Validation Engineer, Vehicle Test

Lucid is the new generation of EV. Our relentless focus on innovation, luxury, and sustainability drives us into a reality where you no longer have to choose between doing great things, doing the right thing, and doing everything with the highest regard for efficiency and design. There were luxury cars, then EVs, now there’s Lucid.  

At Lucid, we set out to introduce the most captivating, luxury electric vehicles that elevate the human experience and transcend the perceived limitations of space, performance, and intelligence. Vehicles that are intuitive, liberating, and designed for the future of mobility.

 

We plan to lead in this new era of luxury electric by returning to the fundamentals of great design – where every decision we make is in service of the individual and environment. Because when you are no longer bound by convention, you are free to define your own experience.

 

Come work alongside some of the most accomplished minds in the industry. Beyond providing competitive salaries, we’re providing a community for innovators who want to make an immediate and significant impact. If you are driven to create a better, more sustainable future, then this is the right place for you.

Responsibilities:

•Gather test requirements, create test plans, plan, coordinate resources/logistics and execute vehicle-level testing based on requests received with high efficiency. 

•Responsible for the maintenance and configuration management (HW and SW) of all assigned vehicles.

•Work with various cross-functional teams for executing test requirements and keeping all relevant stakeholders informed of progress. 

•Triage all issues, rank them with severity/priority ratings and ensure that all the relevant details, data and test logs are included in the reported issues. 

•Ability to analyze vehicle data to troubleshoot moderately complex issues, provide feedback to the relevant teams and support issue resolution efforts. 

•Analyze all test results being documented, create technical reports for the program and clearly communicate technical information to senior members in the team . 

•Mentor interns and associate engineers as required. 

•Ability to travel domestically and internationally to support testing up to 50% of the time. 

Required Experience:

•3-5 years of full-time experience in the Automotive/EV or relevant industry.

•Technical Competencies/Skills:

•Strong fundamentals in physics and engineering principles. 

•Good understanding of various vehicle attributes, features, systems and components. 

•Uses systems thinking and understands interactions between various systems.

•Detail-oriented mindset with strong organizational skills.

•Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills coupled with a strong work ethic.

•Strong problem-solving ability and familiarity with problem solving techniques like 8-D, RCA, FTA, 5 Whys etc. 

•Experience with the testing process in the automotive industry. 

•Experience with requirements, schedule/issue tracking tools like Doors, Jama, Jira and smartsheets. 

•Experience with data analysis tools such as Grafana, Dewesoft/Ipetronik is preferred. 

•Experience with CAN data and with MATLAB, Simulink, Vector and/or Peak CAN based tools. 

•Basic scripting experience in Matlab and/or Python is preferred. 

Education:

•Education: Bachelors in Automotive or Mechanical Engineering

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