Vehicle Diagnostic Engineer

Arc Boat Company

$125K — $150K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in embedded systems, controls, or vehicle electrical integration
  • BS in Electrical, Computer, or Automotive Engineering or equivalent experience
  • Ability to work on-call including off-hours and weekends
  • Strong hands-on experience with real-time, hardware-integrated systems
  • Deep familiarity with CAN-based architectures and debugging tools
  • Proven experience shipping complex hardware-integrated systems into production
  • Strong intuition for system-level tradeoffs

Responsibilities

  • Identify faults to determine the nature of issues (software, communication, configuration, or hardware)
  • Investigate vehicle-level issues from inception to root cause identification
  • Drive structured root cause investigations using data and experimentation
  • Contribute to validation strategies including testing and verification
  • Enhance system reliability and serviceability through product iterations
  • Participate in code and design reviews, solving technical challenges
  • Perform diagnostics and deep analysis of ECUs, sensors, and actuators
  • Reproduce complex vehicle issues and document findings extensively
  • Work with engineering and production teams to implement design and process improvements

Benefits

  • A collaborative, high-trust team environment
  • Opportunities for professional growth and learning
  • Hands-on work with innovative vehicle technologies
  • Impactful contributions to clean energy initiatives
  • Potential for travel to global engineering sites
Full Job Description
Who we're looking for

We're looking for someone who's fired up by our mission and ready to build. You'll thrive here if you adapt quickly, take ownership, and care about the details.

This is a full-time, on-site role at our Los Angeles headquarters. You will work on vehicle level debugging, system analysis, and root cause investigation. You'll report to Director, Field Service. and work closely with a lean, high-trust team where everyone's work matters.
Core responsibilities
  • Fault Isolation: Determining if an issue is a software logic bug, a communication protocol error, a configuration mismatch, or a physical hardware defect.
  • End-to-End Debugging: Own the investigation of vehicle-level issues from the first symptom through to the root cause hypothesis.
  • Driving structured root cause investigations using data, instrumentation, and experimentation
  • Contributing to validation strategies including bench testing, HIL, and production-level verification
  • Improving system reliability, diagnosability, and serviceability across product iterations
  • Contributing meaningfully to code reviews, design reviews, and technical problem solving within the controls team
  • Signal Diagnostics: Performing deep-dive timing analysis, plausibility checks, and state transition reviews of ECUs, sensors, and actuators.
  • Hands-on Testing: Reproduce complex issues on real vehicles, capturing logs (ECU, network, and system traces) to document findings.
  • Collaborating with engineering and production teams to implement improvements on boat designs, production methods, or service processes.
Basic qualifications
  • 5+ years of experience in embedded systems, controls, or vehicle electrical integration
  • BS in Electrical, Computer, or Automotive Engineering or equivalent experience.
  • Ability to work an on-call schedule that will include off-hours and weekends
  • Strong hands-on experience building and debugging real-time, hardware-integrated systems
  • Deep familiarity with CAN-based architectures and network-level debugging tools
  • Demonstrated experience shipping complex hardware-integrated systems into production
  • Strong intuition for system-level tradeoffs under real-world constraints
  • Ability to operate independently and drive execution without heavy oversight
  • Physical Proficiency: Comfortable working hands-on with vehicles in a shop or test environment.
  • Travel up to 20% for field investigations and global engineering sprints.
Bonus qualifications
  • Experience with EV or marine electrical architectures
  • Proficiency in C/C++, Rust, Python, or similar languages for embedded or automation development
  • Experience with Asana, Grafana, ion, slack and other web-based communication platforms
  • Experience with model-based design or control algorithm development
  • Familiarity with DFMEA, functional safety, or reliability engineering practices
  • Experience building automated validation or HIL infrastructure
  • Comfort working directly with oscilloscopes, data loggers, and ECU flashing tools
  • Comfortable pushing a fast but sustainable pace
  • Enthusiasm for boating and clean energy

Hope to hear from you soon!

The Crew at Arc

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