Endurance Energy

Cable Harness Specialist

Seattle, WA. Posted 2 months ago

The role

You will partner with a Harness Engineer to design and build marine wiring harnesses for subsea systems. You will own the harness build and test process end to end, including setting up workspaces, building assemblies, and performing testing.

What you will do

  • Partner with the Harness Engineer to design and manufacture high reliability submarine wiring harnesses
  • Perform precision termination work including cutting, stripping, crimping, splicing, soldering, and overmolding
  • Select connectors, wire types, shielding, and routing for subsea environments
  • Pressure-proof and hipot test finished harnesses and record results
  • Set up and maintain the harness assembly and test workspace
  • Maintain inventory of terminations, cable, connectors, and hardware
  • Write work instructions and build-and-test standards and train others
  • Read and interpret schematics, wiring diagrams, and dimensional layout drawings
  • Document builds, issues, and fixes for engineering and QA traceability
  • Troubleshoot harness and electrical faults

Required qualifications

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience building and troubleshooting complex wiring harnesses as an electronics technician, electrical technician, or similar role
  • Strong practical understanding of connectors, crimping, splicing, shielding, grounding, cable management, and over-molding techniques and equipment
  • Strong soldering skills, including fine-pitch and board-level work
  • Ability to read and interpret schematics, wiring diagrams, and dimensional layout drawings
  • Experience with hipot testing and electrical test equipment such as digital multimeters, milli-ohm meters, and insulation testers
  • Experience creating work instructions or build standards, and training others to follow them
  • High ownership mindset and ability to operate independently with minimal supervision
  • Comfortable in a fast-paced, prototype-driven environment where designs evolve rapidly
  • Strong communication skills
  • Able to lift 50 lbs

Nice to have

  • Experience building harnesses for marine, subsea, or aerospace systems
  • Experience pressure-proofing or pressure-testing subsea assemblies
  • Certification in or knowledge of IPC standards for assembly and inspection (for example IPC/WHMA-A-620, IPC J-STD)

Benefits

  • Health, Dental, and Vision insurance coverage
  • Flexible PTO including 12 paid company holidays
  • Travel to deployment sites along oceanic ridges
  • Participate in sea trials and deployment operations
  • Work with technology spanning high-power electronics, marine systems, and clean energy
  • Company-sponsored recreational dive certification
  • Access to the company boat
  • Free meals and snacks

About the company

Endurance is building the world's first modular subsea geothermal power plants, converting vast thermal resources under the ocean into gigawatts of baseload power. The founding team includes veterans from SpaceX, Helion, Blue Origin, and Apple.