Staff Field Quality Engineer Vehicle

About the Team

The Field Quality Engineering team connects real-world vehicle performance to engineering action across Lucids vehicle portfolio. The team investigates complex customer concerns identifies systemic risks and drives corrective and preventive actions that improve reliability safety serviceability and customer experience. What makes this team unique is its vehicle-level perspective: it works across hardware software manufacturing service supplier quality and product engineering to resolve issues that do not fit cleanly within one subsystem. The team operates with technical rigor urgency and accountability using objective data to turn field learning into stronger products and processes.

About the Role

As aStaff Field Quality Engineer Vehicle you will serve as a senior individual contributor within the Field Quality Engineering organization and report to the Field Quality Engineering leader. This role exists to lead investigation and resolution of the most complex vehicle-level issues especially when the responsible system failure mode or corrective path is unclear. You will own high-priority cross-functional investigations from technical triage through root cause corrective action validation and verified closure.

In the first 12 months success will be measured by your ability to reduce investigation cycle time resolve high-risk vehicle concerns prevent repeat failures and raise the technical standard for Field Quality investigations across commodities. This role offers direct influence on vehicle architecture diagnostics service strategy validation plans and future product improvements through decisions grounded in field data. A strong candidate will gain broad vehicle-level ownership at the intersection of customer experience engineering decision-making and product reliability.

What You Own

• Vehicle-Level Authority:Lead technical decision-making for complex customer concerns that cross vehicle systems have unclear ownership or require expertise beyond a single commodity.

• Root Cause Governance:Define investigation strategy evidence standards and root cause criteria to ensure conclusions are reproducible data-supported and actionable.

• Corrective Action Strategy:Direct permanent corrective and preventive actions across product design software calibration manufacturing suppliers diagnostics and service procedures.

• Fleet Risk Assessment:Quantify affected populations severity recurrence risk warranty exposure and customer impact to prioritize escalations and guide business decisions.

• Cross-Functional Alignment:Coordinate Product Engineering Systems Engineering Software Manufacturing Supplier Quality Reliability Service Diagnostics Warranty Engineering and Field Operations to drive accountable issue resolution.

• Validation Standards:Establish objective validation plans acceptance criteria sample requirements monitoring periods and post-implementation checks to confirm corrective action effectiveness.

• Technical Mentorship:Mentor Field Quality Engineers in diagnostics systems thinking failure analysis statistical problem-solving and clear technical communication.

What You Bring

• 10 years of experience in automotive field quality vehicle integration systems engineering product engineering reliability vehicle diagnostics validation manufacturing quality or a related technical discipline.

• Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering Automotive Engineering Mechatronics Engineering Systems Engineering Computer Engineering or a related technical field.

• Experience investigating and resolving complex customer-facing vehicle issues across multiple systems or commodities.

• Experience analyzing vehicle data such as diagnostic trouble codes CAN data telematics vehicle logs software traces service records warranty claims test results or returned components.

• Ability to read write speak and understand English sufficiently to perform the essential duties of the position including understanding work instructions safety procedures and job-related communications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering Automotive Engineering Mechatronics Engineering Systems Engineering Computer Engineering or a related technical field.

• Experience with premium high-performance or high-volume battery-electric vehicles.

• Experience serving as a vehicle integration engineer systems engineer technical specialist technical lead or senior field quality authority.

• Working knowledge of hardware-software interactions network communication vehicle state management fault handling degraded operating modes and over-the-air software updates.

• Familiarity with CAN LIN Automotive Ethernet UDS DTC analysis data logging software trace evaluation and automotive diagnostic tools.

• Experience with APQP PPAP DFMEA system FMEA PFMEA SPC control plans engineering change management automotive product launch ISO 26262 ISO/SAE 21434 or Automotive SPICE.

Physical Requirements

• Standing and Walking:Ability to stand and walk for extended periods in engineering service manufacturing or vehicle evaluation environments.

• Manual Dexterity:Frequent use of hands for handling tools components diagnostic equipment and computer-based analysis tools.

• Lifting and Carrying:Ability to lift carry push or pull items weighing up to 50 lbs. with or without reasonable accommodation.

• Reaching and Bending:Ability to reach bend twist squat and access vehicle areas during inspections testing and troubleshooting.

• PPE Expectations:Must wear required PPE including safety shoes gloves eye protection hearing protection and other equipment required by company safety standards.

Work Requirement

This role is fully onsite at our Arizona Manufacturing Facilities and Offices (Casa Grande). Daily in-person presence isrequired.

Lucid is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type as protected by federal state or local laws.