Job Opportunities - Internal

Department Overview: 

The Electrical R&D department is responsible for all future electrical systems research, and the development, delivery and validation of electrical components for all Aston Martin and Lagonda core vehicles

Job Purpose: 

To own and be responsible for system validation for all infotainment components in all key markets.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Support system test team for infotainment and automation for multiple programs/projects.
• Collaborate with other test team, feature owners, component owners and cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize test planning, execution for various internal and external milestones.
• Collaborate and develop a team of high-performance automation engineers utilizing best practices and tools.
• Perform all necessary vehicle testing (hardware and functional) to guarantee product acceptance for mass production
• Support and plan test strategy, test drives across key/critical markets (inc. preparing vehicles to enable vehicle testing)
• Coordinate & raise travel requests on time to enable global validations campaigns.
• Write all necessary reports, presentations, or technical documents to explain and/or make a record of the development activities
• Research and improve test capability and methods of the infotainment team overtime.
• Teach and mentor other validation members to further enable global testing.

Experience and Qualifications

•  CAN tools – CANoE
• Understanding of LIN/CAN/Automotive Ethernet
• Understanding of electronics/software and hardware design & EDS
• Automation toolsets, framework and programming  – Eg: NI Teststand, Python etc.
• Data analysis & report writing
• Experience in delivering Infotainment modules.
• Experience of vehicle level system integration in terms of hardware and Software). Experience of software development processes and managing software delivery.
• Experience of validating infotainment systems, Navigation, Bluetooth and Media devices, Tuner and Infotainment HMI. Delivery experience on Infotainment OS system (windows, Linux, QNX, etc.).
• Extensive knowledge of automotive development systems and test framework.
• Supplier management experience desirable
• Complete knowledge of Product Development cycle from concept to launch completion
• Knowledge of automotive quality tools and processes.
• Electrical engineering, Mechatronics, or equivalent degree

Skills and Behaviours: 

• Collaboration – builds & maintains effective relationships within own function as well as across departments.  Collaborates within teams to achieve goals.  Team player with ‘can-do’ attitude.
• Customer focus – always focuses on high attention to detail & demonstrates accuracy in their work.
• Communication – ensures communication has a clear purpose, is factual, accurate & provided at the right time.  Proactively shares information with colleagues & stakeholders.  Excellent written communication skills for report writing & concerns raising.  Able to verbally communicate at all levels.  Able to clearly and concisely explain status to upper management
• Commitment – takes ownership of objectives, work activities & behaviour, & makes informed decisions backed by data.  Commits to deadlines & achieving milestones.   Strong time management, ability to balance and prioritise multiple tasks to meet customer needs.
• Continuously challenge & improve – takes initiative & uses data to challenge traditional ways of thinking & improve processes & working practices.  Challenges design engineering to improve system performance.
• Competent in infotainment Validation & Automation
• Competent in Confluence and JIRA toolset
• Competent in Microsoft Office toolset.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills at all levels
• Confident presenter
• Microsoft project experience is desirable
• Strategic thinking
• Must be able to project manage and work collaboratively with a cross-functional team.
• Knowledge of Can and CAN based tools

GRADE: 9

Belong at Aston Martin

We understand that the incredible beauty, craft, and art that defines an Aston Martin comes from the inclusion of our amazing people.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.  We celebrate diversity and are seeking applicants who can bring something different. 

Please speak to us if there is anything you need to support making an application with us.

The post holder will be required to comply with all policies and procedures issued by and on behalf of Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd