Senior Vehicle Systems Engineer

• Support component design and fabrication, including sheet metal, aluminum, composites, and advanced 3D-printed parts.
• Develop CAD models for brackets, mounts, and housings to support sensors, ECUs, and harnesses.
• Ensure designs meet structural integrity, crashworthiness, and manufacturability standards.
• Maintain system configuration baselines, interface definitions, and integration requirements for vehicle builds.
• Translate evolving AV architecture needs into actionable build requirements, dependencies, and timing constraints.
• Interface with CAD‑based architecture teams to ensure sensor placement strategies, mounting provisions, and harness routing constraints are reflected in build plans.
• Support hardware ordering for upcoming builds, including sensors, 3Dprints, harnessing, brackets, and fabricated components.
• Track lead times, supplier commitments, delivery status, and material risks to ensure critical components are in hand before build execution.
• Support BOM updates, part revisions, alternates, and substitutions as designs mature.
• Ensure integration plans reflect design intent for sensor housings, brackets, mounts, and harness supports, including considerations for waterproofing, EMI shielding, thermal management, vibration isolation, and serviceability.
• Provide input on manufacturability, structural requirements, routing constraints, and component accessibility.
• Prepare end‑to‑end hardware rollout plans, aligning engineering teams, prototype build shops, integration labs, and field readiness groups.
• Coordinate installation sequencing to ensure correct fitment, interface alignment, and version compatibility.
• Maintain detailed revision control for hardware, ensuring each vehicle is built to the correct configuration baseline.
• Support vehicle checkout processes to validate build quality, system alignment, and readiness for engineering and safety requirements.
• Develop installation guides, retrofit instructions, and field update packages for existing prototype assets.
• Ensure fielded vehicles remain aligned with current configurations, hardware revisions, and quality standards.
• Support triage of hardware issues uncovered during testing—identifying root causes and driving corrective actions to closure.
• Communicate build status, hardware risks, dependencies, and material readiness to program leadership and cross‑functional partners.
• Coordinate with perception and software teams where sensor coverage, placement, or architecture dependencies impact build execution.
• Capture lessons learned from each build cycle and feed them back into system design guidance, procurement planning, configuration standards, and build workflows.
• Identify opportunities to improve documentation workflows, material tracking systems, and build process efficiency.

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in system design, fabrication, and build execution.
• Proven expertise in CAD-based design for sensor placement, harness routing, and component fabrication.
• Deep knowledge of manufacturing processes, materials engineering, and harness design.
• Strong cross functional communication skills.

• DFSS Black Belt certification
• Master’s degree in a relevant engineering or technical field.
• Hands-on experience with vehicle prototyping, CAD-driven sensor integration, and deployment.

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