Senior Vehicle Electrical Systems Engineer

Mission of the Role

We are looking for a Senior Vehicle Electrical Systems Engineer to own the vehicle-level electrical architecture of our autonomous driving platform. You will define how our autonomy kit — compute, sensors, actuators, and control units — integrates electrically with the base vehicle, and set the electrical design standards. Our vehicles operate in outdoor industrial environments such as port container terminals and airport airside areas.

Key Responsibilities

• Electrical architecture & design

  • Own the vehicle-level electrical architecture: power distribution, grounding and bonding, shielding, and circuit protection.
  • Translate system architecture and written requirements into electrical designs, and maintain traceability from requirement → schematic → harness → test.
  • Define the electrical interfaces between the autonomy kit and the base vehicle, and own the schematics, wiring diagrams, interface control documents (ICDs), and harness drawings that govern them.
  • Design onboard communication networks (CAN / CAN-FD / Automotive Ethernet), including topology, termination, and shielding.
  • Design safety-related circuits — emergency-stop chains, interlocks, and fail-safe behavior.
  • Select and qualify wire, connectors, terminals, relays, and protection devices against the temperature, vibration, and ingress requirements of outdoor deployment.

  Analysis, integration & debug

  • Build, rework, and validate prototype harnesses and wiring; iterate designs from prototype through validation to production.
  • Lead electrical integration and bring-up on prototype and production vehicles, and drive root-cause analysis of vehicle-level electrical and communication issues.
  • Establish electrical inspection and test procedures.

  Lifecycle & collaboration

  • Own your designs across the full product lifecycle — concept, prototype, validation, deployment, and field sustainment.
  • Introduce and maintain electrical design standards and design-review processes.
  • Support prototype builds, vehicle testing, and field deployment alongside the embedded-hardware, firmware, mechanical, and vehicle-engineering teams, including travel to customer sites.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in vehicle electrical systems — automotive, commercial vehicle, off-highway/industrial machinery, or robotic mobile platforms.
• Demonstrated ownership of an electrical architecture from concept through vehicle integration and validation.
• Deep knowledge of power distribution, grounding and bonding, shielding, circuit protection, and electrical interface design.
• Proven ability to work from a system architecture and written requirements, and to keep designs traceable to them.
• Hands-on harness design and prototyping: wiring diagrams, harness specifications, connector/terminal selection, and physical build and rework.
• Ability to analyze or reverse-engineer an existing vehicle electrical system and document it accurately.
• Vehicle-side troubleshooting with oscilloscope, multimeter, current probe, and CAN bus analyzer (e.g., CANoe / CANalyzer).
• Willingness to work on vehicles in the field, including travel to customer sites.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior OEM or Tier-1 experience on automotive, commercial-vehicle, off-highway, ground-support-equipment (GSE), or special-purpose vehicle platforms.
• Experience taking a vehicle program from prototype through volume production — design-for-manufacture and supplier/part qualification.
• Knowledge of EMC, ESD, and electrical-transient requirements; environmental standards such as ISO 16750, ISO 7637, and IP ingress ratings.
• Functional safety practice — ISO 26262, ISO 13849, or IEC 61508.
• ECU- and MCU-based embedded hardware familiarity.
• High-voltage / battery-electric powertrain platform experience.
• Experience introducing electrical design standards and review processes to a team.

Recruitment Process

Application Review - Hiring Manager Review - Tech Interview - CEO Interview - Reference Check - Offer    

(Please be aware that the recruitment processes & schedules may be changed depending on the job and/or other circumstances)