Senior Electronics Engineer - Electronics

As the leading transit bus manufacturer in the United States, GILLIG buses play a critical role in the environmental and social initiatives in communities across our nation. GILLIG is on the forefront in the transition to zero-emission vehicles and has an unmatched reputation in the industry for quality, reliability, durability, service, and support. From initial design through final assembly, each GILLIG bus is designed and built in Livermore, CA.

WHY GILLIG

Leader in environmentally friendly mobility solutions including battery electric, hybrid electric, near-zero CNG and clean diesel transit buses

Renowned for its inclusive team/family-oriented culture

Stable, successful, and growing organization – a Bay Area business for over 132 years!

Flexible schedules (*depending on project needs)

Excellent compensation including company paid medical premiums, generous retirement plan and other comprehensive benefits

DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW

GILLIG Engineering is responsible for the development, customization, and configuration of GILLIG’s clean technology heavy-duty transit buses. We are committed to developing the most reliable buses that connect communities, eliminates congestion, and contributes to a greener environment. Our engineers are engaged in designing, analyzing, testing, launching, and problem solving across a wide range of technical areas.

Electrical Engineering is responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing electrical systems and components, such as low high voltage power distribution, CANbus network topology variation, infotainment/CAD/AVL surveillance system integration to ensure safety, durability, and performance. They collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet regulatory standards, troubleshoot issues during production, and ensure cost-effective and efficient designs tailored to the needs of heavy-duty transit buses.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Senior Electrical Engineer position is a hands-on role directly responsible for transit bus design. Duties involve requirements analysis engineering, concept design, detailed design, problem resolution, vehicle attribute design, BOM development, customer application research other engineering duties that involve designing, configuring and industrializing electrical systems for the manufacturing of heavy-duty transit buses. This person will have direct influence at the systems and components level to optimize vehicle functionality and performance attributes. This is a direct, full-time position with GILLIG.

This is an on-site position in Livermore, CA that will report directly to the Electrical Engineering Manager but may also receive direction and guidance from senior engineers.

TECHNICAL FOCUS

Within the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Surveillance group, you will thrive on the integration challenges around Infotainment, CAD/AVL/AVM (Computer-Aided Dispatch/Automatic Vehicle Location/Automatic Vehicle Monitoring), and cybersecurity needs of the bus. Each of our customers have the opportunity to spec their systems amongst a range of suppliers and you will work directly with these suppliers to appropriately engineer document these systems and ensure their functionality.

ITS Surveillance ties together exterior signage, interior monitors/displays, surveillance security, and vehicle monitoring systems to provide our customers and their riders with valuable information and communications across their transit networks. Staying current with the latest offerings of the full spectrum of vehicle surveillance, logic, passenger information, and security systems will give you a competitive edge.

Enjoying a mix of working on vehicle harnessing, component integration, discrete signals, CANbus, antenna systems, and voice data radio systems is a requirement for this team.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL

Create and maintain Bills of Materials (BOM), defining appropriate application of parts assembly; providing input on modular BOM structure to maintain and improve configuration efficiency

Gather information regarding supplier components, existing GILLIG designs and technological advancements to rationalize and optimize design concepts

Use analytical tools to assess designs of self and others, including but not limited to, power, grounding, circuit protection, electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), signal integrity, and thermal management.

Perform design trade-offs and optimization to devise robust, manufacturable, and maintainable design concepts

Use ECAD tools to create, review release vehicle components, schematics and harness assemblies

Gain a mastery of both Customer Design REI releases, including significant involvement in BOM structuring, Change Control, Production Change Order (PCO), and Engineered Production Change

Support designs throughout entre lifecycle, including development, production launch, variant designs customization, and field support

Provide expert input working with the test engineer(s) to create DVP R, execute the defined test…