Senior VECS Engineer: Off‑Road Electrical Systems Lead

Polaris Inc.; Wyoming (MN); On-site; USD 111,000 - 146,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit-sharing plan

Employee Stock Ownership Plan

401(k) matching

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off

Gym & personal training reimbursement

Volunteer time off

Job summary

Polaris Inc. is seeking a Staff Vehicle Electrical Control Systems Engineer to shape electrical features for Off‑Road Vehicles from concept to realization.

You will blend systems engineering, model‑based methods, and hands‑on vehicle work, translating customer needs into defined behavior, requirements, and validated functionality. You will collaborate with product owners, architects, validation, manufacturing, service, cybersecurity, regulatory, and program teams to ensure features perform as

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Minimum of eight years of relevant experience in systems engineering, electrical control systems, embedded systems, or a related technical field.
• 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.
• 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.
• Working knowledge of CAN‑based embedded systems and the ability to use vehicle‑network data to diagnose system behavior.
• Ability and willingness to work hands‑on with vehicles, test equipment, software tools, and incomplete early‑development systems.
• Preferred experience in powersports, automotive, commercial vehicle, off‑highway, aerospace, robotics, or another complex embedded‑system industry.
• Preferred experience with requirements‑management platforms, modeling and simulation, vehicle‑network and diagnostic tools, embedded software and controller concepts, programming or scripting, feature risk and compliance activities, and system‑level verification environments.
• This position is not eligible for sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Own assigned electrical features from concept through vehicle realization, serving as the accountable technical leader for 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 feature and function requirements that translate stakeholder goals into clear, testable, and traceable engineering expectations.
• Develop logical behavior, functional architectures, interfaces, and requirements traceability using Codebeamer or similar tools.
• Apply 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 successfully.
• Lead feature risk and compliance activities, including DFMEA 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.
• Create virtual or physical prototypes when useful to clarify concepts, accelerate decisions, and validate the user experience.
• Contribute to VECS engineering standards, guidelines, best practices, and templates that support continuous improvement.

Skills

Systems engineering

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Hands-on vehicle work

Model-based engineering

CAN-based embedded systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

Codebeamer

MATLAB/Simulink

Stateflow

SysML/UML

Vehicle-network analysis

Job description

Polaris Inc. is seeking a Staff Vehicle Electrical Control Systems Engineer to shape electrical features for Off‑Road Vehicles from concept to realization.

You will blend systems engineering, model‑based methods, and hands‑on vehicle work, translating customer needs into defined behavior, requirements, and validated functionality. You will collaborate with product owners, architects, validation, manufacturing, service, cybersecurity, regulatory, and program teams to ensure features perform as