Senior VECS Engineer — Drive Off-Road Electrical Innovation

Polaris Inc; Novi (MI); On-site; USD 96,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Polaris Inc. is seeking a Senior Vehicle Electrical Control Systems Engineer to own electrical features from concept to vehicle realization for Off-Road Vehicles.

You will apply systems engineering, model-based development, and cross-functional leadership to translate customer needs into detailed requirements and testable functionality. You will collaborate with product owners, architects, validation, manufacturing, and service teams, developing ambitious, safe, and reliable VECS solutions that

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.

Responsibilities

• Own assigned electrical features from concept through vehicle realization, including feature intent, requirements, cross-functional execution, integration, and readiness.
• Define intended customer experiences and align product and engineering stakeholders on feature behavior, tradeoffs, acceptance criteria, and technical direction.
• Author and maintain clear, testable and traceable feature and function requirements that translate stakeholder goals into engineering expectations.
• Develop logical behavior, functional architectures, interfaces, and requirement traceability using Codebeamer or similar requirements‑management tools.
• Use MATLAB/Simulink, Stateflow, and other modeling or simulation methods to evaluate concepts, identify edge cases, improve requirements, and support model-based development.
• Lead cross-functional technical execution with component owners, validation, manufacturing, service, and vehicle program teams to deliver assigned features.
• Create virtual or physical prototypes when useful to make concepts tangible, accelerate decisions, and validate the user experience.
• Lead feature risk and compliance activities, including DFMEAs and engagement with functional safety, cybersecurity, regulatory, and intellectual-property teams.
• Develop system‑level test cases and integration plans, and perform vehicle testing, calibration, CAN-data analysis, issue triage, and production‑readiness assessments.
• Contribute to VECS engineering standards, guidelines, best practices, and templates that support continuous improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Requirements development

Model-based engineering

CAN-based embedded systems

MATLAB/Simulink

SysML/UML

Vehicle-network analysis

DFMEA / functional safety

C/C++/Python

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering

Tools

Codebeamer

Jama

PTC RV&S

DOORS

CANalyzer / CANoe

Job description

Polaris Inc. is seeking a Senior Vehicle Electrical Control Systems Engineer to own electrical features from concept to vehicle realization for Off-Road Vehicles.

You will apply systems engineering, model-based development, and cross-functional leadership to translate customer needs into detailed requirements and testable functionality. You will collaborate with product owners, architects, validation, manufacturing, and service teams, developing ambitious, safe, and reliable VECS solutions that