Full-Time
ADAS Validation Engineering Leader
Updated on 9/3/2026
Expleo
10,001+ employees
End-to-end engineering, tech consulting, quality services
No salary listed
Valladolid, Spain
Hybrid
Hybrid work model in Valladolid.
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- Experience with Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and embedded systems.
- Knowledge of radar, computer vision, or ultrasonic technologies.
- Experience with DOORS, MATLAB, or Simulink.
- Knowledge of Controller Area Network, Local Interconnect Network, and vehicle electronic systems.
- Define validation strategies for radar, camera, and ultrasonic sensors.
- Specify Model-in-the-Loop and Hardware-in-the-Loop environments.
- Adapt validation plans to each project.
- Lead component- and system-level integration and validation activities.
- Manage incidents and anomalies detected during testing.
- Coordinate with development, functional safety, and regulatory teams.
- Prepare final validation reports and documentation.
- Experience with CarMaker or equivalent tools.
Expleo provides end-to-end engineering, technology consulting, and quality services to help organizations navigate digital transformation. Born from SQS’s software quality assurance heritage and later merged with Assystem’s engineering and R&D strength, Expleo combines testing prowess with broader design and development capabilities. It distinguishes itself by offering integrated software quality, engineering, and digital transformation services under one umbrella across sectors such as banking and telecommunications. Its goal is to help clients design, build, test, deploy, and maintain reliable, scalable software-enabled systems.
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Headquarters
Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France
Founded
1966
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- UK Defence Investment Plan unlocked £298 billion for software-defined systems Expleo sells into.
- Expleo's May 2026 hybrid navy and April 2026 cabin programs target active procurement cycles.
- FY26 consolidated revenue rose 8.1% to ₹11,080 million, and clients reached 203.
What critics are saying
- Rajesh Krishnamurthy left Expleo in February 2026, exposing leadership continuity risk during transformation.
- Expleo Solutions' FY26 standalone revenue fell 6.41%, while subsidiaries carried group growth.
- If AI automates testing and verification faster than Expleo adapts, commoditization erodes margins by 2027.
What makes Expleo unique
- Expleo combines systems engineering, software assurance, and certification across aerospace, defense, and rail.
- Walter Cappilati's January 2026 mandate spans Aerotec, Silver Atena, Stirling Dynamics, and Moorhouse Consulting.
- Expleo's joint AIX 2026 and Space Tech Expo shows integrated cabin and payload expertise.
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↑ 9%UK business leaders hit an 'AI autonomy cliff' as decision-making stakes rise. August 25, 2026 New research from Expleo, the engineering, technology and consulting services provider, reveals an 'AI autonomy cliff' among UK business leaders, with trust falling sharply when AI moves from supporting routine workplace tasks to making higher-stakes decisions. Nearly three quarters (73%) trust AI to summarise emails, documents or meeting notes. But confidence drops to 54% when AI makes decisions within predefined rules or guardrails, and to 43% when it approves financial or budget-related transactions. Comfort remains relatively high when AI plays a lower-risk supporting role: 72% are comfortable using it to organise calendars and schedule meetings, 65% with it approving low-risk administrative actions, and 64% with it prioritising tasks and recommending next steps. Caution is greatest where decisions could have lasting financial, personal or organisational consequences. While 54% are comfortable with AI making decisions within predefined rules or guardrails, this falls to 43% for financial or budget-related approvals. Meanwhile, 43% are uncomfortable about AI making hiring or HR-related decisions, rising to 46% for strategic business decisions. Jeff Hoyle, MD UK at Expleo, said: "The greater the consequence of a decision, the more proof leaders need before handing it to AI. A poor summary can be spotted and corrected quickly; a flawed financial or employment decision may be much harder to reverse. "Businesses need to be clear about where AI can act independently and where a person must remain accountable. For higher-risk uses, that means agreed approval points and a clear record of how each decision was reached." The caution around autonomous decision-making comes despite a broader improvement in UK attitudes towards AI. Following the previous month's tracker low, the overall Expleo AI Pulse sentiment score increased by two points, from 63 to 65. Confidence in organisations' ability to use AI successfully rose from 62% to 67%, excitement about its opportunities increased from 63% to 65%, and trust in organisations to use AI ethically climbed from 69% to 74%. At the same time, concern about how AI is transforming organisations rose from 35% to 39%. Cybersecurity remains a prominent concern, with 59% worried about the risks AI poses to organisations, up from 58%. Hoyle added: "The findings demonstrate that trust falls away when AI moves into higher-stakes decision-making. It can support people with routine, reversible tasks, but when a decision affects someone's job, a company's finances or its strategic direction, human judgement and accountability must remain central. "That principle is especially important in defence and other safety-critical or highly regulated environments, where the consequences of error can be severe. AI may inform or accelerate a decision, but the organisation must demonstrate that the system is reliable, understand how it reached its output and keep a suitably qualified human in the loop with the authority to challenge or override it." About Expleo Expleo is a global engineering, technology and consulting service provider that partners with leading organisations to guide them through their business transformation, helping them achieve operational excellence and future-proof their businesses. Expleo benefits from more than 50 years of experience developing complex products, optimising manufacturing processes, and ensuring the quality of information systems. Leveraging its deep sector knowledge and wide-ranging expertise in fields including AI engineering, digitalisation, hyperautomation, cybersecurity and data science, the group's mission is to fast-track innovation through each step of the value chain. As a responsible and diverse organisation, Expleo is committed to doing business with integrity and working towards a more sustainable and secure society. Expleo boasts an extensive global footprint, powered by 17,000 highly skilled experts delivering value in 29 countries and generating more than €1.3 billion in revenue. Hot this week
Expleo welcomes UK Defence Investment Plan, highlighting the role of digital engineering in future defence delivery. * Expleo welcomes the UK Defence Investment Plan's focus on software-defined, autonomous defence systems. * Expleo links the £298bn plan to growing demand for digital engineering in defence delivery. * The plan includes funding for GCAP, Collaborative Combat Aircraft and Hybrid Navy. * Delivery depends on systems engineering, software assurance, integration, verification and validation. * Expleo highlights the importance of sovereign engineering capability across the UK defence industrial base. London, UK, 22 July 2026 - Expleo, the global engineering, technology and consulting services provider, welcomes the UK Government's Defence Investment Plan and says its focus on software-defined, digitally enabled and autonomous systems underlines the growing role of digital engineering in successful programme delivery. Published on 30 June 2026 by the Ministry of Defence and HM Treasury, the plan sets out £298 billion of investment across the next four years, including an additional £15 billion between 2026-27 and 2029-30. The Government has confirmed that core NATO defence spending will reach 2.7% of GDP from 2027-28, with the wider investment expected to support nearly 60,000 additional direct and indirect jobs across the UK by the end of the decade. The plan makes major commitments across aerospace and maritime programmes, including £8.6 billion for the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), £300 million for Collaborative Combat Aircraft, and more than £5 billion for drones and uncrewed systems. It also includes funding to begin work on the Hybrid Navy, which combines crewed and uncrewed platforms with advanced integration and autonomy. Jonathan Taylor, incoming UK Managing Director at Expleo, said: "This is a welcome and much-needed blueprint from Government, with real commitment behind it. Across aerospace and maritime, the plan sets out a clear strategic direction that hinges on software-defined, connected and autonomous systems. The task now is delivery, and that will be the hard part - the defence sector will need to work together to deliver these programmes safely, securely and at pace." Collaboration key to ensuring safe and secure delivery of plan. As defence programmes become more software-defined, connected and autonomous, digital engineering provides the structure needed to manage complexity from early design through to in-service support. Verification, validation, software assurance and systems integration then help ensure systems can be deployed, updated and sustained safely. Taylor added: "The engineering work behind these programmes is changing. More software, more autonomy and more integration between systems means more work upfront on requirements, interfaces, testing and assurance. That is why digital engineering is so important to programmes like the Hybrid Navy. Once these systems are in service, there can be no grey areas on safety or security." Delivering the Defence Investment Plan will require strong sovereign engineering capability across the UK's defence industrial base. Prime contractors, specialist engineering partners and supply chains will need to work closely from the earliest stages of programmes, particularly where software, autonomy and complex interfaces are central to delivery. The plan's focus on strengthening the defence investment ecosystem and mobilising public and private capital points to the need for established systems engineering, simulation, verification and validation, software assurance and integration expertise, particularly as funded programmes move from design intent into safe, secure and deployable capability. Taylor concluded: "Successful delivery will come down to the engineering on these programmes. Digital engineering has to work with robust systems engineering, integration and assurance from the start. That is how the UK defence sector will succeed in turning funded programmes into deployable operational capability the armed forces can trust in service." Industry. Topic. Found this useful? news & insights
Expleo-Intersect fintech talent partnership in Palestine. Expleo and Intersect have partnered to build a structured fintech talent pipeline in Palestine, targeting the skills gap constraining digital financial services and customer experience quality. Renascence Newsdesk What happened. Global engineering and technology services firm Expleo has entered a partnership with Intersect, a Palestinian fintech and digital-skills organisation, to develop financial-technology talent in Palestine. The collaboration aims to build a pipeline of trained professionals capable of supporting the growth of fintech services in the region, combining Expleo's international expertise in technology consulting with Intersect's on-the-ground presence in the Palestinian market. The partnership focuses on structured training, capacity-building and skills development programmes targeted at emerging fintech professionals. By aligning international industry standards with local educational and professional development efforts, the two organisations intend to close the skills gap that has constrained fintech adoption and service quality in Palestine. Why it matters. Talent is one of the most consequential - and most overlooked - levers in customer experience design. When the people building and operating financial services lack deep product and service knowledge, the downstream effect is felt directly by customers: friction-laden onboarding, poorly designed digital journeys and support interactions that erode rather than build trust. Investing in fintech talent is, in effect, investing in the quality of every customer touchpoint those professionals will eventually shape. From a behavioural economics standpoint, underserved markets such as Palestine present a significant opportunity to design financial services that meet customers where they are - culturally, linguistically and economically. A locally trained talent base is far better positioned to understand the cognitive and emotional context of Palestinian consumers than imported expertise alone. Partnerships of this kind can therefore accelerate the shift from generic, transplanted product models towards genuinely human-centred financial services. The Renascence take. Most commentary on fintech growth in frontier and emerging markets fixates on infrastructure - payments rails, regulatory sandboxes, mobile penetration. The Expleo-Intersect partnership quietly points to something more foundational: the human layer underneath the technology stack. What most observers will miss is that talent development is a CX strategy, not merely an HR one. The professionals trained through this programme will make thousands of micro-decisions - about interface copy, service recovery protocols, onboarding flows - that collectively define how Palestinian customers experience financial services. Customer-obsessed operators in the region should treat workforce capability as a design input, not an afterthought. The real question is not how many people are trained, but whether the curriculum is built around customer outcomes rather than technical compliance. This briefing was written by the Renascence newsdesk, synthesising reporting from the outlets below. Follow the links for the original coverage. More in Fintech Stay ahead of CX Get the signal, not the noise. The stories shaping customer experience - plus the Journal and Experience Loom - in your inbox.
Expleo and Intersect, backed by Bank of Palestine, partner to advance digital innovation and workforce transformation. 14/07/2026 Expleo and Intersect, backed by Bank of Palestine, partner to advance digital innovation and workforce transformation Accelerating regional technology expertise through talent development, academic collaboration and applied innovation. Ramallah, Palestine, 14 July 2026 - Expleo, the global engineering, technology, and consulting service provider, announces a strategic partnership with Intersect Innovation Hub, a non-profit business incubator backed by Bank of Palestine, a leading financial institution in Palestine, to build a home-grown, job-ready tech talent pipeline for deployment on Expleo-led projects in Palestine and across the Middle East. As businesses accelerate AI-driven transformation, project requirements are becoming more specialised. Bridging the gap between academic learning and industry expectations has become one of the biggest barriers to finding suitable talent. Organisations continue to invest significant time in helping new hires build the practical skills, industry exposure, and project experience needed before they can contribute to customer engagements. Career-connected learning is the need of the hour, and the responsibility cannot sit with universities alone. Businesses are recognising the value of engaging much earlier in the talent journey. This partnership takes a different approach to that familiar industry problem. Rather than relying only on traditional training delivery models, Expleo and Intersect will work directly with Palestinian universities to shape technology coursework around the skills employers actually need, so that graduates are ready to contribute to live projects from day one, not months into onboarding. Each partner brings its own expertise. Expleo is an established services provider in the Middle East, partnering with companies across projects in banking, engineering, digital assurance, and broader technology consulting. Intersect acts as the connector to the local ecosystem: students, entrepreneurs, and universities. Meanwhile, Bank of Palestine provides the strategic backing for the partnership through its support of Intersect, building on its long-standing commitment to innovation, entrepreneurship, and human capital development. By supporting initiatives that strengthen the link between academia and industry, the Bank is helping create sustainable pathways for Palestinian talent to access regional and global technology opportunities. Together, the partners aim to build opportunities for Palestinian talent, strengthen the link between industry and academia, and help grow a technology ecosystem that can hold its own regionally and globally. A partnership centred on three priorities Talent development and deployment: Nurturing Palestinian engineering graduates to make them deployment-ready, whether that's supporting Expleo's operations inside Palestine or contributing remotely to Expleo's Middle East client engagements. The intent is to develop, connect and mobilise quality talent, making this a repeatable, sustainable channel. Academia support for skill development: Co-creating technology-focused course content with Palestinian universities so that what students learn maps more closely to evolving industry needs, closing the education-to-employment gap. Innovation and ecosystem enablement: Creating a space where companies, universities, and local institutions can come together to advance AI engineering and assurance capabilities and solve shared industry problems, building a self-sustaining model for lasting economic growth. The partnership supports a longer-term ambition to strengthen Palestine's position in the global technology landscape, delivering benefits for enterprises across sectors including banking, financial services, insurance, telecommunications, manufacturing, FMCG, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, as well as government and public-sector organisations. Phani Tangirala, Managing Director - India of Expleo, said: "At its core, this partnership is about people: creating opportunities, building talent, and connecting it to work that matters. Intersect and Bank of Palestine understand what's happening on the ground in Palestine's universities and communities, and we bring the projects and platforms where that talent can grow. It's a reciprocal model, and together, we're building the kind of systems that open up real, global-scale work for Palestine's next generation of engineers." For his part, Mr. Mahmoud Shawa, CEO of Bank of Palestine, "affirmed that this partnership represents a strategic milestone in the Group's journey toward building global partnerships that deliver sustainable impact for Palestinian youth. He added that it reflects the Group's vision of investing in human capital as the true driver of development and innovation." Shawa added, through Intersect Group, BOP is working to build a platform that connects Palestinian talent with the global economy, opening new horizons for young people, engineers, and entrepreneurs to learn, develop, and work on international projects. This will enhance their competitiveness and create real economic opportunities within Palestine. For her part, Dr. Mona Al-Dmaidi, speaking on behalf of Intersect Group, "affirmed that this partnership reflects the vision of the Group and its main supporter, Bank of Palestine, in recognizing the importance of investing in Palestinian talent as the foundation of development and innovation." Through its collaboration with Expleo, BOP seek to build an integrated entrepreneurial journey that begins with Palestinian youth at the university level, continues through training and capacity-building, and ultimately leads to the creation of quality job opportunities. This partnership will also empower Palestinian talent to contribute to regional and global projects, strengthening their competitiveness and supporting the Palestinian economy, she said.
Expleo to spotlight hybrid navy integration at Combined Naval Event 2026. Update media group21 May 2026comments off on Expleo to spotlight hybrid navy integration at Combined Naval Event 2026. * Expleo to spotlight hybrid navy integration at Combined Naval Event 2026 in Farnborough * The company will discuss how navies can align people, data and platforms to support hybrid fleet operations * Focus includes crewed and uncrewed systems and through-life support * Jonathan Taylor of Expleo says hybrid navy success depends on aligning people, data and platforms from day one * The company will exhibit at stand F08 at Farnborough from 19-21 May Expleo, London, UK, May 2026 - Expleo, the engineering, technology and consulting company, will highlight its approach to supporting hybrid navy programmes at the Combined Naval Event 2026, where it will discuss the integration of crewed and uncrewed systems and through-life support for modern navies. The event, taking place on 19-21 May at Farnborough, brings together naval leaders, defence officials and industry representatives to discuss capability development, readiness and multi-domain operations. Expleo will focus its presence at this year's show on the engineering and support challenges involved in bringing hybrid fleets into service, including the alignment of people, data and platforms. VP of Marine, Space and Nuclear at Expleo, Jonathan Taylor, said: ""The conversation on hybrid navies has shifted in recent years. It's no longer a question of whether they're coming or what capabilities matter most, because they're already here. The next challenge is to deliver operational confidence through readiness and resilience that's built in from day one. "Success depends on people, data and platforms being integrated as part of a single, operational system. When that alignment is missing, it results in friction at the point of deployment. It also leads to reduced interoperability, slower command decisions and greater vulnerability across the mission and support chain." Taylor added: JET Digital Media Ltd is seeing a growing realisation that the transition to a hybrid Navy will be judged not by how many autonomous systems can be trialled, procured or launched, but by whether it can be sustained as part of a fleet that offers maximum operational advantage. [JW1] The Combined Naval Event 2026 takes place from 19-21 May at the Farnborough International Exhibition Centre. Expleo will be exhibiting at stand F08. [JW1]swap over with the with the bottom quote - it makes more sense