Passive Safety Integration Engineer

About Us

We believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams! With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation.

This team is responsible for developing the key technologies and capabilities – such as EV platforms, batteries, e-motors, inverters, charging and recycling – to create ground-up breakthrough electric vehicles. By joining the best software, engineering, design and UX talent, you will be a part of creating innovative technologies and concepts that can be applied across our enterprise. Being on this team means building the future as our center of innovation and growth through electric and connected vehicles and services.

The Passive Safety Integration Engineer will be responsible for complete end-to-end integration of electrical passive safety components and participate in the system level design activities for the subsystem. You will be the point person for anything passive safety related on this platform and lead the bring up and crash activities in each of the vehicle builds. You will conceptualize, design, engineer, develop and support the launch of next-generation vehicle platforms for electric vehicles.

• Support the integration efforts for various electrical passive safety components, such as the restraints control module, pressure sensors, OCS, and buckle sensors.
• Use PLM systems to support electrical component design release for production.
• Design passive safety HIL environments and conduct validation tests to prove sub-system readiness prior to vehicle launch.
• End to end support of sub-system and vehicle level testing of various passive safety features to ensure the system is performing as designed.
• Work with the design and development engineers throughout the engineering organization to ensure passive safety components have appropriate packaging, requirements and interface definition to achieve the performance targets of the program.
• Develop detailed electrical device transmittals for various passive safety components and review/approve vehicle harness electrical schematics.
• Participate in crash safety, functional safety and failure avoidance analysis of complex electrical and software vehicle subsystems (HARA, FMEAs, etc.).

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Embedded Systems.
• Strong electrical and embedded systems engineering fundamentals.
• 2+ years of experience with vehicle network protocols such as CAN, LIN & automotive ethernet.
• Experience and working knowledge of systems development, vehicle architecture, vehicle safety, emerging safety system technologies, software/hardware tool development, restraints control module calibration, functional safety, network and diagnostics process.
• Experience designing and developing safety‑critical architectures.
• 2+ years of experience using embedded networking interface tools for automotive, aerospace or similar.
• Experience in designing and launching new embedded products from concept to production.

• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Embedded Systems.
• Proven technical expertise in vehicle safety systems design and understanding of the intricacies of the subsystem.
• Proficiency in fundamentals of vehicle architecture, embedded systems design, RTOSes and real‑time networking.
• Experience designing and evaluating functional safety concepts in the vehicle safety domain.
• Experience in leading product development from concept to deployment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• An eagerness to work cross‑functionally in a dynamic environment where you are part of a high‑performing team.
• A systems approach to design and development with the desire and curiosity to strive for exceptional delivery execution and continuous improvement.

This is a contract to hire position based out of Long Beach, CA.

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