Soft and Virtual ECU Engineer

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more. As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing. When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow. Job Description: Build your brand. Tell your story. Take advantage of a rare opportunity to start from the ground up and build something great. We are looking for technology game changers to lead Client into a fundamental transformation within the automotive industry. Technology is going to disrupt the automotive industry significantly in the next decade and our organization is seeking high potential candidates to transform the company with a focus on the customer experience. Client Software Organization (SWx) was established to build the most captivating experiences in the latest frontier of Automotive Technology. As part of that foundation, we are seeking passionate and conscientious Soft and Virtual ECU engineer to develop the virtual test platforms(xIL) for the next generation vehicle controller testing, which includes soft and virtual ECU’s generation (various virtual ECU levels), toolchain and methodology, integration, open loop and closed loop testing and deployment in different domains (ADAS/ AD, Energy, E-powertrain and Body, Cockpit and Connected services). Position Requirements: You will be part of a global SW driven engineering organization with a modern state of the art agile culture. If you have a proactive quality mindset and a test from day one attitude, you will be the right candidate. We are looking for highly motivated Soft and Virtual ECU engineer to work side by side with SW development and test engineers within agile teams from the early design phase until validation. This new way of testing starts at day one by not only testing implementations and requirements but challenging design and logical architecture in the earliest phase driven by a test first/test right now mentality! Beside this proactive test first/test right now, mindset we seek for good expertise on the following: MBSE MBD Virtual and Soft ECU Software verification and validation methods In addition, you have the opportunity to set new benchmarks in terms of virtualization technologies, troubleshooting/ root causing/ resolving issues, automation and methodology by advancing CI/CD mindset on all abstraction levels starting with continuous design verification down to continuous testing and deployment in highly virtualized environments. You will be part of an interdisciplinary agile team designing and applying agile methods for new and advanced features including ADAS and EV systems. Basic Qualifications: Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related Engineering degree from an accredited university 2 years of experience developing virtual test platforms (MIL, SIL, HIL) in automotive applications Experience with virtualization, cosimulation and system integration toolchain (i.e. dSPACE, ETAS, VVirtualTarget, QTronic Silver, Model.CONNECT, VDK, Siemens etc.) Knowledge of CI/CD tools and methods Experience with model-based development tools such as MATLAB/SIMULINK Thorough understanding of embedded software development (C, C++), AUTOSAR software architecture, auto code generation process and tools and experience with software such as Vis…