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Quality Engineer, Electrical

Harbinger Motors Inc.
9 hours ago
On-site
Garden Grove, United States
$120,000 - $180,000 USD yearly
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About Harbinger Harbinger is an American commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbinger's best-in-class team of EV, battery, and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to bring a first-of-its-kind EV platform to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs and Hybrids. Harbinger: Familiar Form, Revolutionary Foundation. Job Overview: We are looking for a Quality Engineer (Electrical) with broad responsibilities across electrical and electronic assemblies. You will be responsible for ensuring the quality of electrical architecture, control systems, and electronic components throughout their life cycle. This role involves collaborating with suppliers, product designers, and production teams to establish and maintain quality standards, troubleshoot complex electrical issues, and drive continuous improvement. The Electrical Quality Engineer will act as a liaison between the company's cross-functional engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain teams. Responsibilities include defining electrical quality standards, performing root cause analysis on electrical and electronic failures, defining inspection standards, end-of-line test controls, quality gates, and determining corrective actions. A successful Electrical Quality Engineer should have excellent analytical and electrical troubleshooting skills and be able to ensure that processes and products are consistently improved. What You'll Do: Monitor electrical and electronic quality performance metrics, proactively identifying and escalating emerging high-impact issues using process, end-of-line test, and warranty data for early resolution. Drive timely root cause analysis and resolution by engaging and holding cross-functional teams accountable with a data-driven approach to ensure root cause is identified and resolved (e.g., electrical noise, signal integrity loss, component failure, assembly defects). Implement continuous improvement by driving lessons learned into relevant electrical design and manufacturing processes. Develop and track data-driven metrics for issue monitoring, electrical yields, and corrective action effectiveness. Create innovative tools and processes to enhance efficiency, electrical test coverage, and scalability across production. Continuously develop electrical quality standards, quality control systems, and manufacturing and supplier quality protocols for Harbinger's electrical harnesses, power distribution units, controllers, and PCBAs. Perform thorough inspection and testing of materials, equipment, processes, and products (including Hi-Pot testing, continuity, resistance, and functional electrical testing) to ensure meticulous compliance with specifications. Support the assembly team with electrical distribution units, high/low-voltage wiring harnesses, controllers, and electrical test equipment buyoff, conducting technical and statistical investigations concerning quality issues, test methods, and equipment. Formulate effective corrective actions, solutions, and enhancements for supplier, production, and product-related challenges specific to vehicle electrical systems. Participate in design reviews (DFMEA/PFMEA) alongside design engineering and manufacturing teams to mitigate manufacturing, wiring routing, grounding, and assembly risks linked to electrical components. Lead and instruct interdisciplinary efforts to conduct Root Cause analysis (8D, 5-Why) for both internal and external electrical and electronic products, ensuring timely responses and validation of corrective actions to prevent non-conformances. Lead MRB (Material Review Board) meetings and act as a quality representative within the engineering change control board for vehicle electrical systems and electronic sub-assemblies. Who You Are: You are a hands-on engineer that loves to solve complex technical problems. You have a bias for action and continuous improvement. You are energetic, passionate about e…

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