ADAS Validation and Verification Engineer

• Department: Vehicle Manufacturing
• Location: Crewe, fulltime based on onsite
• Contract type: 2 Year Fixed Term Contract
• We do not offer Sponsorships

Formel D is the global service provider for the industry. We develop market-leading concepts, as well as individual and scalable solutions throughout the entire value chain of the production process, from the design phase, industrialization, production and after-sales. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Cologne (Germany).

We currently have a team of several thousand people located in 45 nations, and more than 80 locations in 19 countries, working daily at the core of the industry. Our drive is passion, team spirit and professionalism in everything we do, and our success is based on the satisfaction of our customers, which makes us stand out as a premium supplier within the sector.

We are looking for an experienced ADAS Validation and Verification Engineer to work on an innovative automotive project located in our client's site based in Crewe. You will be responsible for the whole vehicle; focus will be primarily on ADAS content.

The purpose of the role is to support the testing activities of reliability programs by providing a specialist product focused capability. The main deliverable is expert customer focused evaluation of the pre-series reliability vehicles together with the analysis and reporting of functional defects identified during the reliability testing process. The scope of the role also includes defining the technical requirements in terms of vehicles, test profiles and test methodology appropriate to identifying functional product defects in pre-series vehicles.

Function:

• Respond to issues raised by reliability testing stations via the Quality Whole Vehicle system ALPOS
• Understand and compile a problem statement, to determine probable point of cause
• Assess the issue for escalation / allocation to an appropriate problem owner via KPM or DISS system
• Interpret, analyse and summarise logged traces of complex vehicle bus data to enable robust functional problem statements prior to allocating to problem owner via KPM or DISS.
• Proactively monitor the status of reliability issues reported in KPM’s and ensure solutions are adequately verified to enable closure.
• Escalate / prioritise issues with potential high customer / warranty impact within functions and forums to Board level.
• By utilising your expert knowledge of customer usage profiles according to the OEMs makes/models together with relevant Engineering functional standards, specify appropriate reliability testing criteria and vehicle usage profiles to identify potential functional defects in pre-series cars which have high impact implications for warranty and customer dissatisfaction.
• Ensure the standard reliability profiles adopted by the reliability testing stations cover the different operating scenarios.
• Specify required special testing procedures focused to verify specific functional performance of features to Bentley customer expectations (SoPro’s).
• Release events (B-MAF / KAF)
• Perform expert static and dynamic assessment of drive event vehicles.
• Critically assess all issues raised during the event preparation drive and propose a list of critical issues to be reported to the board in the event documentation (Schwerpunktliste).
• Prepare documentation for drive event.

Requirements

• Degree in Engineering or equivalent
• Previous proven experience in a similar position
• Advanced knowledge of vehicle development and industrialisation within area of specialism
• Able to apply knowledge of customer behaviour and expectations to develop vehicle test requirements
• Advanced knowledge and experience of ADAS
• Able to gather and interrogate vehicle electrical network data to identify problem root cause
• Proficient understanding of Product Emergence Process
• Advanced knowledge of problem-solving tools
• Data analysis skills - ODIS, VAS, MDF viewer (data logger analysis tools) & MDA
• Strong whole vehicle assessment skills
• Strong technical and analytical problem-solving skills
• Effective presentation and communication of technical problems to all levels up to board members
• Excellent team working and influencing skills using data.
• Willingness to be flexible to meet frequently changing priorities
• Positive and self-motivated
• Ability to lead complex problem-solving teams
• Ability to influence problem owners and suppliers within the Group within area of technical responsibility
• Strong PC skills – Excel / PowerPoint / Outlook
• UK Citizen (or equivalent without any sponsorship requirements)
• UK Driving Licence and own vehicle