Manager, Vehicle Controls

We're looking for a Manager, Vehicle Controls to own the execution, deployment, and process improvements of our vehicle controls systems with a team of talented Vehicle Controls Engineers. As a key member of our engineering team, you will be responsible for leading, mentoring, and growing a high-performing vehicle controls engineering team, providing technical guidance and career development support.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading, mentoring, and growing a high-performing vehicle controls engineering team, providing technical guidance and career development support.
• Owning the vehicle-level control architecture from prototype through production, ensuring design quality, safety, and reliability across all real-time systems.
• Providing hands-on technical leadership when needed, guiding bring-up, debugging, validation, and problem-solving across powertrain, BMS, propulsion, and maneuvering systems.
• Driving the development and validation of control strategies and fault detection/mitigation logic for safety-critical systems.
• Overseeing structured root cause investigations using data, instrumentation, and experimentation , and ensure learnings are systematically incorporated into the product.
• Owning and continuously improving the team's validation strategy, including bench testing, HIL infrastructure, and production-level verification.
• Partnering with electrical, firmware, and mechanical teams to lead cross-domain integration and resolve complex system-level issues.
• Collaborating with service and manufacturing teams to proactively triage controls faults, define service actions, and ensure high uptime across the fleet.
• Providing executive-level updates on team progress, technical risks, and mitigation strategies.
• Contributing to roadmap planning for future vehicle programs, identifying technical risks, staffing needs, and opportunities for innovation in vehicle intelligence and autonomy.
• Fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and cross-functional collaboration.