Senior Hardware Validation Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Hardware Validation Engineer

• Focus: End-to-end hardware validation, testing strategy, execution oversight, and defect triage

• Work location: Onsite weekly in Metro Detroit/Dearborn area and at testing facilities

Description

Lead end-to-end hardware validation activities across the product-development lifecycle. You will establish validation strategies, manage test plans and execution, maintain requirements traceability, and drive testing best practices and process improvements. The role combines hands-on testing and test-rig development with validation management, cross-functional coordination, and root-cause analysis for hardware defects and test failures.

Responsibilities

• Validation Management: Lead end-to-end hardware validation across all development phases, aligning plans, schedules, execution, and deliverables with product requirements and program milestones.

• Test Strategy and Planning: Develop and maintain validation plans, test procedures, test cases, and execution strategies with complete requirements coverage and traceability.

• Testing Best Practices and Process Excellence: Establish and continuously improve testing standards, tools, workflows, and validation processes.

• Test Execution and Reporting: Oversee and participate in hardware, vehicle-level, and controlled-environment testing; communicate test status, results, risks, and recommendations.

• Issue Triage and Root-Cause Analysis: Lead investigations of hardware defects/test failures; define containment actions and permanent corrective actions with engineering teams and suppliers.

• Supplier and Cross-Functional Coordination: Coordinate validation activities with suppliers and collaborate with hardware/software/systems/quality/DFMEA/PFMEA/vehicle integration teams.

• Test Infrastructure and Documentation: Support development of test rigs and environments; maintain validation documentation (SOPs, reports, lessons learned, and ICD verification).

• Technical Leadership: Mentor junior engineers and promote a disciplined, data-driven validation culture.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Health care and dependent care spending accounts

• EAP (Employee and Family Assistance Program)

• Employee discount programs

• Retirement plan with generous company match

• Generous paid time off, sick time, and holidays

• Family leave (maternity, paternity)

• Short- and long-term disability

• Life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment insurance

• Compensation: Base salary $111,775–$136,935 (varies by skills and experience)