Hardware Systems Engineer Job Coquitlam area,BC Canada,Engineering

About The Position

Meet the Smart Safety Company

At Safe Fleet our name says it all. We make fleet vehicles – and everyone in and around them – safer. Our fleet safety platform brings together best-in-class products, ground-breaking technology, and a 100-year history of fleet know-how and innovation to solve the world’s biggest fleet safety problems.

Our core value is safety. Without safety first, efficiency and productivity are not possible. This is true for our products, our culture, and our relationship with our community. Our vision is to reduce preventable deaths and injuries in and around fleet vehicles with a goal of ZERO accidents.

We are re-defining what safety means for fleets of every type – from school buses to waste collection trucks, firefighting to utility vehicles, police cruisers to delivery vans.

Whether you work in our Charlotte plant to build life-saving stop arms for school buses, or design advanced camera vision products in our Vancouver office, forge valves and high-quality nozzles to fight fires, or dream up new ways to protect fleet operators in our Corporate HQ in Kansas City, you’ll contribute to our goal to keep everyone safe.

We are a fast-growing manufacturing, service, and technology company with over 1700 employees in over 15 locations across Canada and the US. We’re looking for motivated self-starters with innovative thinking to join our team and help us achieve our growth and performance goals. Sound like you?

Job Summary

The Hardware Systems Engineer will play a key role in unifying our diverse portfolio of hardware products—including cameras, DVRs, mirrorless camera systems, and telematics devices—into a cohesive and dependable customer experience. This role is responsible for understanding how each device operates, defining and validating the interfaces between them, and ensuring that all devices seamlessly integrate from both a hardware and embedded software perspective.

Working cross functionally with hardware engineering, embedded firmware, product management, and manufacturing teams, the Hardware Systems Engineer will lead system level design, troubleshoot interoperability issues, and guide the successful integration of new hardware platforms into our broader ecosystem. The ideal candidate brings strong technical depth in embedded systems, excellent problem solving skills, and a passion for building robust, user centric hardware solutions.

Responsibilities:

Communicate effectively across Product, Project, Hardware Engineering, and Embedded Software teams to align goals, clarify technical requirements, and drive the seamless integration of hardware platforms

Review product requirements and translate into design requirements to be implemented by overseas partners. Including guidance on optical, electrical, and mechanical performance.

Assist in the design and development being done by remote teams by providing clearly written design specifications.

Test prototypes to verify operation and design compliance:
Environmental, electrical, and optical testing (Thermal, Humidity, vibration, image quality, etc.)

Champion portfolio wide performance improvements by analyzing how hardware subsystems and vendor supplied components interact, highlighting opportunities to expand hardware reuse across multiple products.

Support manufacturing, assembly, and quality teams with hardware-related issues.

Salary Range: $80,000 - $100,000/yr CAD

The final offer will be determined based on a combination of factors including skills, experience, and alignment with the role’s responsibilities.

Candidates at the lower end of the range will meet the core qualifications and demonstrate strong potential to grow within the role.

Mid-range offers reflect a solid match with the role’s technical and collaborative requirements.

Offers at the top of the range are reserved for candidates who bring exceptional qualifications, specialized expertise, or unique value that significantly exceeds the baseline expectations

At Safe Fleet, we are an equal opportunity employer that is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone is valued and respected. We embrace diversity and do not…


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