Powertrain Test Engineer

Harbinger Motors

Job Location:

Garden Grove, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 100000 - 140000

Posted on: 5 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Harbinger

Harbinger is an American commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbingers best-in-class team of EV battery and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to bring a first-of-its-kind EV platform to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs and Hybrids. Harbinger: Familiar Form Revolutionary Foundation.

Job Overview

Based out of our Garden Grove headquarters the Powertrain Test Engineer is responsible for the development maintenance and improvement of the Powertrain test systems. You will develop in-house test benches for our electric drive unit and components to be used for current product validation new product development and failure reproduction. Ideal candidates will be able to create and integrate automation solutions for testing and data acquisition.

What Youll Do:

Design and deploy electromechanical test benches for electric drive units and its components through software and hands-on approaches.
Develop and maintain test standards design and develop test equipment or procuring and handling purchased test capital equipment to support test readiness.
Leverage data analysis and existing tools to reproduce and characterize failures.
Design and architect electric motor and electric drive unit dynamometers and HIL systems.
Support validation of automated test systems.

Who You Are:

7 years of relevant industry experience with emphasis on hardware validation and integration testing
Experience working with NI hardware (PXIe-RT cRIO and cDAQ) and coding with real-time and FPGA modules
Ability to use and write drivers for NI-XNET (CAN and LIN) and NI-VISA Serial (RS232 RS485) and TCP/IP (Modbus SCPI FTP and TCP/IP)
Experience in test data analysis and setting up data processing streams in Matlab Python or similar programming.
Familiarity with electronics test equipment such as power supplies electronic loads oscilloscope power analyzers data acquisition and measurement sensors.
Experience with 3D CAD modeling software.

Nice to Have:

NI LabVIEW certification: CLD minimum. CLA preferred.
5 years experience in automotive Powertrain and/or electric motor development and validation.
Solid understanding of product development DFMEA DVP&R and product requirements.

Key Benefits & Perks:

Comprehensive Health Dental & Vision (HDV) 100% employee covered
Early-stage Stock Options
Robust Retirement Savings (401k HSA FSA)
Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) & Parental Leave
Annual Vacation Bonus
Wellness & Fertility Benefits
Cell Phone Stipend
Complimentary Meals & Stocked Kitchens

California Pay Range

$100000 - $140000 USD

Equal Opportunity

Harbinger is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal state and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion national origin ancestry sex sexual orientation gender gender expression gender identity genetic information or characteristics physical or mental disability marital/domestic partner status age military/veteran status medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Required Experience:

About HarbingerHarbinger is an American commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbingers best-in-class team of EV battery and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to bring a first-of-its-kind EV platform to support the...