Senior Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation Engineer, Technical Lead

About the role

The Senior Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation Engineer, Technical Lead at Wing is a foundational role for someone who thrives on both technical execution and strategic growth. You'll be the owner of Wing’s HIL platforms driving their evolution to meet future scale.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering leadership to define the roadmap for scaled HIL testing, taking the initiative to grow a team of engineers, establishing the hiring bar, technical vision, and best practices.
• Design, develop, and maintain Wing’s HIL infrastructure for hardware and software integration and validation, with a focus on the embedded and perception systems and their integration with hardware.
• Work as the bridge between Embedded Software, Perception, Systems Engineering, and GNC teams to anticipate future vehicle features and build corresponding HIL testing capabilities.
• Design modular test fixtures with a focus on ease of replication, and swappable components enabling large-scale, highly-available, automated hardware regression pipelines.
• Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers, guiding them in embedded systems development and HIL simulation best practices, and directing lab technicians responsible for physical execution, wiring, assembly and server setup.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience working with autonomous systems; including 4+ years focused on building and scaling HIL test environments.
• Proven experience designing hardware test systems, including continuous perception testing.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects of significant scope and complexity, driving initiatives from concept to successful implementation.
• Proficient programming with C/C++ and Python
• Linux on advanced user level
• Hands-on experience with embedded operating systems and their integration within HIL setups.
• In-depth knowledge of hardware communication protocols and experience interfacing with sensors, actuators, and other hardware components.
• Familiarity in Electrical Engineering
• Experience with software quality assurance, in particular verification and validation testing.