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V&V Engineer, Electrical

Pittsburgh, USAOn-sitePosted 1 month ago

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Job type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Level
Not listed
Department
Engineering
Experience
5+ years experience
Posted
Aug 18, 2026

About the role

You Will…

V&V Execution and Quality Assurance

  • Characterize the vehicle and derive electrical requirements, decomposing them to module and component level with bidirectional traceability to test evidence.
  • Own the electrical DVP&R - plan and execute functional and performance testing, including EMC/EMI, and electrical stress and robustness testing, on prototypes and production-intent hardware. Build and maintain custom fixturing as necessary.
  • Identify and troubleshoot electrical functionality, compatibility, and performance issues; lead root cause analysis and drive corrective actions to closure.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Partner with design, systems, quality and software engineers to integrate electrical V&V and Design for Test (DfT) into the wider program.
  • Document and present test results and recommendations to design teams and program leadership to drive improvements.

Regulatory Compliance and Certification

  • Manage all aspects of Compliance Testing and Certification while adhering to ISO 26262 and UL 4600.
  • Plan and execute critical compliance tests in accordance with standards such as ISO 16750, 11451/11452, UL, CE, IEC and various OEM standards.

Certification Management

  • Coordinate with external accredited laboratories for pre-compliance and formal certification testing.
  • Oversee the analysis of test failures, perform root cause analysis on non-compliance issues, and maintain all detailed test reports, compliance logs, and documentation required for certification.

Process and Toolchain Development

  • Build and evolve Waabi's electrical V&V methodology, lab capability, and toolchain.
  • Assess a new OEM's DV/PV process quickly and advise leadership on level of effort, complexity, and cost relative to Waabi's.

Qualifications:

  • 5 + years in an Electrical V&V role, preferably automotive or heavy vehicle.
  • Minimum of a Bachelor’s of Science in Engineering.
  • Understand all aspects of an automotive DV/PV process.
  • Deep understanding of the automotive PPAP process.
  • Working knowledge with automotive APQP.
  • Experience working directly with Automotive OEMs, Tier 1 & 2 suppliers.
  • “On your feet” knowledge of International automotive environmental and EMC standards, including SAE J1455, ISO 11451 / 11452, or MIL-STD-810.
  • Working knowledge of AEC standards.
  • Ability to adjust V&V Process to support various OEMs.
  • Direct experience characterizing vehicles to set environmental and EMC requirements for new projects or OEMs.

Bonus/nice to have:

  • Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
  • Technical experience in developing self-driving vehicles.
  • Experience with the NRTL (UL) and CE certification.
  • Experience with SolidWorks, ANSYS, Polarion.
  • Experience designing and building HIL test benches and automating regression testing.
  • Accelerated life testing, HALT/HASS, and Weibull or reliability demonstration analysis.
  • Ability to perform risk analysis and prevention, FMEA, FTA, RCA.
  • Experience with CANbus, Python, Shell, Unix OS, SPICE.