EV HV Component Design & Release Engineer — Impact & Growth

Workhorse; Wixom (MI); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dog-Friendly Workplace

Strong People-First Culture

Innovation Meets Execution

Growth-Oriented Environment

Lead the Future of Electric Mobility

Job summary

Workhorse is seeking a High-Voltage Component Design Release Engineer to lead the development, validation, and production release of HV components such as traction inverters, DC/DC converters, and onboard chargers for our electric vehicle platforms.

You will manage requirements, supplier interactions, timing plans, and validation activities across mule, design validation, and production validation stages, while collaborating with mechanical, thermal, and vehicle integration teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 2–5 years of automotive engineering experience.
• Experience developing or integrating high-voltage electrical components and systems.
• Understanding of automotive development phases: mule, design validation, production validation, production launch.
• Experience managing multiple components, suppliers, and development activities simultaneously.
• Strong technical communication, problem-solving, and project-management skills.
• Ability to work with cross-functional engineering, manufacturing, purchasing, quality, and service teams.
• Willingness to travel to supplier engineering and manufacturing locations.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, development, validation, integration, and release of assigned high-voltage components.
• Develop, maintain, and refine component requirements.
• Lead technical evaluations and support supplier selection and sourcing activities.
• Manage supplier engineering, design, manufacturing, validation, and production-readiness activities.
• Develop and maintain component timing plans, validation plans, and engineering deliverables.
• Track and report component development status, production readiness, validation progress, risks, and open issues.
• Review supplier designs, drawings, specifications, test reports, and technical documentation.
• Collaborate with mechanical, packaging, thermal, electrical, and vehicle integration teams to package and integrate components.
• Support prototype, mule, design-validation, and production-validation vehicle builds.
• Provide on-site engineering support at prototype build locations, supplier facilities, and Workhorse plants.
• Lead component-level issue resolution and support vehicle-level troubleshooting.
• Support production, field-service, warranty, and root-cause investigations for assigned components.
• Ensure components meet performance, reliability, quality, safety, cost, and timing requirements.
• Drive issues to closure while coordinating across suppliers and internal teams.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Automotive engineering

Technical communication

Project management

Cross-functional teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Workhorse is seeking a High-Voltage Component Design Release Engineer to lead the development, validation, and production release of HV components such as traction inverters, DC/DC converters, and onboard chargers for our electric vehicle platforms.

You will manage requirements, supplier interactions, timing plans, and validation activities across mule, design validation, and production validation stages, while collaborating with mechanical, thermal, and vehicle integration teams.