# Manager, Vehicle Controls

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

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## Description

The marine industry supports recreation, global commerce, and national defense. Arc is on a mission to electrify the marine industry.

As Arc's vehicle controls manager, you will lead the development of cutting-edge vehicle control systems across all programs. This is a full-time, on-site role at our Los Angeles headquarters.

## Responsibilities

- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing vehicle controls engineering team.

- Invest in processes that maximize efficiency, quality, and velocity.

- Improve team culture by modeling Arc's values and inspiring them in others.

- Partner with electrical, firmware, and mechanical teams to lead cross-domain integration and resolve complex system-level issues.

- Collaborate with service and manufacturing teams to proactively triage controls faults, define service actions, and ensure high uptime across the fleet.

- Contribute to roadmap planning for future vehicle programs, identifying technical risks, staffing needs.

- Drive long-term technical strategy to build moats and leapfrog capabilities.

- Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and cross-functional collaboration.

## Requirements

- 5+ years of hands-on experience in embedded systems, controls, or vehicle electrical integration.

- 2+ years of proven experience leading and managing engineering teams.

- Demonstrated experience shipping complex hardware-integrated, real-time systems into production.

- Strong intuition for system-level tradeoffs under real-world constraints.

- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

## Benefits

- Base salary: $215,000 annually

- Highly competitive equity grants

- Semi-annual bonuses tied to impact

- Top-tier benefits, including:

- Healthcare benefits , 99% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision

- Parental leave , 14 weeks fully paid for birthing and non-birthing parents

- Generous time off , Highly competitive PTO

- Income protection , Life and disability insurance

- Retirement savings , Traditional and Roth 401(k) access

- Water fund , $500 for spending on water activities

- Professional development , $500 annual reimbursement

- Safety Support , Annual reimbursement for PPE and ergonomic equipment

- Captain training , Training and access to take Arcboats out

- Office perks , Daily lunches, snacks, and good coffee

## Skills

### Required
- embedded systems
- controls
- vehicle electrical integration
- leadership
- engineering management

### Nice to have
- EV or marine electrical and controls architectures
- C/C++
- Rust
- model-based design
- control algorithm development

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