Senior VECS Engineer — Lead Off-Road Electrical Systems

Polaris Industries Inc.

Wyoming

On-site

USD 96,000 - 127,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Profit-sharing plan

401(k) matching

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off

Wellness programs

Gym & personal training reimbursement

Life insurance

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Employee stock ownership plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Volunteer time off

Job summary

Polaris Inc. seeks a Senior Vehicle Electrical Control Systems (VECS) Engineer to own electrical features from concept through vehicle realization.

You will translate customer needs into clear requirements and drive cross-functional execution with product owners, architects, validation, and manufacturing. You will use MATLAB/Simulink/Stateflow for modeling, lead DFMEA and safety activities, and contribute to engineering standards while collaborating across teams to ensure feature readiness and

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
Ability to translate ambiguous customer or business needs into clear technical behavior, decisions, and actionable requirements.
Strong communication and technical leadership skills, including the ability to facilitate alignment and move cross-functional teams toward decisions.
Experience with requirements development, systems engineering, functional decomposition, interface definition, or requirements-management tools.
Experience with model-based engineering tools or methods such as MATLAB/Simulink, Stateflow, SysML, or UML.
Working knowledge of CAN-based embedded systems, the ability to use vehicle-network data to diagnose behavior, and willingness to work hands-on with vehicles, test equipment, software tools, and incomplete early-development systems.
Experience in powersports, automotive, commercial vehicle, off-highway, aerospace, robotics, or another complex embedded-system industry is preferred.
Experience with Codebeamer, Jama, PTC RV&S, DOORS, or a comparable requirements-management platform is preferred.
Proficiency with MATLAB/Simulink and Stateflow, including controls modeling, simulation, or automated analysis, is preferred.
Experience with vehicle-network and verification tools or methods, including Vector CANalyzer or CANoe, CAPL, J1939, UDS, CAN FD, diagnostics, calibration, log-data analysis, vehicles, benches, Model-in-the-Loop, Software-in-the-Loop, or System-HIL environments, is preferred.
Experience with feature-level DFMEA, HARA, functional safety, cybersecurity, regulatory or technical design reviews; embedded controller concepts; or programming in MATLAB, Python, C, C++, or a similar language is preferred.
This position is not eligible for sponsorship.

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.