Harness Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and integration of custom wire harnesses and/or flexible printed circuits (FPC).
• Build and validate prototypes through hands-on bring-up, debugging, characterization, and iterative refinement.
• Develop test methodologies and characterization infrastructure for wire harness performance, reliability, durability, and failure analysis.
• Analyze test data to identify limitations, failure modes, and opportunities for design improvement.
• Collaborate with manufacturing and supplier partners to transition designs from prototype to scalable production-ready assemblies.
• Contribute to wire harness sourcing strategy, vendor qualification, prototype builds, and supply-chain development.
• Document designs, interfaces, validation results, and engineering decisions to support long-term maintainability and production readiness.
• Help establish engineering standards, integration practices, and development workflows for future robotic platforms.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience designing and scaling custom wire harnesses and/or flexible printed circuits.
• Strong understanding of connector types across all size ranges and wire types.
• Proficiency with CAD and PLM tools, such as NX and Teamcenter, or equivalent systems.
• Experience developing validation plans, reliability testing, and failure analysis workflows.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience scaling hardware systems from prototype through EVT/DVT/PVT and into production.
• Strong intuition for designing high-performance electromechanical systems and understanding the tradeoffs between performance, robustness, manufacturability, and cost.
• Highly hands-on with building, debugging, instrumenting, and testing hardware.
• Ability to move fluidly between first-principles analysis, rapid prototyping, and production-oriented engineering decisions.
• Comfortable working in fast-moving environments with evolving requirements and aggressive technical goals.
• Strong sense of ownership and proactively drive cross-functional alignment.
• Clear communication across disciplines and effective collaboration with research, controls, manufacturing, and operations teams.
• Motivated by enabling the next generation of intelligent robotic systems through differentiated hardware capabilities.