Senior Electrical Systems Engineer, Body Controls

Open to Long Beach or Palo Alto, CA

This team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

What you'll do...

• Drive the electrical architectural direction for body control subsystems, performing trade studies to optimize for cost, weight, and performance against the long-term vehicle roadmap.

• Author hardware and functional specifications to ensure subsystem components can meet vehicle behavior definitions and user stories

• Lead the end-to-end integration of body controls hardware and software on electrical test assets such as benches, bucks, labcars, and vehicles to ensure core functionality meets all requirements.

• Translate high-level objectives into actionable requirements for suppliers and internal firmware teams, owning the logical and physical interface documentation (block diagrams, boundary diagrams, and network artifacts).

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for resolving complex system-level issues, using a first principles approach to perform root-cause analysis across hardware, software, and network interfaces.

• Develop and execute comprehensive test plans that validate firmware stability, performance, and edge-case behaviors under various conditions, including low power modes.

• Partner with software integration and architecture teams to broadcast software-level requirements and align with electrical hardware specifications throughout all vehicle program development phases.

• Apply functional safety principles (ISO 26262) to complex vehicle subsystems, participating in safety analyses and defining robust validation strategies that ensure vehicle homologation.

You'll have...

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Systems Engineering, with evidence of exceptional ability, or equivalent experience.

• 7 years of experience in complex electrical systems design and integration, with a proven track record of taking a product from concept through production.

• 7 years of experience with Vehicle Network Protocols such as CAN, LIN & Automotive Ethernet.

• Strong electrical hardware fundamentals and hands-on experience with electrical test equipment (oscilloscopes, DMMs, signal generators, power supplies, etc.).

• Experience with requirements management tools (JAMA or equivalent) and creating/modifying network interface description files.

• Experience and working knowledge of systems development, vehicle architecture, functional safety, network, and diagnostics processes.

• Experience developing and integrating body controls hardware components in prototype and production environments.

Even better, you may have...

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or related fields.

• Highly collaborative mindset and strong communication skills.

• Experience with Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment (HARA).

• Hands-on experience in hardware bring-up, system debugging, and in-vehicle troubleshooting.

• Working knowledge of hardware-to-software interfaces, including RTOS and driver development.

• Ability to perform cost-benefit analysis and technical trade studies, presenting recommendations to senior leadership.

• Experience with electrical / electro-mechanical devices involving networked microcontrollers and embedded software.

Pay rate range : $80-91/hour