Vehicle Diagnostic Engineer
Arc Boat Company•Torrance, CA
•Onsite
About The Position
Arc is building 100% electric boats from the ground up, aiming to create a better boating experience that is quicker, quieter, easier to maintain, and better for the environment. This role involves vehicle-level debugging, system analysis, and root cause investigation. The position is a full-time, on-site role at the Los Angeles headquarters, reporting to the Director, Field Service. The successful candidate will work closely with a lean, high-trust team where everyone's work is valued.
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.
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.
Benefits
- Salary P2: $125,000/year; P3: $150,000
- Ownership – Equity in Arc
- 99% employer-paid health coverage – Medical, dental, and vision
- Arc Water Fund – Annual stipend to get out on the water, however you choose
- Captain Training – Get certified to take the boat out with friends and family
- 401(k) access – Plan your future
- Semi-annual bonuses – Tied to your impact, not just your tenure
- Daily team lunches, snacks, and good coffee while onsite
- Parental leave – Because family comes first
- Boat days – Yes, we actually go out on the water. A lot.
- A chance to define the future of boating
- The ability to drive positive environmental change through your work
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
