What are the responsibilities and job description for the Vehicle Electrical Architect position at LER TechForce?
Are you looking to work for a company that provides an innovative work environment, and your voice is heard? We are currently recruiting for a Vehicle Wiring Architect to work in Wixom. This role will require the engineer to be onsite 3-4 days a week.
This position does not allow for visa sponsorship.
Who we are:
LER TechForce is an industry leader in embedded controls, software, functional safety, and engineering talent. For over 20 years LER has been working with customers across North America. Follow us at: LER TechForce on LinkedIn.
What you will be doing:
- Own and develop the overall vehicle wiring architecture, including harness partitioning, electrical interfaces, grounding strategy, power distribution, and communication-network topology.
- Define how electrical components and systems are connected across the vehicle.
- Develop and maintain vehicle-level electrical block diagrams, wiring schematics, interface definitions, and architecture documentation using Capital Harness.
- Establish harness boundaries, inline-connector locations, routing strategies, and subsystem interfaces.
- Define circuit requirements, including wire sizing, voltage drop, fuse protection, shielding, grounding, and connector requirements.
- Manage wiring architecture across vehicle options, configurations, and future product variants.
- Work with component DREs, wiring DREs, electrical architecture, controls, mechanical packaging, manufacturing, service, and suppliers to ensure system compatibility.
- Optimize the wiring system for cost, mass, complexity, manufacturability, serviceability, and reliability.
- Support electrical DFMEAs, functional-safety reviews, EMC analysis, and system-level design reviews.
- Lead resolution of cross-functional electrical interface and wiring issues during vehicle development and validation.
- Support Mule, DV, PV, and production builds, including root-cause analysis and implementation of design improvements.
- Maintain configuration control and ensure wiring changes are properly incorporated across schematics, harness designs, vehicle documentation, and released components.
What you'll need to be successful:
Essential:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
- 3-8 years of automotive electrical or wiring-harness engineering experience.
- Experience with Capital Harness software suite.
- Strong understanding of vehicle electrical distribution systems, wiring topology, grounding, circuit protection, and network architecture.
- Experience developing full-vehicle wiring architectures across multiple vehicle configurations.
- Knowledge of low-voltage and high-voltage electrical systems, including separation, shielding, grounding, and interface requirements.
- Experience with electrical schematic and harness-development tools such as Capital, VeSys, or equivalent.
- Understanding of automotive development processes, including Mule, DV, PV, and production launch.
- Working knowledge of automotive wiring standards, connector systems, EMC requirements, and design-for-manufacturing principles.
- Ability to coordinate technical decisions across multiple engineering teams, suppliers, and vehicle programs.
What you'll get:
- Full benefits: medical, dental, vision, HSA and FSA
- 401K with a match and immediate vesting
- Short-term and Long-term disability, life insurance and other optional benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Discounts
- Ongoing professional development opportunities including Technical Training and Leadership Development
- The opportunity to work on industry leading projects