Vehicle Diagnostic Engineer

Arc Boat Company•Torrance, CA

16h•$125,000 - $150,000•Onsite

About The Position

Arc is building 100% electric boats from the ground up, rethinking every detail from propulsion and powertrain to software and ownership. We are looking for someone who is fired up by our mission and ready to build. You will 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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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

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.