# Manager, Vehicle Controls

**Company**: Arc
**Location**: Torrance, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $215,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3601127

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## Description

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.

## Skills

### Required
- Embedded systems
- Controls
- Vehicle electrical integration
- CAN-based architectures
- Network-level debugging tools
- C/C++
- Rust
- Python
- MATLAB/Simulink
- DFMEA
- Functional safety
- Reliability engineering

### Nice to have
- EV or marine electrical and controls architectures
- Model-based design
- Control algorithm development
- Automated validation or HIL infrastructure
- Oscilloscopes
- Data loggers
- ECU flashing tools

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