Senior Vehicle Electrical Control Systems (VECS) Engineer (Automotive)

Location: Wyoming, Minnesota, USA; the role involves hands-on vehicle development and testing.

Starting pay: $96,000–$127,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global is a global powersports manufacturer developing off-road vehicles, snowmobiles, motorcycles, electric vehicles, boats, parts, garments, and accessories.

What you will do

• Own assigned off-road vehicle electrical features from concept through integrated vehicle realization, including feature intent, requirements, execution, integration, and readiness.
• Define customer experiences, feature behavior, tradeoffs, acceptance criteria, functional architectures, interfaces, and technical direction.
• Develop traceable requirements and models using Codebeamer or similar tools, MATLAB/Simulink, Stateflow, and related simulation methods.
• Lead cross-functional execution with product, architecture, component, validation, manufacturing, service, safety, cybersecurity, regulatory, and program teams.
• Create prototypes, system-level test cases, integration plans, and perform vehicle testing, calibration, CAN-data analysis, issue triage, and production-readiness assessments.
• Lead feature risk and compliance activities, including DFMEAs, and contribute to VECS standards, guidelines, templates, and best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Ability to translate ambiguous customer or business needs into clear technical behavior, decisions, and actionable requirements.
• Strong communication and technical leadership skills, including facilitating alignment and moving cross-functional teams toward decisions.
• Experience with requirements development, systems engineering, functional decomposition, interface definition, or requirements-management tools.
• Experience with model-based engineering methods or tools such as MATLAB/Simulink, Stateflow, SysML, or UML.
• Working knowledge of CAN-based embedded systems, vehicle-network data diagnosis, and hands-on work with vehicles, test equipment, software tools, and incomplete early-development systems.
• Leadership, communication, and technical or functional expertise sufficient to guide others and deliver results.
• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Former employees must be eligible for rehire, and current employees must be in good standing.

Nice to have

• Experience in powersports, automotive, commercial vehicle, off-highway, aerospace, robotics, or another complex embedded-system industry.
• Experience with Codebeamer, Jama, PTC RV&S, DOORS, or a comparable requirements-management platform.
• Proficiency with MATLAB/Simulink and Stateflow, including controls modeling, simulation, or automated analysis.
• Experience with Vector CANalyzer or CANoe, CAPL, J1939, UDS, CAN FD, diagnostics, calibration, log-data analysis, vehicles, benches, Model-in-the-Loop, Software-in-the-Loop, or System-HIL environments.
• Experience with feature-level DFMEA, HARA, functional safety, cybersecurity, regulatory or technical design reviews, embedded controller concepts, or programming in MATLAB, Python, C, C++, or a similar language.

Culture & Benefits

• Agile working environment with challenging assignments, elevated responsibility, and a focus on innovation.
• Competitive compensation with a market-leading profit-sharing plan.
• Employee ownership through company contributions to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan and discounted employee stock purchases.
• 401(k) matching, financial wellness education, health, dental, vision, life, disability, and wellness benefits.
• Paid time off, gym and personal training reimbursement, and paid volunteer time through the hirify.global Gives program.