Validation Engineer, Controller Integration

Foster City, California, United StatesPosted 3 days ago

Role Overview

Altentechnologyusa is hiring a entry-level Validation Engineer, Controller Integration. This is a contract role in Foster City, California. posted 3 days ago. Full responsibilities, required qualifications, and the apply link are listed in the description below.

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Job description

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.

We are looking for an electronic controller unit (ECU) validation engineer to assist in the testing of our delivered controllers. In this role, you will be responsible for validating component and sub-system requirements on incoming firmware and hardware ECU revisions. You will be part of a team that develops, validates, and continuously improves the robot’s features and capability to production maturity. You will engage with cross-functional teams and hold yourself, teammates, and the larger organization accountable for meeting requirements. Lastly, you will also be responsible for requirements based validation for a handful of controllers on the vehicle, enabling you to deep dive into issues and help deliver our robot.

This role is in the Vehicle Development organization leading verification and validation activities for controller hardware and firmware integration testing.

Responsibilities
• Develop and execute firmware and hardware integration test plans on new hardware components and firmware features.
• Verify bootloader, power management, network communication, and other ECU requirements.
• Troubleshooting and root causing electrical issues during component bring-up in manufacturing and fleet operation settings.
• Provide feedback to Vehicle System Engineers for design-related issues and collaborate on containments/long-term solutions.
• Examine log data and source code to identify and debug issues at the system level.
• Collaborate across mechanical, electrical, system architecture, firmware development, and firmware validation teams to understand new component level hardware/software changes being developed and identifying test plans to validate the changes.
• Conduct initial system bring-up and perform integration tests at the vehicle level to validate design assumptions.
• Develop early prototypes and test benches to de-risk new technologies.

Qualifications
• BS or higher in electrical/electronics/systems/mechanical engineering or related field.
• 3-5 years of experience in controller validation, controller integration, or related field.
• Experience debugging complex electrical, electronic, and software-controlled systems.
• Experience diagnosing CAN, CANFD, LIN or Ethernet network issues.
• Experience in MATLAB, Linux, Python, C++ or equivalent tools for modeling and analysis.
• Able to communicate complex technical issues in simple, definitive and accurate terms.

Bonus Qualifications
• Experience with Vector tools.
• Experience in failure analysis, fault trees or hazard and risk analysis.
• Experience automating controller verification steps with Cursor or other AI tools.
• Experience with end-to-end traceability tools such as Polarion or equivalent applications.
• Experience with ASPICE.

Salary Range:
• $100,000-120,000
• 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

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.

Please beware of job seeker scams and see this important notice on our careers page for more information about our recruiting process.

Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.

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This position is based in Foster City, California. Altentechnologyusa has not indicated remote or hybrid options for this role, so candidates should plan for on-site work.

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When was the Validation Engineer, Controller Integration role at Altentechnologyusa posted?

This role was posted on July 6, 2026 (3 days ago). It's still listed as actively hiring; we re-confirm openings against the source system multiple times per day and remove closed roles.

Is the Validation Engineer, Controller Integration role at Altentechnologyusa entry-level?

Yes. This is an entry-level position. Strong candidates typically have 0-2 years of relevant work experience, internships, or significant project work. Read the full description for any specific qualification requirements Altentechnologyusa has listed.