Senior Automotive HIL Verification & Validation Engineer

TechDigital Group; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Automotive HIL Verification and Validation Engineer to join their innovative team. In this role, you will develop test procedures, execute tests, and analyze results to ensure the highest quality in automotive technologies. You will collaborate with technical specialists and contribute to agile development sprints, leveraging your expertise in automotive validation and test automation. This is a fantastic opportunity to work on cutting-edge driver assistance technologies and enhance your skills in a dynamic environment. If you are passionate about automotive engineering and eager to make a significant impact, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of automotive validation experience required.
• BS or MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering is mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Develop test procedures and perform automated/manual test execution.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for testing and development activities.

Skills

Automotive Validation

C/C++

Python

Root Cause Analysis

Agile Scrum

Test Automation

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering

MS in Electrical Engineering

BS in Computer Engineering

MS in Computer Engineering

Tools

Vector Tools

CANoe

CANalyzer

CANape

Lauterbach ICE

Wireshark

Oscilloscope

CarMaker

CarSim

MATLAB

Simulink

LabVIEW

Jenkins

GitHub

Job description

Required Skills

Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, Microservices
Deep AWS architecture and implementation expertise, including Lambda, API Gateway, S3, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, RDS/Aurora, ECS/EKS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch
Terraform and/or CloudFormation (Infrastructure as Code)
Strong database experience with Aurora, RDS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and distributed systems
Cloud-native, event-driven architecture design and implementation
Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot or Cursor AI
AWS Solutions Architect certification preferred

Responsibilities

Act as a hands-on Architect/Principal Engineer building secure, scalable, cloud-native platform services.
Lead architecture design, modernization, cloud migration, technical decisions, and performance optimization.
Drive best practices for design patterns, software engineering, database design, data modeling, query optimization, and high-availability architectures.
Mentor engineering teams and provide technical leadership.
Collaborate across teams to deliver scalable, data-intensive applications.

Ideal Candidate

Recent hands-on Java/Spring Boot development experience.
Strong AWS architecture background beyond basic service usage.
Expertise across relational and NoSQL databases.
Self-driven, ownership-oriented engineer with a principal-engineering mindset who thrives in a fast-paced environment.
Proven experience designing secure, scalable, event-driven solutions and leading technical initiatives.