Senior System Validation Lead — Release Readiness

applied; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Intuition, Inc. is seeking a Senior Program Validation Engineer to join its Sunnyvale team.

You will act as the technical interface between customers/TPMs and domain validation teams, defining the validation roadmap, owning release readiness, and making go/no-go decisions for releases. This role spans embedded, UX/HMI, and OTA validation, requiring strong stakeholder skills and experience across multiple engineering domains.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software or systems validation across multiple domains.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE or related field.
• Experience owning end-to-end release readiness and formal acceptance processes.
• Strong ability to translate requirements into actionable validation plans.
• Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end validation strategy aligning with customer requirements.
• Define scope, milestones, and test coverage across Embedded, UX/HMI, and OTA.
• Lead system-level CAT; plan, execute, and assess release readiness.
• Consolidate results and risks to drive final sign-off.
• Escalate blockers and communicate status to engineering leadership and customers.

Skills

Validation planning

Stakeholder management

Release readiness

Cross-domain coordination

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE

Tools

Jira

Polarion

Job description

Applied Intuition, Inc. is seeking a Senior Program Validation Engineer to join its Sunnyvale team.

You will act as the technical interface between customers/TPMs and domain validation teams, defining the validation roadmap, owning release readiness, and making go/no-go decisions for releases. This role spans embedded, UX/HMI, and OTA validation, requiring strong stakeholder skills and experience across multiple engineering domains.