Electrical Systems Lead Engineer
About The Position
The Staff Electrical Engineer will lead the design, development, validation, and integration of electrical power systems for transport refrigeration units (TRUs) used in heavy-duty trucks, trailers, and commercial vehicle applications. The role requires expertise in automotive and heavy-truck electrical architectures, power distribution, electrical safety, and integration of power electronics converters. The engineer serves as a technical leader, guiding system architecture decisions from concept through production and ensuring compliance with reliability, safety, regulatory, and customer requirements. The position supports Carrier’s transport refrigeration business.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
- 8+ years of electrical engineering experience.
- 5+ years designing automotive, commercial vehicle, or heavy-truck electrical systems.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with transport refrigeration systems, auxiliary power units, mobile HVAC systems, or electrified vehicle systems.
- Experience with 12V, 24V, and high-voltage DC electrical systems.
- Experience with battery technology and power management systems.
- Experience with CAN communication networks.
- Experience with electrical protection strategies and fault management.
- Experience with wiring harness and connector system design.
- Experience with EMC/EMI design and mitigation.
- Experience with electrical diagnostics and troubleshooting.
Responsibilities
- Lead development of transport refrigeration electrical system architectures.
- Design low- and high-voltage electrical power distribution systems.
- Define electrical interfaces between refrigeration units, battery systems, alternators and charging systems, inverters and converters, controllers, and telematics devices.
- Develop wiring harnesses, power distribution modules, and control panels.
- Create electrical schematics, system block diagrams, and interface control documents.
- Lead electrical design activities through concept, prototype, validation, and launch.
- Perform electrical load analysis, power budget calculations, and fault analysis.
- Evaluate and select electrical components, sensors, relays, contactors, connectors, and protection devices.
- Drive design-for-manufacturing and design-for-serviceability improvements.
- Develop and execute electrical validation plans.
- Support EMC/EMI, environmental, durability, and reliability testing.
- Ensure compliance with applicable standards and regulations.
- Investigate and resolve field quality issues using root cause analysis methodologies.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Wellness incentives
- Retirement benefits
- Paid vacation days, up to 15 days
- Paid sick days, up to 5 days
- Paid personal leave, up to 5 days
- Paid holidays, up to 13 days
- Birth and adoption leave
- Parental leave
- Family and medical leave
- Bereavement leave
- Jury duty leave
- Military leave
- Purchased vacation
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Life insurance
- Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Health Care Spending Account
- Dependent Care Spending Account
- Tuition assistance
- Short-term cash incentives, subject to plan requirements
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
