Validation Engineer, Traceability

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.

The Component and Sub System Hardware Validation team is responsible for ensuring components and sub-systems on our vehicles to meet all functional and reliability targets needed to facilitate our autonomous mobility service. Through a methodical approach to requirements definition and validation testing we hold a high bar for component and subsystem performance. We are looking for a validation traceability specialist to help us ensure we’ve dotted our i’s and crossed our t’s. This is a role focused on traceability and clarity through the development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Review component and subsystem requirements, verification methods and design validation plans
• Identify gaps in process, missing links, or inconsistencies between requirements and test cases
• Develop and implement tools to help us create and maintain clear traceability
• Work closely with validation engineers to create action plans to bring issues identified to resolution
• Collaborate with adjacent validation workstreams and requirements management teams
• Drive traceability closure to support platform engineering sign-off

Qualifications

• BS or MS in mechanical engineering, or related relevant field
• Strong understanding of automotive hardware development lifecycles and V-model processes
• Hands-on experience with requirements management tools (Polarion or equiv.)
• Strong analytical and documentation skills, with attention to technical accuracy and compliance

Bonus Qualifications

• Exposure to DFMEA and risk-based validation approaches
• Familiarity with JQL / SQL or HTML-based reporting

Salary

• $120-130k
• The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience

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