Sr. Engineer Body Structures, Closures, Harness

The role

This role leads the Resident Product Engineering team supporting Body Structures, Closures and Low Voltage Harness across production vehicle programs. The person will manage product issue triage, root cause analysis, and cross-functional escalation to improve vehicle robustness.

What you will do

• Lead the RPE organization across Body Structures, Closures and LV Harness
• Own engineering triage for production and field concerns
• Serve as the engineering escalation point for build, assembly, quality, supplier and manufacturing disruptions
• Coordinate Vehicle Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Production, Quality, Supplier Quality, Service, Supply Chain, Purchasing and Program teams
• Support launch, ramp and Safe Launch activities
• Improve RPE standard work, escalation forums, issue management systems, reporting cadence and problem-solving discipline
• Develop processes, tools, and standards to enable efficient use of resources

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of automotive product engineering experience, including production, launch, sustaining engineering or resident engineering exposure
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering or a related technical discipline
• 5+ years of engineering leadership, people management or technical team leadership experience
• Experience with BIW manufacturing, closure assembly, sealing systems, mechanisms, stampings, castings, extrusions, joining systems and LV harness routing or packaging
• Demonstrated experience leading structured problem solving for complex product issues
• Strong working knowledge of vehicle structures, closures and/or low-voltage electrical distribution systems
• Demonstrated experience in escalation management
• Expertise in using failure mode management tools in product & process development lifecycle (DFMEA/DVP&R/DFM/DFA/PFMEA/Control Plan etc)
• Exceptional communication & documentation skills
• Knowledge of APQP, PPAP, Safe Launch, VMEA/FMEA, 8D, PPS or similar structured problem-solving and quality methods
• Experience using Jira, PLM, issue management systems and production quality data

Nice to have

• Six Sigma Black belt certification
• Collegiate FSAE/BAJA/Similar experience

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision insurance
• life and disability coverage
• paid time off
• paid holidays
• paid sick leave
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Hourly/non-exempt employees accrue up to 120 hours paid time off
• salaried/exempt employee accrue up to 160 hours paid time off
• equity program
• discretionary annual cash incentive program

About the company

Lucid is creating exceptional mobility experiences through innovation to drive the world forward. The company uses proprietary technology and software-defined vehicle architecture to build vehicles in-house across global offices and manufacturing facilities.