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We are seeking an experienced Vehicle System Integration Engineer with a focus on Software Cybersecurity Testing to contribute to system integration, verification, and validation activities for next-generation vehicle controllers and software platforms.
The next-generation vehicle architecture integrates advanced software capabilities across High-Performance Computers (HPCs) and Zonal ECUs, enabling highly automated driving, advanced connectivity, and centralized vehicle computing. The individual will be responsible for validating the implementation and functionality of automotive cybersecurity features across multiple ECU domains, ensuring robust protection of vehicle software, communication interfaces, and critical vehicle functions.
The primary focus of this role is to integrate and validate cybersecurity software features across multidomain HPC and Zonal ECU platforms using hardware-based system benches and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) environments. This includes flashing and configuring ECU software, executing cybersecurity test scenarios, validating ECU interactions, and identifying potential security weaknesses through requirements-based testing and system-level analysis.
The engineer will work on validating embedded software cybersecurity mechanisms such as secure boot, secure software updates, ECU identity and authentication, key management and negotiation, Hardware Security Module (HSM) functionality, diagnostic security events, software cybersecurity lifecycle mechanisms, inventory management, and protection of critical vehicle data.
The role requires strong hands-on experience with automotive debugging and test automation tools, including Lauterbach Debugger, Vector CANoe/CAPL, Vector VT System, and dSPACE HIL platforms. The engineer will develop and execute test cases to verify cybersecurity functionality, assess system behavior under normal and abnormal operating conditions, analyze test results, debug failures, and collaborate with software development teams to resolve identified issues.
The job also entails reviewing cybersecurity and system requirements, developing test strategies and detailed test cases, creating automation scripts using CAPL, Python, and other scripting languages, and supporting continuous integration and automated test execution wherever applicable.
The individual will work closely with software architecture, embedded software development, system integration, functional domain, and cybersecurity teams to ensure cybersecurity requirements are correctly implemented and validated across the vehicle platform.
We are looking for a highly motivated engineer with a strong background in automotive embedded software, system integration, and cybersecurity verification. The candidate should be comfortable working from early software development stages through system validation, challenging software implementations, identifying integration gaps, and ensuring end-to-end cybersecurity functionality across interconnected vehicle controllers.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Perform system integration and cybersecurity verification of multidomain HPC and Zonal ECU platforms.
- Integrate ECU software, perform flashing and configuration, and execute cybersecurity test scenarios on physical system benches and HIL environments.
- Develop and execute requirements-based test cases for automotive software cybersecurity features, including secure boot, secure update, ECU authentication, key management, HSM, diagnostic security, and data protection mechanisms.
- Validate cybersecurity functionality across ECU boundaries, including interactions between HPC, Zonal controllers, and other vehicle domains.
- Use Lauterbach Debugger, Vector CANoe/CAPL, Vector VT System, and dSPACE HIL systems for test execution, debugging, and system-level analysis.
- Develop CAPL and Python scripts to automate cybersecurity test scenarios and improve test coverage and execution efficiency.
- Validate communication and diagnostic interfaces over Automotive Ethernet, CAN, and LIN networks.
- Analyze software behavior, debug integration issues, investigate test failures, and collaborate with development teams to drive issue resolution.
- Review system and cybersecurity requirements, identify coverage gaps, and ensure traceability between requirements, test cases, and test results.
- Support automated test execution and integration into CI pipelines.
- Participate in design and architecture reviews to provide feedback on cybersecurity feature implementation, testability, and system-level integration.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity, embedded software, system architecture, and domain teams throughout the software development and validation lifecycle.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, or a related field.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in automotive embedded software, system integration, ECU testing, or vehicle network development. Including a minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in automotive cybersecurity feature verification, requirements-based testing, or embedded software security testing.
- Strong understanding of automotive E/E architecture, distributed ECU systems, and embedded software integration.
- Experience testing automotive cybersecurity mechanisms such as secure boot, secure flashing/software updates, ECU authentication, key management, HSM, and diagnostic security.
- Hands-on experience with automotive debugging and test tools such as Lauterbach Debugger, Vector CANoe/CAPL, Vector VT System, and dSPACE HIL systems.
- Strong programming and scripting skills in CAPL and Python; knowledge of C/C++ is an advantage.
- Solid understanding of automotive communication protocols, including CAN (ISO 11898-1), LIN (ISO 17987-1), and Automotive Ethernet.
- Basic understanding of SOME/IP and automotive diagnostic protocols (UDS).
- Experience with requirements-driven testing, test case development, execution, defect reporting, and test result analysis.
- Familiarity with test management and requirements management tools such as DOORS Next Generation, IBM RTC, and Jira.
- Understanding of software development, system integration, and validation processes in the automotive industry.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience with cybersecurity testing of Qualcomm-based or other automotive HPC platforms.
- Experience with zonal architecture and integration of centralized vehicle computing platforms.
- Understanding of automotive cybersecurity standards such as ISO/SAE 21434 and UNECE R155.
- Experience with HSM-based security architectures and hardware-backed cryptographic mechanisms.
- Knowledge of secure diagnostic services, certificate management, key provisioning, and vehicle cybersecurity lifecycle management.
- Experience with test automation frameworks and CI/CD integration.
- ISTQB certification or equivalent knowledge of structured software testing methodologies.
OUR BENEFITS - DESIGNED WITH YOU IN MIND
Comprehensive Health & Well-being Coverage
From your very first day, you'll have access to medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage - ensuring you and your family stay healthy and protected.
Generous Paid Time Off
We believe in work-life balance. That's why we offer: 17+ paid holidays, including shut-down from December 24th through New Years Day every year. Vacation, float & wellbeing days, sick time and fully paid parental leave when your family needs you most.
Competitive Retirement Savings Plans
We help you plan for the future with:
- An employer match on contributions to your 401k, Roth, and Catch-Up plans
- An employer contribution, even if you don't contribute
Income Protection & Insurance Options
Benefit from included and optional disability, life, and other insurance programs - because your peace of mind matters.
Company Vehicle Lease Program
Eligible employees and their immediate families can enjoy company vehicle lease options with included insurance, maintenance, and unlimited mileage. Plus, take advantage of exclusive discounts on Stellantis products.
Family Building Benefit
We proudly support all paths to parenthood - including fertility and infertility treatments, adoption services, and gestational surrogacy.
Support for Your Growth and Giving Back
We believe in investing in your future and your passions:
- Tuition reimbursement
- Student loan refinancing programs
- 18 paid volunteer hours each year to make a difference in your community
And so much more!
When you join us, you're not just building a career - you're joining a company that supports you, inside and outside of work.
INTRODUCTION
We are seeking an experienced Vehicle System Integration Engineer with a focus on Software Cybersecurity Testing to contribute to system integration, verification, and validation activities for next-generation vehicle controllers and software platforms.
The next-generation vehicle architecture integrates advanced software capabilities across High-Performance Computers (HPCs) and Zonal ECUs, enabling highly automated driving, advanced connectivity, and centralized vehicle computing. The individual will be responsible for validating the implementation and functionality of automotive cybersecurity features across multiple ECU domains, ensuring robust protection of vehicle software, communication interfaces, and critical vehicle functions.
The primary focus of this role is to integrate and validate cybersecurity software features across multidomain HPC and Zonal ECU platforms using hardware-based system benches and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) environments. This includes flashing and configuring ECU software, executing cybersecurity test scenarios, validating ECU interactions, and identifying potential security weaknesses through requirements-based testing and system-level analysis.
The engineer will work on validating embedded software cybersecurity mechanisms such as secure boot, secure software updates, ECU identity and authentication, key management and negotiation, Hardware Security Module (HSM) functionality, diagnostic security events, software cybersecurity lifecycle mechanisms, inventory management, and protection of critical vehicle data.
The role requires strong hands-on experience with automotive debugging and test automation tools, including Lauterbach Debugger, Vector CANoe/CAPL, Vector VT System, and dSPACE HIL platforms. The engineer will develop and execute test cases to verify cybersecurity functionality, assess system behavior under normal and abnormal operating conditions, analyze test results, debug failures, and collaborate with software development teams to resolve identified issues.
The job also entails reviewing cybersecurity and system requirements, developing test strategies and detailed test cases, creating automation scripts using CAPL, Python, and other scripting languages, and supporting continuous integration and automated test execution wherever applicable.
The individual will work closely with software architecture, embedded software development, system integration, functional domain, and cybersecurity teams to ensure cybersecurity requirements are correctly implemented and validated across the vehicle platform.
We are looking for a highly motivated engineer with a strong background in automotive embedded software, system integration, and cybersecurity verification. The candidate should be comfortable working from early software development stages through system validation, challenging software implementations, identifying integration gaps, and ensuring end-to-end cybersecurity functionality across interconnected vehicle controllers.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Perform system integration and cybersecurity verification of multidomain HPC and Zonal ECU platforms.
- Integrate ECU software, perform flashing and configuration, and execute cybersecurity test scenarios on physical system benches and HIL environments.
- Develop and execute requirements-based test cases for automotive software cybersecurity features, including secure boot, secure update, ECU authentication, key management, HSM, diagnostic security, and data protection mechanisms.
- Validate cybersecurity functionality across ECU boundaries, including interactions between HPC, Zonal controllers, and other vehicle domains.
- Use Lauterbach Debugger, Vector CANoe/CAPL, Vector VT System, and dSPACE HIL systems for test execution, debugging, and system-level analysis.
- Develop CAPL and Python scripts to automate cybersecurity test scenarios and improve test coverage and execution efficiency.
- Validate communication and diagnostic interfaces over Automotive Ethernet, CAN, and LIN networks.
- Analyze software behavior, debug integration issues, investigate test failures, and collaborate with development teams to drive issue resolution.
- Review system and cybersecurity requirements, identify coverage gaps, and ensure traceability between requirements, test cases, and test results.
- Support automated test execution and integration into CI pipelines.
- Participate in design and architecture reviews to provide feedback on cybersecurity feature implementation, testability, and system-level integration.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity, embedded software, system architecture, and domain teams throughout the software development and validation lifecycle.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, or a related field.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in automotive embedded software, system integration, ECU testing, or vehicle network development. Including a minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in automotive cybersecurity feature verification, requirements-based testing, or embedded software security testing.
- Strong understanding of automotive E/E architecture, distributed ECU systems, and embedded software integration.
- Experience testing automotive cybersecurity mechanisms such as secure boot, secure flashing/software updates, ECU authentication, key management, HSM, and diagnostic security.
- Hands-on experience with automotive debugging and test tools such as Lauterbach Debugger, Vector CANoe/CAPL, Vector VT System, and dSPACE HIL systems.
- Strong programming and scripting skills in CAPL and Python; knowledge of C/C++ is an advantage.
- Solid understanding of automotive communication protocols, including CAN (ISO 11898-1), LIN (ISO 17987-1), and Automotive Ethernet.
- Basic understanding of SOME/IP and automotive diagnostic protocols (UDS).
- Experience with requirements-driven testing, test case development, execution, defect reporting, and test result analysis.
- Familiarity with test management and requirements management tools such as DOORS Next Generation, IBM RTC, and Jira.
- Understanding of software development, system integration, and validation processes in the automotive industry.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience with cybersecurity testing of Qualcomm-based or other automotive HPC platforms.
- Experience with zonal architecture and integration of centralized vehicle computing platforms.
- Understanding of automotive cybersecurity standards such as ISO/SAE 21434 and UNECE R155.
- Experience with HSM-based security architectures and hardware-backed cryptographic mechanisms.
- Knowledge of secure diagnostic services, certificate management, key provisioning, and vehicle cybersecurity lifecycle management.
- Experience with test automation frameworks and CI/CD integration.
- ISTQB certification or equivalent knowledge of structured software testing methodologies.
OUR BENEFITS - DESIGNED WITH YOU IN MIND
Comprehensive Health & Well-being Coverage
From your very first day, you'll have access to medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage - ensuring you and your family stay healthy and protected.
Generous Paid Time Off
We believe in work-life balance. That's why we offer: 17+ paid holidays, including shut-down from December 24th through New Years Day every year. Vacation, float & wellbeing days, sick time and fully paid parental leave when your family needs you most.
Competitive Retirement Savings Plans
We help you plan for the future with:
- An employer match on contributions to your 401k, Roth, and Catch-Up plans
- An employer contribution, even if you don't contribute
Income Protection & Insurance Options
Benefit from included and optional disability, life, and other insurance programs - because your peace of mind matters.
Company Vehicle Lease Program
Eligible employees and their immediate families can enjoy company vehicle lease options with included insurance, maintenance, and unlimited mileage. Plus, take advantage of exclusive discounts on Stellantis products.
Family Building Benefit
We proudly support all paths to parenthood - including fertility and infertility treatments, adoption services, and gestational surrogacy.
Support for Your Growth and Giving Back
We believe in investing in your future and your passions:
- Tuition reimbursement
- Student loan refinancing programs
- 18 paid volunteer hours each year to make a difference in your community
And so much more!
When you join us, you're not just building a career - you're joining a company that supports you, inside and outside of work.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Lead Test Engineer
Map your degree to the role
USCIS requires a direct connection between your bachelor's degree field and the Lead Test Engineer position. A degree in electrical engineering, computer science, or software engineering typically satisfies this. A general business or unrelated STEM degree will likely trigger an RFE.
Verify prevailing wage before negotiating
Your employer's LCA must certify a wage at or above the DOL prevailing wage for your location and role level. Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up Level III or IV wages for your metro area before you enter salary discussions.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Use Migrate Mate to find employers who have filed LCAs for test engineering roles. Active filing history signals that a company's HR and legal teams already understand the sponsorship process, which reduces delays after you receive an offer.
Distinguish your leadership scope in job materials
Lead-level roles face closer specialty occupation scrutiny because they blend technical and managerial duties. Your resume and any USCIS support letter should quantify the technical depth of your work, such as designing test frameworks or owning defect triage systems, not just team oversight.
Ask about PERM timing during offer negotiation
If you're on H-1B and planning for a green card, ask whether the employer starts PERM within your first year. Lead Test Engineer roles often require a full recruitment audit, and India-born candidates face multi-year priority date backlogs under EB-2 and EB-3.
Confirm TN eligibility if you hold Canadian or Mexican citizenship
Lead Test Engineer can qualify under TN status if your degree aligns with the Engineer category on the USMCA profession list. TN requires no lottery and renews in three-year increments, but it doesn't allow dual intent, so green card planning must be handled separately.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Lead Test Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B?
Yes, in most cases. USCIS evaluates whether the position normally requires a bachelor's degree in a specific technical field. Lead Test Engineer roles grounded in software, hardware, or systems engineering typically meet this standard. Problems arise when job descriptions list broad duties that USCIS interprets as not requiring a specific degree, so a detailed position description from your employer matters.
Which visa types commonly sponsor Lead Test Engineers?
H-1B is the most common path for Lead Test Engineers from outside Canada and Mexico. Canadian and Mexican nationals can pursue TN status under the Engineer category, which has no cap and no lottery. Australian citizens may qualify for E-3 visa. Candidates already in the U.S. on F-1 OPT or STEM OPT can work while an H-1B petition is pending, provided the role relates to their degree field.
How do I find Lead Test Engineer jobs where employers are open to sponsorship?
Browse Migrate Mate to find Lead Test Engineer roles posted by employers with verified LCA sponsorship history. Filtering by employers who have already filed for similar roles in the past saves time and improves your odds of a smooth process after the offer.
What degree does a Lead Test Engineer need for visa sponsorship?
USCIS expects a bachelor's degree or higher in a directly related field, most commonly computer science, electrical engineering, software engineering, or computer engineering. A degree in a field like management information systems may qualify depending on how the employer frames the job duties. Unrelated degrees can sometimes be bridged with a credential evaluation showing the equivalent of a qualifying U.S. degree, combined with progressive work experience.
Will moving from a mid-level to a Lead Test Engineer title affect my H-1B petition?
A promotion to Lead changes both the prevailing wage requirement and the specialty occupation analysis. Your employer must file an amended H-1B petition with USCIS reflecting the new title, duties, and wage level before or shortly after the role change. The amended petition also requires a new LCA certified at the prevailing wage for the Lead-level position in your work location, which may be a higher wage level than your previous role.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Lead Test Engineer jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.