Product Assurance Engineer

Job Title: Product Assurance Engineer

Job Location: Southfield, MI

What we offer:

Veoneer Safety Systems is the world leader in Automotive Electronic Safety Systems. Veoneer’s scalable, best-in-class restraint control systems are mitigating the effects of a car crash. To date, we have delivered more than 1 billion devices to car manufacturers globally.

Veoneer Safety Systems has an international and collaborative team of 2,700 employees in 11 countries. We empower our people and are dedicated to their professional development and growth.

Veoneer Safety Systems – Protect Everyone in Every Crash. 

What you'll do:

• Understand OEM specification and requirements for product validation

• Analyze product functions and develop test sequences and test limits to assure each is function is assessed during testing.

• Design and develop product validation plans (EMC, Environmental and others as required)

• Review the validation plan with internal (Product Engineering) and external customer (OEM), get approvals

• Develop requirements for test equipment, get quotes and source supplier for test equipment

• Receive test equipment, validate and perform necessary Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility (GR&R) tests to check equipment measurements before DV (Design Validation) or PV (Process Validation) testing.

• Schedule internal and external lab for planned DV/PV tests

• Learn to operate various lab equipment, including thermal chambers, and computer controlled automated testers

• Setup and perform testing using various lab equipment and thermal chambers with assistance from technicians

• Check/Verify that setup is correct based on the test plan and corresponding customer requirements prior to each test. Perform pre-test checks as needed.

• Track and report progress throughout the DV

• Analyze test data throughout testing to catch issues as soon as possible during test

• Debug, analyze and report failures that occur during the DV

• Support product engineering for any root cause analysis (8D, Fish Bone etc.)

• Archive test data, report and parts as mandated by internal and external requirements

• Release final DVP&R or PVP&R for customer approval

• Learn basic understanding of the RC&S ECU architecture, validation requirements and domain specific tools.

What you'll bring:

• Bachelor’s Degree in EE or equivalent desirable.

• 3-5 years’ work experience in Automotive electronics validation such as Hardware and system level validation.

• Strong problem solving and debugging skills with a solid understanding of core product validation principles, and analytical techniques

• Strong communication skills required, including the ability to clearly express technical concepts in verbal and written forms.

• Good team player.

• In depth understanding of validation methodology for Automotive. Application of those to develop new methods for new technology entering Automotive.

• Experience with communication protocols and tools such as CANalyzer, CANoe, and LIN

• Awareness of IPC standards and PCB manufacturing

• Awareness of ISO/IEC 17025:2005

• Awareness of IATF 16949