SW Validation Engineer

Stellantis Financial Services; Auburn Hills (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellantis in Michigan seeks an experienced embedded software test engineer to validate ECU software in Body and Propulsion domains. You will design, implement, and execute test cases using ECU Test and Control Desk, coordinating with virtual and physical test platforms and cross-functional teams.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of automotive experience, hands-on embedded testing, and strong knowledge of CAN/CAN-FD, Ethernet, UDS/OBD, and ASPICE, with CI pipelines and defect-tracking experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, CE, EE or related field.
• 5+ years automotive experience including 3+ years embedded software testing.
• Hands-on testing of embedded software for automotive applications.
• Develop test cases, scripts, and test automation; debug with IDEs.
• Familiar with ASPICE, test reports, and reviews.
• Experience with CAN/CAN-FD, Ethernet, SOMEIP, LIN; UDS/OBD.
• Familiar with dSpace and Vector tools (CANoe, CANape).
• Defect management tools RTC, Jira; requirements tools DOORS Classic/DNG.
• Strong communication and cross-group collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and execute test cases for ECU software.
• Validate embedded software functionality in Body and Propulsion domains.
• Collaborate with test platforms, software architecture, and app developers.
• Utilize test automation tools and participate in CI pipelines.

Skills

Embedded testing

CAN/CAN-FD

Test automation

Jira RTC DOORS

DevOps pipelines

Communication skills

ASL/Software benchmarking

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE

Tools

dSpace Control Desk

CANoe

CANape

Vector Tools

DOORS Classic/DNG

Job description

Build your brand. Tell your story. Take advantage of a rare opportunity to start from the ground up and build something new and original. At Stellantis we are breaking with the past and launching a new software organization built from the ground up. The Stellantis Software Organization (SWE) was established in 2021 with an entirely new vision for the driver experience, and our mission to build the most captivating experiences in the latest frontier of Automotive Technology. We are seeking technology game changers to lead the digital transformation to this new world of automotive technology with a focus on the customer experience.

This position will function as a member of the Core application SW “SWCP” Team in the SWE organization at Stellantis. We are looking for an experienced candidate to take-up this exciting hands-on technical role. The primary duties include designing, implementing, and executing test cases to functionally validate the vehicle’s ECU software functionality in Body and Propulsion domains. The candidate will work closely with other teams that are responsible for developing the virtual and physical test platforms, software architecture group, basic software group, and application software developers.

The ideal candidate will possess hands-on experience in testing of embedded software for production automotive ECU software. The job requires in-depth knowledge of embedded software development and testing, and hands-on experience with test automation tools, preferably ECU Test and Control Desk. It also requires familiarity with DevOps (automation pipelines and GitHub repositories), and a good understanding of modern vehicle architectures.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
• Minimum of 5 years of automotive experience, including a minimum of 3 years of embedded software testing experience.
• Hands‑on Experience testing Embedded Software for automotive applications.
• Hands on experience in developing Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test automation, Testing tools and debugging the embedded software using IDEs, debuggers.
• Hands on experience with Test Methodologies, Reviews of Work products, Test Reports preparation, ASPICE familiarity.
• Experience with Automotive communication protocols (CAN, CAN‑FD, Ethernet, SOMEIP, LIN), Diagnostics Standards (UDS, OBDII), Calibration and Measurement protocols/standards (e.g. XCP, CCP, )
• Familiarity using dSpace (Control Desk, Automation Desk) and Vector Tools like CANoe, CANape, etc.
• Experience with Defect Management and Defect tracking tools like RTC, Jira etc, Requirements management tools DOORS Classic/DNG.
• Good communication skills and the ability to interface with other groups.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands on experience with Test automation tools like ECU-Test, Test Guide, etc.
• Hands on experience testing using dSpace HIL (Control desk)
• Familiarity with ASPICE and virtualization testing, HIL Testing, Debugging skills.

• Possess strong initiatives, problem solving skills, and ability to work in a diverse team environment, good at documenting the software.
• Familiarity or Having experience with AUTOSAR, and Virtual ECUs is a plus.
• Experience working within an Agile/Scrum software development process.
• Experience working with continuous integration systems and ALM tools and script automation.
• Experience with authoring ASIL compliant software code and use of functional safety code analysis tools
• Experience with power management, board diagnostics, fault management or failure modes
• Experience working on embedded target platform services like diagnostics, logging, & Tracing, client-server & other IPC mechanisms, industry benchmarks and their application to measurement and competitive analyses of performance KPI's
• Familiarity with Test automation frameworks.