Manufacturing Diagnostics Engineer

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.

Summary

As a Manufacturing Diagnostics Engineer, you will be a part of the team that executes processes to bring up, validate, test, and troubleshoot vehicles, as well as implement diagnostic systems/infrastructure. You will develop and improve our processes for testing the electrical and firmware systems of a vehicle to perform the End-of-Line diagnostics in the manufacturing process.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the first line of defense for all electrical and functional issues on the manufacturing line, including but not limited to software/firmware, harness, networking (CAN, LIN, Automotive and Standard Ethernet, GMSL, etc.), hardware, and infrastructure issues.

• Validate vehicle behavior, triage issues, identify root causes, and lead resolutions (pertaining to software, tooling, deploy, harness, hardware, etc.) during vehicle manufacturing testing, bring-up, firmware updates, and calibration.

• Work closely with multidisciplinary engineers to collect and interpret the component and vehicle-level requirements and translate them into scalable system-level validation test scripts and test cases

• Develop the system for automatic troubleshooting and workaround guidance for operators on the Manufacturing line

• Build test plans and test coverage for vehicle production, incorporating vehicle behaviors, functionalities, and manufacturing cycle times

• Design and implement future manufacturing lines involving the next-generation diagnostic architecture to support higher volume production

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant area such as Electrical Engineering or Computer Science.

• Very strong troubleshooting and debugging skills and experience, including reading, troubleshooting, and injecting packets over various network protocols such as CAN, LIN, and Ethernet

• 2-4 years of experience with automotive controller integration testing or test script development/programming in high-level languages such as Python

• Experience with GitHub or similar tools for software management

• Strong background in Linux and shell/bash/terminal scripting

Bonus Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a relevant area such as Computer Science or Engineering

• Experience with integration and automation of manufacturing and test equipment

• Background in creating, reading, and writing to tables in SQL database

• Experience with computer network engineering, TCP / IP protocols, communication over API

Salary Range: $75,000-$90,000

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

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