Project Engineer - Electrical

AISIN World Corp. of America – Product Development Center, Electronic Mobility Systems - Body ECU team in Northville.

About the role

The Project Engineer develops and executes test plans, test processes, and test schedules for AISIN Body Electronic Control Units (ECUs) on assigned projects, covering both component-level (physical, simulation, HIL) and vehicle-level evaluations. The role serves as the primary contact with customers, internal evaluation teams, and external laboratories to ensure all tests are completed and results are reported accurately.

Responsibilities

• Analyze customer and internal product requirements to develop test artifacts, ensuring all project deliverables are met on schedule and providing reports to stakeholders.
• Support the development and execution of test plans in compliance with customer, AISIN, and federal requirements and standards.
• Investigate and document test failures, providing feedback to project teams through assessment reports and recommendations.
• Review and report all testing data, ensuring traceability to test requirements.
• Support the design and development of test infrastructure hardware and software, including test fixtures, test harnesses, software user interfaces, ECU interface boards, and test setup manuals.
• Support production and engineering teams in troubleshooting issues, data collection, and data analysis, reporting findings to development teams as needed.
• Attend internal and external customer meetings and reviews as required.
• Support continuous improvement projects, validation methods, and processes.
• Perform other tasks and duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
• Experience in automotive systems testing and validation.
• Experience in HIL test development (Vector suite preferred – CANoe, Canalyzer, vTestStudio).
• Strong knowledge of automotive bus protocols (CAN-FD, CAN, LIN, SAE J2602).
• Familiarity with measurement instrumentation and data acquisition tools (Vector CANape, DMM, Oscilloscopes, NI-DAQs, etc.).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated complex technical problem-solving skills (knowledge of RedX, 5 Why, Fishbone).
• Working knowledge of ADVP&R process.
• Proficient in MS Office suite.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

Skills

• C/C++ programming experience (beneficial).
• Experience in model development using MATLAB/Simulink/Stateflow or other modeling tools (beneficial).
• Working knowledge of automotive standards (ISO/IEC, FMVSS, GMW3172, GMW3097) (beneficial).
• Basic understanding of ASPICE, CMMI, and ISO/TS 16948 processes (beneficial).
• Working knowledge of V-Process, Agile, etc. (beneficial).
• Knowledge of project management tools such as Jira and Confluence (beneficial).