Senior Electrical Harness Engineer

As a Senior Low Voltage Distribution Engineer at Zoox, you’ll play a key role in designing one of the most advanced wiring harness systems ever built into a vehicle. Working within the highly collaborative Electrical Systems Team, you’ll help ensure seamless communication between controllers, sensors, and subsystems, critical for the safe and reliable operation of our autonomous vehicles. You’ll shape design guidelines, implement best practices, and drive process improvements across the full development lifecycle. This is an opportunity to help define the future of mobility and bring Zoox’s vision for autonomous transportation to life.

In this role, you will:

• Own the end-to-end design of complex low-voltage and high-speed wiring harnesses using CATIA V5/V6, ensuring quality, compliance, and manufacturability.

• Define and manage processes for device transmittals, schematics, and 3D harness routing across the product lifecycle.

• Develop best practices and provide technical guidance to junior engineers to continuously improve harness design methodologies.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define low-voltage distribution system requirements, endpoints and interfaces

• Lead supplier engagements and drive continuous improvement within the electrical engineering function

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Engineering or equivalent experience in automotive or aerospace experience

• 15 years of engineering experience, 2+ years of people management experience

• Experience with automotive EE system-level communication (CAN, LIN) and power distribution architectures

• Demonstrated release of hardware products with firmware/software dependencies

• Hardware and software integration experience

Bonus Qualifications

• Understanding of signal integrity (SI) and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC/EMI) principles 

• Experience with Capital/Mentor Graphics Topology, HarnessXC Bridging.

• Experience with ISO26262, EE HW reliability life calculations, and system FMEA analysis

• Experience with high-speed automotive electronics communication protocols (GMSL, automotive ethernet, A2B)