure applicable safety, cybersecurity, regulatory, and industry standards are incorporated and documented.