Electronics Hardware Engineer - EV/Hybrid Innovator

Polluxa, Inc.; Long Beach (CA); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Ford’s EVDD team in Long Beach is hiring a hardware engineer focused on electrical design and validation for electric vehicle systems. You’ll translate requirements into technical specs, capture schematics, select components, and drive design releases.

You’ll work with PCB and mechanical teams to ensure robust layouts and production readiness. You’ll perform worst‑case and thermal analyses, run RCCA investigations, and lead hardware bring‑up and fault analysis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Hands‑on schematic capture and circuit analysis.
• Experience with RCCA/8D problem solving.
• Experience with electric/electronic systems and standard lab equipment.

Responsibilities

• Capture requirements and translate into technical specifications.
• Perform schematic capture, component selection and design release.
• Research concepts and bring them to production readiness.
• Perform worst-case design calculations and end-of-life estimation.
• Collaborate with PCB and mechanical teams to review layouts.
• Understand and implement power electronic topologies.
• Support design validation and end-of-line tests.
• Conduct failure analysis and corrective actions.
• Hands-on hardware bring-up, troubleshooting, and characterization.

Skills

Schematic capture

Circuit simulation

Failure investigations

RCCA

Power electronics

Hardware bring-up

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

DMM

MSO

Logic Analyzer

VNA

Power supplies

Job description

Ford’s EVDD team in Long Beach is hiring a hardware engineer focused on electrical design and validation for electric vehicle systems. You’ll translate requirements into technical specs, capture schematics, select components, and drive design releases.

You’ll work with PCB and mechanical teams to ensure robust layouts and production readiness. You’ll perform worst‑case and thermal analyses, run RCCA investigations, and lead hardware bring‑up and fault analysis.