Senior ADAS Performance Engineer - Vehicle Development

About the Company

ALTEN Technology USA is 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.

About the Role

Client is seeking a qualified Performance Engineer who will be responsible for target setting, validation planning, and status reporting for ADAS features on production vehicle applications. The performance engineer will create ADAS performance based on the assigned vehicle's competitive set and deliver features adhering to these targets within program timing milestones.

Responsibilities

• Establish budget & timing plans for approval and planning for assigned vehicle(s)
• Set vehicle-specific objective performance targets for all ADAS features based on benchmarks of competitive set, translated voice-of-customer, and industry knowledge
• Work with ADAS Functional Science simulation team to increase requirement simulation capability and apply to programs
• Create and support validation plan for test engineering team
• Track and report development and validation status via scorecard and supporting materials to leadership
• Provide impact assessment for product/feature changes
• Review/prepare materials and vehicles for leadership ride and drive events
• Identify and resolve cross-functional issues affecting ADAS system performance
• Escalate roadblocks to development and validation
• Develop risk mitigation plan for timing slips and issue resolution
• Identify and fill gaps in new, rapidly growing organization

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent (Materials/Chemical/Civil/Aerospace/Computer) from an ABET accredited or equivalent university
• 3 years of related engineering experience
• Proficient in Google Docs, Sheets, and Pages
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to adapt to major strategy shifts while ensuring work continuity and motivation
• Willingness to support 1–2 week development trips, domestic and international
• Clean driving record and ability to drive test vehicles on public roads

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of the V-model development process and requirements traceability
• 2 years of experience within the area of ADAS product development
• 5 years of related engineering experience
• Understanding of Client vehicle and electrical engineering development milestones

All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.