E/E Architecture & Electrical Systems Engineer

Bot Auto; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Bot Auto is hiring a Junior E/E Architecture & Electrical Systems Engineer in Houston, TX. The role involves designing and validating production-intent vehicle electrical/electronic architectures for autonomous and software-defined trucks.

You will contribute to in-vehicle network topology, ECU integration, pinout definition, harness design, power distribution, safety analyses, and system verification under senior engineers’ guidance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering field with hands-on automotive in-vehicle network experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge of centralized, domain, or zonal E/E architectures and high-performance compute integration.
• Experience with CAN/CAN-FD and Automotive Ethernet, including topology and diagnostics.
• Familiarity with ISO 26262 processes and safety-related design reviews.

Responsibilities

• Support E/E architecture lifecycle from concept through design, integration, validation, and field support.
• Define scalable architectures spanning centralized compute, domain controllers, gateways, and ECUs.
• Create architecture artifacts: block diagrams, interface documents, network matrices, pinouts.
• Participate in trade studies on bandwidth, latency, safety, cybersecurity, and cost.
• Assist with pinouts, harness integration, and wiring design across vehicle platforms.

Skills

E/E architecture

CAN/CAN-FD

Automotive Ethernet

FMEA/DFMEA

ISO 26262

HIL testing

System integration

Education

Bachelor's or advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Mechatronics

Tools

CANoe/CANalyzer

Wireshark

Oscilloscopes

Power analyzers

HIL/bench systems

Job description

E/E Architecture & Electrical Systems Engineer

Houston, TX

Company Introduction

At Bot Auto, we build autonomous trucks to transform the way goods are transported and improve the quality of life for communities worldwide. With a start-up spirit yet long-established experience, Bot Auto has the most seasoned team that has delivered several world’s first and world’s only. Together, we share vision, we see and build miracles and we drive the future of transportation. Join us and turn your dream into something RUNNING.

Position Overview

We are seeking a Junior E/E Architecture & Electrical Systems Engineer to support the design, integration, and validation of production-intent vehicle electrical/electronic architectures for autonomous and software-defined vehicles. This engineer will contribute to in-vehicle network topology, ECU and centralized-compute integration, pinout definition, wiring harness design, power distribution, safety analysis, and system verification under the guidance of senior engineers. Hands-on experience contributing to automotive-grade in-vehicle network architecture design is required.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the vehicle E/E architecture lifecycle from concept and requirements through detailed design, integration, validation, production release, and field support.
• Assist with defining and documenting scalable logical and physical architectures spanning centralized computers, domain and zonal controllers, gateways, edge ECUs, sensors, actuators, and power distribution.
• Create and maintain architecture artifacts under guidance, including block diagrams, functional allocation, interface control documents, network matrices, connector definitions, and pinouts.
• Contribute to trade studies covering bandwidth, latency, time synchronization, redundancy, fault tolerance, safety, cybersecurity, power, thermal limits, harness weight, cost, and scalability.

Electrical Integration & Harness Engineering:Pinout, Harness, and Platform Integration:

• Assist with defining and maintaining ECU, sensor, actuator, and compute-platform pinouts, including signal types, voltage levels, current limits, wake/sleep behavior, power, grounds, and shielding requirements.
• Support the design and review of low-voltage harnesses, schematics, connectors, wire gauges, splices, fusing, routing, grounding, shielding, serviceability, and manufacturing constraints.
• Assist with integrating ECUs, gateways, sensors, actuators, power-distribution modules, and high-performance vehicle computers; support hardware bring-up and interface validation.
• Work with suppliers and internal hardware, software, mechanical, safety, manufacturing, and vehicle-integration teams to align electrical interfaces and network requirements.
• Architecture Tools and Configuration Management: Maintain architecture models, schematics, BOMs, DBC/ARXML/LDF files, interface baselines, variants, and change traceability.

Safety, Reliability & Validation:

• Participate in system FMEA/DFMEA and fault-tree analyses; help identify failure modes, effects, detection mechanisms, design mitigations, safe states, and verification evidence.
• Support the definition and execution of network and electrical integration tests for bandwidth, latency, bus load, time sync, power modes, diagnostics, fault injection, EMC, HIL, bench, and vehicle operation.
• Assist with diagnosing cross-domain electrical, communication, and hardware/software issues using logs, network traces, measurements, and structured root-cause analysis; help drive defects to verified closure.

Collaboration and Technical Delivery:

• Work with autonomy, controls, software, hardware, cybersecurity, safety, suppliers, and platform partners to implement architecture decisions, interfaces, dependencies, and changes.
• Participate in design and release-readiness reviews; help maintain documentation, verification evidence, manufacturing and service inputs, and clear tracking of residual risks.

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related field.
• Required: Hands-on experience contributing to automotive-grade in-vehicle network architecture design through industry experience, an internship, co-op, or an equivalent vehicle-platform project.
• Working knowledge of centralized, domain-based, or zonal E/E architectures, including function allocation, gateways, ECUs, and high-performance-compute integration.
• Hands-on knowledge of CAN and CAN-FD, with familiarity with LIN and Automotive Ethernet concepts such as topology, bandwidth, latency, diagnostics, and communication matrices.
• Practical experience supporting pinout definition for power, ground, analog, digital, high-speed, wake, reset, diagnostics, and safety-related signals.
• Hands-on exposure to wiring diagrams, harness schematics, connectors, wire sizing, grounding, shielding, power distribution, and design for manufacturing.
• Basic working knowledge of UDS, DoIP, SOME/IP, DDS, gPTP/IEEE 802.1AS, or similar diagnostic, middleware, and time-synchronization technologies.
• Exposure to FMEA/DFMEA, fault-tree analysis, design risk assessment, or verification planning in an ISO 26262-oriented process.
• Familiarity with tools such as CANoe/CANalyzer, Wireshark, oscilloscopes, logic and power analyzers, and HIL or bench systems.
• Ability to work with requirements, interfaces, configuration records, and engineering changes, with sound problem-solving, documentation, and cross-functional communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to integrating NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor or Orin, or comparable platforms such as Snapdragon Ride, Renesas R-Car, or TI Jacinto.
• Familiarity with GMSL, FPD-Link, PCIe, MIPI CSI, multi-gigabit Automotive Ethernet, or synchronized sensor networks.
• Exposure to zonal architectures, Ethernet TSN, service-oriented systems, fail-operational design, or redundant power and network paths.
• Familiarity with PREEvision, SystemWeaver, Capital, Zuken E3, CATIA Electrical, IBM DOORS, or equivalent tools.
• Internship, co-op, academic, or early-career OEM/Tier-1 experience supporting vehicle electrical systems from prototype through validation.
• Exposure to ISO 21434, Automotive SPICE, DVP&R, EMC/EMI, APQP/PPAP, or Python/CAPL test automation.

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