Staff Field Quality Engineer - Powertrain

Lucid Motors•Phoenix, AZ

7h•Onsite

About The Position

Lucid’s Field Quality team connects real-world customer and service data to engineering, manufacturing, supplier quality, and future product decisions. The Powertrain group focuses on electric drive units, traction motors, inverters, high-voltage interfaces, and supporting thermal and lubrication systems that shape vehicle performance, efficiency, refinement, and reliability. This team is unique in how it combines fleet analytics, vehicle diagnostics, component analysis, and cross-functional technical reviews to identify emerging issues and prevent recurrence across Lucid’s vehicle portfolio. The Staff Field Quality Engineer, Powertrain is a senior individual contributor role reporting to a Field Quality or Quality Engineering leader. This role exists to provide technical leadership for complex, high-impact customer and fleet concerns involving Lucid’s electric powertrain systems. In the first 12 months, this person will own critical investigations from issue definition through validated corrective action, improve investigation standards, and help reduce recurrence across the customer fleet. Success will be measured by evidence-based root cause closure, effective corrective actions, improved fleet performance, and stronger feedback loops into engineering, manufacturing, suppliers, diagnostics, and service. A strong candidate will have the opportunity to influence how Lucid detects, investigates, and prevents powertrain issues across current and future vehicle programs, with direct visibility to decisions that shape product quality and customer experience.

Requirements

8 years of experience in battery-electric vehicle powertrain engineering, field quality, product quality, reliability, validation engineering, manufacturing engineering, supplier quality, or a related technical discipline.
BS degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
Experience investigating and resolving customer-facing EV powertrain concerns using objective evidence, vehicle data, component analysis, and structured problem-solving methods.
Experience leading cross-functional technical investigations and driving corrective actions through validated implementation.
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.

Nice To Haves

MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Experience with premium, high-performance, or high-volume battery-electric vehicles.
Experience in EV powertrain domains such as traction motors, power electronics, electric drive units, embedded controls, high-voltage distribution, thermal management, lubrication, or vehicle diagnostics.
Experience with CAN, UDS, diagnostic trouble code analysis, data logging, signal evaluation, diagnostic development, or vehicle communication protocols.
Working knowledge of APQP, PPAP, DFMEA, PFMEA, SPC, control plans, change management, automotive launch processes, ISO 26262, Automotive SPICE, or high-voltage safety requirements.

Responsibilities

Lead complex field quality investigations involving electric drive units, traction motors, inverters, gearboxes, high-voltage interfaces, embedded controls, lubrication systems, cooling interfaces, and related vehicle systems, ensuring validated root causes and clear technical conclusions.
Set the technical standard for evidence-based root cause analysis and determine when investigation conclusions, test results, or corrective action plans are complete enough to support closure.
Define and drive permanent corrective and preventive actions across design, software, calibration, manufacturing, supplier quality, diagnostics, and service, ensuring interim containment does not replace long-term resolution.
Use warranty claims, diagnostic data, telematics, vehicle logs, service repairs, parts returns, and customer feedback to identify emerging issues, quantify fleet exposure, and determine escalation priorities.
Establish validation plans, acceptance criteria, test conditions, sample requirements, and monitoring periods that confirm corrective actions are effective and reduce recurrence.
Lead technical reviews with engineering, manufacturing, supplier quality, service, diagnostics, software, controls, calibration, and leadership teams to align decisions and remove barriers to resolution.
Convert field findings into improved engineering requirements, design standards, DFMEAs, DVP&R plans, manufacturing controls, diagnostic strategies, service procedures, and future program inputs.