Engineering Technician – Powertrain Systems
Overview
Support the development of advanced electric and autonomous mobility systems as an Engineering Technician on a powertrain systems team. This hands-on role focuses on preparing, troubleshooting, and maintaining electrical testing hardware, EV wire harnesses, power electronics, and battery-testing equipment in a fast-paced engineering laboratory.
You will work closely with design engineers to develop effective test systems, support embedded hardware updates, maintain lab readiness, and perform servicing and repair activities safely and methodically. This is an opportunity for a technically skilled professional who is passionate about electric vehicles, electrical systems development, and bringing innovative mobility technologies from development into production.
Required Skills
- Experience preparing, building, and troubleshooting electrical testing hardware to the component level.
- Ability to perform approved high-voltage enable and disable procedures.
- Hands-on experience making, updating, repairing, and fabricating wire harnesses for electric vehicles or automotive systems.
- Ability to solder, crimp, strip, and fabricate harnesses.
- Ability to read wire harness drawings, schematics, circuit lists, product documentation, and work instructions.
- Understanding of basic diagnostic processes.
- Experience maintaining and repairing power electronics and low-voltage PCBA circuits.
- Experience with electric drive motors, high-voltage batteries, and high-voltage cabling.
- Experience using a variety of test and measurement equipment, such as:
- Bipolar power supplies, electronic loads, and DAQ systems
- AC and DC hookup, function, and compliance equipment
- Oscilloscopes and digital multimeters
- Rogowski and Hall sensors
- Load cells, strain gauges, accelerometers, and LVDTs
- Pressure transducers
- Thermocouples, thermocouple welding equipment, RTDs, and thermistors
- Arbin systems
- RF/EMF meters
- Ability to support laboratory readiness by maintaining inventory, organized workspaces, tools, and test and measurement equipment.
- Ability to perform firmware updates on embedded hardware systems in laboratory and field environments.
- Ability to carry out servicing and repair operations safely and methodically after appropriate training.
- High-voltage and low-voltage safety training.
- Passion for electric mobility, autonomous mobility, and electrical systems development.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience with manual metal fabrication tools and processes, including milling, lathe work, drilling, punching, pressing, bandsawing, shearing, or welding.
- Familiarity with TIG and MIG welding.
- Experience with 3D design tools such as SolidWorks, Fusion 360, AutoCAD, or CATIA.
- Through-hole and SMA soldering or rework experience.
- Exposure to EMI/EMC testing techniques.
- IPC/WHMA-A-620 Certified Standards Expert certification.
- High-voltage certification or additional high-voltage training.
- Soldering certification.
- Experience supporting battery testing, teardown, and analysis.
- Experience collaborating with design engineers to develop test systems tailored to engineering needs.
Preferred Education and Experience
- Associate degree or trade school certificate in mechatronics, electronics, automotive engineering, electrical engineering technology, or another relevant field; equivalent experience may be considered.
- Four or more years of experience related to automotive wire harnesses, electric vehicle systems, power electronics, or a similar technical discipline.
Other Requirements
- Work arrangement: Onsite in Foster City, California.
- Travel: Local and domestic travel may be required occasionally.
- Employment type: W2 only.
- Assignment length: Approximately six months.
- Ability to work safely in an engineering laboratory and follow applicable high-voltage, low-voltage, and equipment-safety procedures.
