Prototype Development Engineer

Insight Global; California; On-site; USD 69,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Prototype Development Engineer in California to support development, configuration, commissioning, maintenance, and test readiness of advanced Labcars, HIL benches, and related prototype electrical assets. You will blend hands-on hardware with software integration and maintain rigorous configuration management across builds.

Responsibilities include asset bring-up, commissioning, wiring and module replacements, BOM correlation, diagnostics, and test readiness

Qualifications

• Experience with prototype electrical test assets such as Labcars and HIL benches.
• Hands-on hardware–software integration with configuration management.
• Familiarity with BOM reconciliation and hardware diagnostics.

Responsibilities

• Asset bring-up and commissioning of Labcars and prototype test assets after hardware or software changes.
• Oversee wiring, harness and module replacement, instrumentation setup, and network debugging (CAN, CAN FD, LIN, Automotive Ethernet).
• Maintain asset hardware, software, and configuration records; track BOM revisions and test readiness.
• Correlate engineering BOMs with physical hardware and ensure alignment with configurations.
• Identify changes between engineering releases and build phases; assess impact on assets and required updates.
• Troubleshoot electrical, network, hardware, and software-configuration issues; collect diagnostics and coordinate support.
• Develop or execute commissioning, smoke-test, regression, and readiness procedures with go/no-go criteria.
• Coordinate installation, flashing, troubleshooting, maintenance, and validation around shared asset schedules.
• Document installed hardware, BOM revisions, software/flash status, and test-readiness status.
• Improve repeatability via checklists, configuration controls, data validation, and automation where practical.

Job description

As a Prototype Development Engineer, you will support the development, configuration, commissioning, maintenance, and test readiness of advanced Labcars, HIL benches, and related prototype electrical test assets. You will combine hands‑on hardware and software integration with disciplined configuration management, physical‑to‑BOM correlation, technical troubleshooting, and cross‑functional build coordination to keep each asset aligned with the intended engineering configuration and ready for scheduled testing

What You’ll Do

• Asset Bring-Up and Commissioning: Support the development, initial bring‑up, commissioning, and re‑commissioning of Labcars and other prototype electrical test assets following major hardware or software changes.
• Technical Execution:Oversee component installation, complex wiring, harness and module replacement, instrumentation setup, module software flashing, and network debugging across CAN, CAN FD, LIN, and Automotive Ethernet.
• Labcar Configuration Management: Maintain an accurate understanding of each assigned asset’s hardware architecture, electrical content, software configuration, build phase, current state, known limitations, and integration maturity.
• BOM and Physical‑Asset Correlation: Compare engineering BOMs, Labcar‑specific BOMs, configuration records, drawings, and the hardware physically installed on each asset. Distinguish among planned, documented, and physically verified configurations.
• Build‑Phase Change Analysis: Identify newly introduced, revised, superseded, removed, or configuration‑specific parts and requirements between engineering releases and build phases; determine the effect on assigned assets and define the required update work.
• System Diagnostics and Issue Resolution: Troubleshoot and triage electrical, network, hardware, software‑configuration, and integration issues. Collect diagnostic evidence, isolate affected systems, resolve technical roadblocks, and coordinate specialized engineering support when required.
• Testing and Regression Validation: Develop or execute formal commissioning, smoke‑test, regression, and readiness procedures with clear go/no‑go criteria to confirm system stability across hardware and software iterations.
• Scheduling and Test Readiness: Coordinate installation, flashing, troubleshooting, maintenance, and validation activities around shared‑asset schedules. Confirm required hardware, software, prerequisite work, and known issues before releasing an asset for testing.
• Documentation and Status: Maintain traceable records of installed hardware, BOM revisions, software and flash status, configuration changes, diagnostic findings, open discrepancies, completed work, validation results, and current test‑readiness status.
• Continuous Improvement and Automation: Improve repeatability through standardized checklists, configuration controls, data validation, scripting, and automation of reconciliation or readiness reporting where practical.

12-month contract with extensions or FTE conversion, paying $50–80/hr.