Senior Safety Integration Validation Engineer Lead – SDV Architecture

Jobtailor; Missouri; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior engineer to lead validation and integration for vehicle systems, ensuring compliance and evidence management across projects. You will coordinate cross-functional teams across bench, vehicle, and virtual environments, translate requirements into test plans, and drive readiness for safety and regulatory milestones.

This role emphasizes mentoring engineers and delivering audit-ready documentation; GM Behaviors apply.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related discipline.
• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience in vehicle systems, validation, integration, or testing.
• Strong knowledge of vehicle systems, interfaces, architecture variants, and failure modes.
• Hands-on experience with system- or feature-level testing on benches, vehicles, and/or virtual environments.
• Experience owning or leading validation planning, execution, readiness, and evidence closure.
• Ability to interpret requirements and translate them into validation plans, test cases, acceptance criteria, and traceable evidence.
• Experience with issue management, root-cause analysis, and cross-functional problem solving.
• Proficiency with requirements, test management, traceability, and issue-tracking tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to present readiness, risks, and trade-offs clearly.
• Must not require GM immigration sponsorship; able to operate a motor vehicle and pass MVR.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for translating infrastructure requirements into test intent and coverage.
• Sponsor and review executable test intent aligned with architecture, safety, and customer requirements.
• Coach SIVEs and Senior SIVEs on ownership, validation objectives, and coverage.
• Define and champion traceability and evidence-management practices across tools.
• Ensure audit-ready evidence flow and documentation across HW/SW and system teams.
• Oversee integration and system validation across benches, vehicles, and virtual environments.
• Define playbooks for exploratory testing and variant evaluation.
• Resolve complex cross-system hardware and software integration issues.
• Lead readiness, compliance, and governance discussions in ADV, PAR, DVUL, Regulatory forums.
• Ensure validation and milestone status are accurate and decision-ready.
• Guide compliance dependency management with DRE and supplier inputs and export/cert docs.
• Lead cross-functional triage for high-impact integration and validation issues.
• Convert technical discussions into owners, actions, timing, escalation, and risk plans.
• Support plant, launch, and field teams by coordinating issues affecting launch readiness.
• Improve cross-functional operating model for system integration and validation.
• Foster handshakes across systems, safety, software, calibration, validation, and suppliers.
• Mentor engineers and lead by example through accountability and GM Behaviors.

Skills

Validation Planning

Test Case Development

Root-Cause Analysis

Traceability Practices

System-Level Testing

Issue Management

Acceptance Criteria Interpretation

Failure Mode Analysis

Technical Deliverables Ownership

Engineering Degree

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

DNG

ETM

Jira

Virtual Test Environments

Job description

• Provide technical leadership for translating infrastructure functional requirements into test intent and coverage across SDV Architecture
• Sponsor and review executable test intent aligned with system architecture, safety, regulatory, and customer requirements
• Coach SIVEs and Senior SIVEs on ownership, validation objectives, and coverage
• Define and champion traceability and evidence-management practices across DNG, ETM, Jira, and other tools
• Ensure audit-ready evidence flow, source-of-truth rules, and documentation expectations across HW/SW and system development teams
• Review traceability and evidence completeness and drive closure before Safety Usage Approval Milestones and Formal Reviews
• Oversee integration and system validation execution across benches, vehicles, and virtual environments for Core ECUs and Infrastructure Functions
• Define playbooks for exploratory testing, virtual-to-hardware correlation, and variant evaluation
• Support resolution of complex cross-system hardware and software integration issues
• Lead readiness, compliance, and governance discussions in ADV, PAR, DVUL, Regulatory, and related forums
• Ensure validation, readiness, evidence, and milestone status is accurate, concise, and decision-ready
• Guide compliance dependency management with DRE and supplier inputs and export/regulatory certification documentation
• Lead cross-functional triage and closure ownership for high-impact integration and validation issues
• Convert technical discussions into owners, actions, timing, escalation paths, and risk-management plans
• Support plant, launch, and field teams by coordinating issues affecting launch readiness
• Define and improve the cross-functional operating model for system integration and validation
• Foster handshakes across systems, safety, software, calibration, validation, and suppliers
• Mentor engineers and lead by example through accountability, feedback, inclusion, and GM Behaviors

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Computer, Systems, or related discipline)
• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience in vehicle systems, validation, integration, or testing with ownership of significant technical deliverables
• Strong knowledge of vehicle systems, interfaces, architecture variants, and relevant failure modes
• Hands-on experience with system- or feature-level testing on benches, vehicles, and/or virtual test environments
• Experience owning or leading validation planning, execution, readiness assessment, and evidence closure
• Ability to interpret requirements and translate them into validation plans, test cases, acceptance criteria, and traceable evidence
• Experience with issue management, root-cause analysis, and cross-functional problem solving
• Proficiency with requirements, test management, traceability, and issue-tracking tools
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presenting readiness, risks, and trade-offs clearly
• Ability to support compliance activities tied to applicable regulatory/compliance requirements
• Proven experience leading cross-functional integration and validation efforts across programs, domains, or architecture variants
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop engineers and shape validation strategy at system or domain level
• Must not require GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future
• Ability to legally operate a motor vehicle regularly and successfully complete a Motor Vehicle Report review

Demonstrates expertise in vehicle systems validation, integration, and testing, with a strong focus on compliance and regulatory requirements. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and translate complex requirements into actionable validation plans and evidence management.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Vehicle Systems Validation
• Integration and Testing
• Regulatory Compliance
• Cross-Functional Leadership
• Evidence Management

Hard Skills

• Validation Planning
• Test Case Development
• Root-Cause Analysis
• Traceability Practices
• System-Level Testing
• Issue Management
• Acceptance Criteria Interpretation
• Failure Mode Analysis
• Technical Deliverables Ownership
• Engineering Degree

Soft Skills

• Strong Communication Skills
• Mentoring and Coaching
• Problem Solving
• Accountability
• Collaboration

Industry Keywords

• Safety Usage Approval
• Compliance Activities
• Cross-Functional Integration
• Validation Strategy
• GM Behaviors

Tools & Technologies

• DNG
• ETM
• Jira
• Virtual Test Environments
• Integration Tools