Electrical Vehicle Prototype Development Engineer

The role

As a Prototype Development Engineer, you will support the development, configuration, commissioning, maintenance, and test readiness of advanced Labcars, HIL benches, and related prototype electrical test assets. You will combine hands-on hardware and software integration with disciplined configuration management, physical-to-BOM correlation, technical troubleshooting, and cross-functional build coordination to keep each asset aligned with the intended engineering configuration and ready for scheduled testing.

What you will do

Asset Bring-Up and Commissioning: Support the development, initial bring-up, commissioning, and re-commissioning of Labcars and other prototype electrical test assets following major hardware or software changes.
Technical Execution:Oversee component installation, complex wiring, harness and module replacement, instrumentation setup, module software flashing, and network debugging across CAN, CAN FD, LIN, and Automotive Ethernet.
Labcar Configuration Management: Maintain an accurate understanding of each assigned asset’s hardware architecture, electrical content, software configuration, build phase, current state, known limitations, and integration maturity.
BOM and Physical-Asset Correlation: Compare engineering BOMs, Labcar-specific BOMs, configuration records, drawings, and the hardware physically installed on each asset. Distinguish among planned, documented, and physically verified configurations.
Build-Phase Change Analysis: Identify newly introduced, revised, superseded, removed, or configuration-specific parts and requirements between engineering releases and build phases; determine the effect on assigned assets and define the required update work.
System Diagnostics and Issue Resolution: Troubleshoot and triage electrical, network, hardware, software-configuration, and integration issues. Collect diagnostic evidence, isolate affected systems, resolve technical roadblocks, and coordinate specialized engineering support when required.
Testing and Regression Validation: Develop or execute formal commissioning, smoke-test, regression, and readiness procedures with clear go/no-go criteria to confirm system stability across hardware and software iterations.
Scheduling and Test Readiness: Coordinate installation, flashing, troubleshooting, maintenance, and validation activities around shared-asset schedules. Confirm required hardware, software, prerequisite work, and known issues before releasing an asset for testing.
Documentation and Status: Maintain traceable records of installed hardware, BOM revisions, software and flash status, configuration changes, diagnostic findings, open discrepancies, completed work, validation results, and current test-readiness status.
Continuous Improvement and Automation: Improve repeatability through standardized checklists, configuration controls, data validation, scripting, and automation of reconciliation or readiness reporting where practical.

Electrical Vehicle Prototype Development Engineer

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Electrical Vehicle Prototype Development Engineer

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