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Sr. Software Engineer, Charging Payments

Fremont, CA · On-site

$134K - $177K/yr

... Senior Software Engineer for their Charging Payments team. The role involves designing and ... app performance, usability, and customer delight • Work on other areas of Tesla ownership ...

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Site Reliability Engineer, Diagnostics

Palo Alto, CA · On-site

$67 - $89.25/hr

Job Summary : Tesla is a leading company in the automotive industry, known for its innovative ... performance and reliability bottlenecks • Productionalize new services and features, as well as ...

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ADAS Performance Specialist

Auburn Hills, MI

ALTEN Technology USA
Engineering Professional Services • 10K+ employees
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Full-time

Posted 14 days ago

Job description

Job Description

  • Client is seeking a qualified Performance Specialist who will be responsible to guarantee ADAS systems performance and set core performance targets within their competence area.
  • They will be responsible for competitive benchmarking, vehicle assessments, and technical requirement management for ADAS features on production and future vehicle applications.

Job Duties

  • Set core objective performance targets for all ADAS features based benchmarks of competitive set, translated voice-of-customer, and industry knowledge
  • Work with ADAS Functional Science simulation team to increase requirement simulation capability and apply to programs
  • Create and support core validation plan for test engineering team
  • Provide impact assessment for product/feature changes
  • Review/prepare materials and vehicles for leadership ride and drive events
  • Identify and resolve cross-functional issues affecting ADAS system performance
  • Identify and fill gaps in new, rapidly growing organization
  • To support Performance Specialists in target setting and waterfall processes starting from the Customer Car Profile (Target Vehicle)
  • To develop and Validate ADAS systems performances on vehicles
  • To support Performance Engineer in virtual and experimental performance development plan definition managed through the Integrated Test Plan (PSI)
  • To ensure the ADAS systems calibration in collaboration with other department and system suppliers
  • To collect objective data to quantify the subjective feeling, or to clarify the gap between the status and the goal/target when necessary
  • To create knowhow of ADAS features and to support road map development
  • To create benchmark on main ADAS systems and features of competitors

Position Requirements - Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent (Materials/Chemical/Civil/ Aerospace/Computer) from an ABET accredited or equivalent university
  • 5 years of related engineering experience
  • 3 years of experience within the area of ADAS product development
  • Proficient in Google Docs, Sheets, and Pages
  • Excellent problem solving skills
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to adapt to major strategy shifts whilst ensuring work continuity and motivation
  • Willingness to support 1-2 week development trips domestic and international
  • Market knowledge of competitive automotive ADAS system, market trends and safety protocols (e.g. NCAP, IIHS, NHTSA )
  • Clean driving record and ability to drive test vehicles on public roadways

Preferred Qualifications

  • 7 years of related engineering experience
  • Familiarity with Tesla FSD or Chinese market ADAS
  • Related work experience of at least 2 years in companies with a premium / luxury brand positioning
  • Understanding of Client vehicle and electrical engineering development milestones
  • Understanding of the V-model development process and requirements traceability
  • Knowledge of automotive dynamics and vehicle engineering variables affecting performance
  • Master Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or Equivalent

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