Location
Rancho Dominguez, California, United States
Base salary
$110,000–$130,000 per year, dependent on experience, knowledge, and interview performance.
Company
Motivo is a project-based engineering company delivering mechanical and electrical system design and prototype builds across mobility and automotive, aerospace, robotics, and clean energy markets.
What you will do
•Design and develop electrical and electro-mechanical systems for multiple concurrent projects.
•Develop and edit top-level system architectures, technical drawings, component designs, and interface documentation.
•Design embedded electronics, custom PCBs, motor controllers, power supplies, inverters, converters, and related power electronics.
•Perform electrical testing, debugging, fabrication, assembly, and validation using industry-standard tools.
•Work on high-performance and automotive vehicle systems, including components designed for extreme temperature, shock, and vibration.
•Present results and recommendations to internal and external customers and mentor less experienced colleagues, with an approximately 80% hands-on engineering and 20% mentoring work split.
Requirements
•Six or more years of professional engineering experience.
•Direct technical involvement in multiple electro-mechanical projects with embedded electronics, including a deep understanding of motion and control systems theory and physics.
•Exceptional communication skills and the ability to present results and recommendations to internal and external customers.
•Strong ability to mentor less experienced colleagues and handle concurrent fast-paced projects with minimal direction.
•Design experience with motors, motor controllers, power supplies, inverters, converters, and/or power electronics.
•Professional embedded electronics design experience with microcontrollers, DSPs, programmable logic devices such as FPGA or CPLD, memory, high-speed signaling, MEMS sensors, and related components.
•Programming experience, especially with embedded C, real-time operating systems, and/or Matlab Simulink Coder.
•Familiarity with CAN, USB, SPI, I2C, Ethernet, and other communication protocols.
•Electrical test and debug experience using oscilloscopes, in-circuit debugging, digital multimeters, and similar tools.
•Custom PCB design experience spanning schematic entry, board layout, fabrication, assembly, and testing.
•Experience with high-performance vehicles, including electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, race vehicles, Solar Car, or Formula SAE, and their design processes and components.
•Experience designing and fabricating for automotive environments involving extreme temperature, shock, and vibration.
•Experience with various sensor types and technologies, battery chemistries, and battery management systems.
•Experience with R&D, SBIR, venture capital, or similarly funded projects and work efforts.
Culture & Benefits
•Collaborative, tight-knit, multidisciplinary engineering team.
•Work on varied and challenging projects with opportunities for professional growth.
•High-quality insurance and a 401(k) match.
•Generous vacation time and a Monday–Thursday 4/10 work week.
•Profit-sharing bonuses tied to overall company performance, with transparency into company numbers.
