About River

River is a design company building multi-utility products. Our flagship product River Indie, #SUVofScooters, is designed to help you get things done. Engineered to be a dependable ally on your road to success.

We’re a 1000+ team headquartered in Bengaluru – backed by marquee international investors, with mobility-focused funds linked to Yamaha Motors, Al-Futtaim Automotive Group, Toyota VC, Trucks Venture Capital, Mitsui & Co. Ltd, Marubeni Ventures Inc., Lowercarbon Capital, and Maniv Mobility.

Key Responsibilities

- Design and develop test approaches & rigs in sync with physical and functional design of mechanical components.
- Lead capability to simulate functions and failures in rig and lab environment with their function, reliability and durability understanding.
- Bring in benchmarking and customer application driven test capability in a lab environment.
- Ability to converge virtual simulation, design and customer application driven physics in a lab environment.
- Develop a risk-based test strategy, plan test procedures and author test cases based on PRD, Field Failures and DFMEA documents.
- Develop and Maintain Validation Test Plan for complete two wheeler systems including chassis, suspension, brakes and transmission etc.
- To prioritize tasks and allocate resources effectively to meet project deadlines.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including designers, component owners,



product and quality assurance to define test plans and acceptance criteria.
- Lead teams to Identify sensors, actuators, vendors and data acquisition systems relevant to each of the functional components and integrate them in the lab capability.

Ideal Candidate

- Overall 12 to 18 years of experience in the validation/testing workplace of 2 wheeler or automotive systems.
- Demonstrated experience in developing detailed validation plans & reports based on functional and regulatory requirements.
- Detailed design and functional understanding of critical two wheeler components : Brakes, Suspension, Chassis, Steering.
- Know best engineering practices and associated design evaluation methods of above mentioned components and systems.
- Critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Knowledge of testing and failure detection/identification.
- Understanding of Fatigue, vibration and wear driven failure modes and associated underlying physics.
- DFMEA, DFR and Process FMEA understanding to define critical test cases and boundary conditions.
- Develop test setups, select instrumentation, and ensure accurate data acquisition required for hydraulic, pneumatic and mechanical test systems.
- Document and develop test rigs while working with SPM manufacturers.
- Ability to identify infrastructural requirements for test equipment and associated systems.

📌 Principal Engineer - Mechanical Validation (Bengaluru)
🏢 River
📍 Bengaluru