At a Glance
- Tasks: Validate and verify cutting-edge vehicle systems, ensuring top-notch performance.
- Company: Join a leading global automotive OEM with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, diverse work environment, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic team atmosphere with a commitment to diversity and inclusion.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the automotive industry while working with advanced technologies.
- Qualifications: Experience in automotive validation and strong problem-solving skills required.
The predicted salary is between 48600 - 59400 £ per year.
- A leading global automotive OEM is seeking an experienced
- Vehicle Validation Engineer to join its engineering team in
Gaydon .
This is an exciting opportunity to work on the validation and verification of cutting-edge vehicle systems, ensuring they perform flawlessly from development through to production.
You will play a key role in investigating, diagnosing, and resolving vehicle-level issues, working closely with cross-functional engineering teams to deliver robust, high-quality automotive systems.
This position is ideal for an engineer with strong systems engineering knowledge, diagnostic expertise, and hands-on experience with vehicle communication networks.
The Role
As a
Vehicle Validation Engineer , you will be responsible for validating vehicle systems and supporting issue investigation activities across multiple domains.
Acting as a key point of contact between engineering teams, you will analyse complex technical issues, identify root causes, and ensure effective handovers and resolutions.
The role requires a strong understanding of automotive communication protocols, diagnostic technologies, and structured problem-solving methodologies to support vehicle integration and validation activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform vehicle-level validation and verification activities across a range of automotive systems.
- Investigate, analyse, and diagnose complex vehicle issues identified during development and testing.
- Work closely with issue reporters, engineering teams, and domain specialists to coordinate investigations and resolutions.
- Support system integration activities and ensure successful validation against requirements.
- Analyse CAN, LIN, Ethernet, and Do IP communications to identify system behaviours and faults.
- Use logging and diagnostic tools to capture, analyse, and interpret vehicle network data.
- Support defect management, root cause analysis, and corrective action implementation.
- Produce clear technical reports and communicate findings to stakeholders.
- Facilitate effective technical handovers between teams during issue investigations.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of validation processes and methodologies.
- What You'll Bring
Essential Skills & Experience
- Experience within automotive validation, testing, systems engineering, or related vehicle development activities.
- Strong understanding of Systems Engineering principles and processes.
- Experience in System Verification & Validation (V&V) activities.
- Excellent knowledge of CAN, LIN, and Do IP (Diagnostics over IP) technologies.
- Understanding of UDS (Unified Diagnostic Services) and automotive diagnostics.
- Experience analysing communication networks including CAN, LIN, and Ethernet protocols.
- Highly developed analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Experience working within cross-functional automotive engineering teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Technical Expertise
- CAN, LIN, Ethernet Protocol Analysis
- Diagnostics over IP (Do IP)
- Unified Diagnostic Services (UDS)
- Vehicle Network Diagnostics
- System Verification & Validation
- Issue Investigation & Root Cause Analysis
- Systems Engineering Methodologies
- Tools & Methods
- Experience Using Industry-standard Diagnostic And Logging Tools Including
- Vector Tool Suite
- CANoe
- CAN/LIN/Ethernet Logging and Analysis Tools
- Network Trace Analysis
- Diagnostics and Communication Testing Tools
- Problem-Solving Skills
- You will be comfortable applying structured investigative techniques, including:
- Root Cause Analysis
- Is / Is Not Analysis
- Fishbone (Ishikawa) Diagrams
- Fault Investigation and Escalation Processes
- Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working within a vehicle integration, validation, or electrical systems environment.
- Knowledge of manufacturing, plant diagnostics, or production support activities.
- Understanding of connected vehicle architectures and modern automotive communication systems.
- Valid UK Driving Licence preferred.
SEGULA Technologies is a global engineering group, boosting the competitiveness of all major industrial sectors: automotive, aerospace, energy, rail, naval, life sciences, and telecoms.
With a presence in more than 30 countries and 140 locations worldwide, the Group prioritizes close relationships with its clients, driven by the expertise of its 15,000 employees.
As a leading engineering player putting innovation at the heart of its strategy, SEGULA Technologies manages large-scale projects, ranging from initial studies to industrialization and production.
SEGULA TECHNOLOGIES is dedicated to gender balance and diversity, recognizing and recruiting talent of all backgrounds.
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