We’re ALTEN Technology USA, 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.
Job Description:
- Alten is seeking a qualified Performance Specialist who will be responsible for guaranteeing the performance of ADAS systems, and to set core performance targets within their competence area.
- They will be responsible for competitive benchmarking, vehicle assessments, and technical requirement management for ADAS features on production and future vehicle applications.
Key Job Duties:
- To support objective performance targets for all ADAS features based benchmarks analysis of competitive landscape, translated voice-of-customer, and industry knowledge into engineering requirements.
- Create and support for test plan for the engineering team
- Creation of detailed testing procedures for client requirements for ADAS features.
- Identify and resolve cross-functional issues affecting ADAS performance
- To support the development and Validation of ADAS performances on vehicles
- To collect objective data to quantify the subjective feeling, or to clarify the gap between the status and the goal/target when necessary
- To create know how of ADAS features worked and to support road map development
- To create benchmark on main ADAS and features of competitors
- Technical requirement management for ADAS features
- Alignment of Requirements with Testing Procedures
Basic Qualifications:
- BSc in Electrical, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent from an ABET accredited or equivalent university
- Knowledge of automotive dynamics and vehicle engineering variables affecting performance
- ISO/IEC 15288 – Systems Engineering framework knowledge
- Proficient in Google Docs, Sheets, and Pages
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to adapt to major strategy shifts whilst ensuring work continuity and motivation
- Market knowledge of competitive automotive ADAS, market trends and safety protocols (e.g. NCAP, IIHS, NHTSA )
Preferred Qualifications:
- 2 years of experience within the area of ADAS product development
- Understanding of Client vehicle and electrical engineering development milestones
- Understanding of the V-model development process and requirements traceability
- PLM experience
- MSc in Mechanical, Electrical Engineering or Equivalent
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.
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Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.
Skills Required
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent from an ABET-accredited or equivalent university
- Knowledge of automotive dynamics and vehicle engineering variables affecting performance
- Knowledge of the ISO/IEC 15288 systems engineering framework
- Proficiency in Google Docs, Sheets, and Pages
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to adapt to major strategy shifts while maintaining work continuity and motivation
- Market knowledge of competitive automotive ADAS, market trends, and safety protocols such as NCAP, IIHS, and NHTSA
- Two years of experience in ADAS product development
- Understanding of client vehicle and electrical engineering development milestones
- Understanding of V-model development and requirements traceability
- Product Lifecycle Management experience
- Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
What We Do
ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering consulting company that provides innovative solutions for engineering, IT, and product development projects across the product life cycle. For decades, ALTEN Technology USA has been helping clients develop products that are changing the world, whether by shaping the future of space exploration, saving lives with medical devices that set new standards of care or creating the fully autonomous electric taxi of tomorrow. The company provides support across industries including aerospace, defense, MedTech and life sciences, unmanned systems and robotics, automotive OEM and tier 1 suppliers, commercial vehicles, electric vehicles, energy and environment, rail, and more.
Why Work With Us
Potential clients in the industries we serve, Professionals in the Industries, and Potential employees within New Product Development, Engineering Services, Sustaining Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Embedded Electronics Engineering, Software Engineering and IT, Mechanical Engineering, and Systems Engineering.
