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Application Engineer

Optimal Staffing
Dearborn, MI Contractor
POSTED ON 5/22/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/19/2026

Position Description:

Responsibilities

Define efficient physical and virtual SW validation methods by integrating plant models with controller software source code.

Engage cross functional team members to coordinate on-time delivery of in house and supplier software components to be compatible with the virtual test environments.

Develop virtual test environments & test cases to enable testing HW dependent test cases through simulation.

Work closely with ADAS feature and system engineers to resolve in-house software issues

Work with the Hardware in the Loop, Driver in the loop, and Vehicle in the loop Simulator teams to further reduce dependency on vehicle level testing.

Utilize and support automation for build, test, data analysis and reporting.

Skills Required:

Test Automation, Software Testing, Test Execution, Simulink Test Automation - Leveraging automated test tools (e.g. ECU-Test) to build and execute HIL testing Software Testing.

Hardware-in-Loop (HiL) testing of embedded system Software. Functional or performance based testing experience are both fine. Test Execution - HiL test execution, report generation, and test environment triage Simulink - general Simulink model generation and execution experience. HIL model creation experience preferred including integration with dSPACE tool chains (ControlDesk/ConfigDesk)

Experience Required:


BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering or related field or a combination of education and equivalent experience

2 years HIL development and execution experience.

2 years of experience with Matlab/Simulink tools

Demonstrated experience in working on HIL and DIL simulators and deploying SW on external target ECUs.

Familiarity with Embedded Tester, dSPACE, ECU-Test and Vector tools

Experience with Software Configuration Management Systems (e.g. Git)

Experience with using CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins/Github Actions

Demonstrated experience in building plant and controller models for automotive Braking, Steering and Suspension systems Demonstrated experience in Vehicle CAN Network

Demonstrated experience in system dynamics modeling using first principles and in using tools like CarSim or CarMaker

Education Required:

Bachelor's Degree

Position is fully onsite

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