Senior Electrical Engineer (Automotive)

Location: Rancho Dominguez, California, United States

Base salary: $110,000–$130,000 per year, dependent on experience, knowledge, and interview performance.

Company

Motivo is a project-based engineering company delivering mechanical and electrical system design and prototype builds across mobility and automotive, aerospace, robotics, and clean energy markets.

What you will do

• Design and develop electrical and electro-mechanical systems for multiple concurrent projects.
• Develop and edit top-level system architectures, technical drawings, component designs, and interface documentation.
• Design embedded electronics, custom PCBs, motor controllers, power supplies, inverters, converters, and related power electronics.
• Perform electrical testing, debugging, fabrication, assembly, and validation using industry-standard tools.
• Work on high-performance and automotive vehicle systems, including components designed for extreme temperature, shock, and vibration.
• Present results and recommendations to internal and external customers and mentor less experienced colleagues, with an approximately 80% hands-on engineering and 20% mentoring work split.

Requirements

• Six or more years of professional engineering experience.
• Direct technical involvement in multiple electro-mechanical projects with embedded electronics, including a deep understanding of motion and control systems theory and physics.
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to present results and recommendations to internal and external customers.
• Strong ability to mentor less experienced colleagues and handle concurrent fast-paced projects with minimal direction.
• Design experience with motors, motor controllers, power supplies, inverters, converters, and/or power electronics.
• Professional embedded electronics design experience with microcontrollers, DSPs, programmable logic devices such as FPGA or CPLD, memory, high-speed signaling, MEMS sensors, and related components.
• Programming experience, especially with embedded C, real-time operating systems, and/or Matlab Simulink Coder.
• Familiarity with CAN, USB, SPI, I2C, Ethernet, and other communication protocols.
• Electrical test and debug experience using oscilloscopes, in-circuit debugging, digital multimeters, and similar tools.
• Custom PCB design experience spanning schematic entry, board layout, fabrication, assembly, and testing.
• Experience with high-performance vehicles, including electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, race vehicles, Solar Car, or Formula SAE, and their design processes and components.
• Experience designing and fabricating for automotive environments involving extreme temperature, shock, and vibration.
• Experience with various sensor types and technologies, battery chemistries, and battery management systems.
• Experience with R&D, SBIR, venture capital, or similarly funded projects and work efforts.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, tight-knit, multidisciplinary engineering team.
• Work on varied and challenging projects with opportunities for professional growth.
• High-quality insurance and a 401(k) match.
• Generous vacation time and a Monday–Thursday 4/10 work week.
• Profit-sharing bonuses tied to overall company performance, with transparency into company numbers.