Principal Engineer - Software and Validation

Distinctive and without equal, Lotus stands alone as a brand dedicated to delivering a pure driving experience.

Our founder, Colin Chapman famously said, ‘Adding power makes you faster on the straights, subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere,’ and that thinking has become part of our DNA.

Every Lotus benefits from the company’s dedication to engineering, optimising and refining at every stage of the design and construction process

Key duties and responsibilities

  • Define software control, quality and maintenance processes
  • Develop and maintain top-level vehicle software requirements including feature implementation and maturity growth plans 
  • Establish and maintain the company software issues tracking system
  • Review and approve software development, verification & validation and control plans
  • Support release activities of electrical systems in the software domain
  • Establish integration test requirements
  • Ensure software parts are correctly structured in the BoM

Qualifications and Experience 

  • Electronics, Control Systems, Automotive or similar honours engineering degree with an overall grade 2:1 or higher.  A post graduate qualification would be preferred.
  • Expert understanding of automotive software design, development, release and distribution
  • Software development life-cycle and methodologies
  • Integration and validation testing
  • Team and project leadership experience
  • Practical experience of vehicle electrical architectures, communication protocols and diagnostics