Vehicle Validation Performance Engineer

Italdesign is a service company providing design, engineering and production for the transportation industry, through to final testing and type-approval and support into starting of production and the design of complete Business models. Italdesign is based in Moncalieri, Torino, Italy and today has premises of more than 50.000 squared meters, a full-scale design and engineering campus and a cutting edge development and prototyping center. It has about 1000 employees in Italy, Germany, Spain, China and since February 2024 USA. Italdesign offers its services to all interested parties worldwide. In 2017 Italdesign launched as additional business, a dedicated unit to design, develop and produce ultra-limited vehicles for all OEMs Worldwide: Italdesign Automobili Speciali. Research and innovation has enabled a continuous growth, along with the ability to choose competent and motivated people, united by a real and concrete passion for excellence. People are able to compete every day with the complexity and competitiveness of the market, able to work in integrated teams, to express their creativity in every field, to give the best of themselves in any conditions. In 2024 Italdesign obtained the Top Employers Certification for the ninth consecutive year.

Stellenbeschreibung:

Italdesign is looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Engineer/Graduate, who will be employed in the Validation of the main mechanical and traction system of the Vehicle (Chassis, System Body and Alternative Drives) including validations of ADAS, Infotainment and Connectivity systems.

S/He will be part of the Verification and Validation Department of Italdesign Deutschland, having the opportunity of business travel worldwide. S/He will be responsible to reach the targets of the assigned field of development.

Responsibilities:

• Coordination of the upcoming complaints and escalation of critical topics regarding the release.
• Responsibility of performing test drives on the road to evaluate the latest software and hardware of the complete body system.
• Tracking of mileage and statistics of functions of the test vehicles.
• Evaluation of the test results and comparison with the release requirements.
• Preparation of management documentation including time plan in case of escalation of critical topics.

Anforderungsprofil:

Responsibility for the correct management of vehicle tests in the worldwide test stations.

• Knowledge of Body System hardware and Software (hardware component and body system ECU) development (Min. 3 Years).
• Driver experience (Min. 1 Year).
• Technical Knowledge in the field of Validation.
• Experience in Vehicle Diagnostics.
• Experience in evaluating measurement data (Trace analysis).
• Ability to work to a very high level of accuracy and detail.
• Leadership and clear sense of direction.
• Negotiation skills.
• Interpersonal skills to build strong contacts with all the different project teams.
• Problem solving ability in cross-functional and multi-cultural environment; able to define problems, collect relevant data, extract meaning from data, and draw valid conclusions.
• Analytical skills and data processing.
• Ability to effectively communicate timelines and project progress with both internal and external management teams.
• Ability to adapt to a dynamic working environment and work within a diverse team.

Preferential Requirements:

• Negotiation skills for suitable compromise achievement between different needs.
• Independent, structured, and analytical way of working.
• Self-motivated.
• High reliability.
• Flexible and hardworking.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office.

Sonstige Informationen:

• Education: Master’s degree or Graduate.
• Language skills: Fluent knowledge of written and spoken English and German, Italian is appreciated.
• Workplace: Ingolstadt (DE) and availability to business trip worldwide.
• Benefits: continuous training (technical, soft and languages skills), car leasing program, smart working, flexible benefits, good work-life balance.

All genders welcome.

Just for reasons of easier readability, only the grammatical male form is used in person names. This always means people of every gender identity.

We embrace diversity, actively encourage inclusion and create an environment that fosters each employee’s individuality in the interests of the company.

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