What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Electrical Engineer position at Parallel Systems?
We're looking for a talented Senior Electrical Engineer to help us architect the vehicle, design components, and test the system. In this role, you'll be working with fellow engineers and technicians to bring up new designs in our lab here in Downtown Los Angeles and run vehicles on our dedicated test track just outside the city. This is an opportunity to engage early with new designs, making a meaningful impact on the direction of the technology. Ideal candidates would build on strong first principles and engineering skills and have a proven record of owning substantial hardware designs and systems.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with multi-disciplinary engineering teams
- Derive architecture, meet and present technical direction, build consensus
- Execute on all phases of hardware development including requirements capture, prototyping, design validation, and manufacturing readiness
- Design system block diagrams, schematics, select components, and layout PCBAs
- Conduct worst-case circuit analysis and support functional safety qualification
- Support development of acceptance testing for electronics hardware
- Support vehicle integration and validation, debugging in the field
- Contribute to team culture of technical excellence by supporting recruiting efforts, providing engineering mentorship, conducting peer review of technical work, and staying current on state of the industry/technology
- Contribute to Electrical Engineering process definition, standards selection, and tool selection
Basic Qualifications
- BS in Electrical Engineering or similar Engineering discipline
- Strong first-principles and physics-based understanding of Engineering
- Experience in programming to support role (Python or similar)
- 5 years of experience in electronics hardware development or validation
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or similar Engineering discipline
- Experience with design and maintenance over full product lifecycles
- Experience in power electronics design including power converters, battery chargers, and motor controllers
- Experience with EV systems including battery management and HV packs
- Experience with analog and digital circuit design
- Experience with RF communications (LTE, GNSS, WiFi, Antennas, etc)
- Experience with firmware development