Senior VECS Engineer: Off‑Road Vehicle Systems Lead

Polaris Inc; Wyoming (MN); On-site; USD 96,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will lead cross‑functional teams and translate customer needs into clear requirements and testable functionality. You will work with MATLAB/Simulink, Stateflow, CAN networks and model‑based methods, drive technical direction, create traceable requirements, and support verification, validation, and production

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.

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

Technical / Functional Expertise

Model-based engineering

MATLAB/Simulink

System engineering

Requirements management

CAN-based embedded systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Systems Engineering

Tools

Codebeamer

Jama

PTC RV&S

DOORS

Vector CANalyzer

Job description

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

You will lead cross‑functional teams and translate customer needs into clear requirements and testable functionality. You will work with MATLAB/Simulink, Stateflow, CAN networks and model‑based methods, drive technical direction, create traceable requirements, and support verification, validation, and production