Senior Electrical Engineer - Power Distribution

<div class="content-intro"><p>We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.</p> <p>As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.</p> <p>When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.</p></div><p>As Senior Electrical Engineer - Power Distribution you will be responsible for; 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.</p> <p>This person will have direct influence at the systems and components level to optimize vehicle functionality and performance attributes. This is an on-site position in Livermore, CA and will report directly to the Electrical Engineering Manager but may also receive direction and guidance from senior engineers, You will apply your skills & experience to provide highly customized, vehicle-based power & signal distribution systems through definition and/or selection of harnesses, devices, fusing, and connectors of appropriate.</p> <ul> <li>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</li> <li>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</li> <li>Perform design trade-offs and optimization to devise robust, manufacturable, and maintainable design concepts</li> <li>Use ECAD tools to create, review & release vehicle components, schematics and harness assemblies</li> <li>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</li> <li>Support designs throughout entre lifecycle, including development, production launch, variant designs & customization, and field support</li> <li>Provide expert input working with the test engineer(s) to create DVP&R, execute the defined test plan and review the test results/reports</li> <li>Provide engineering input to technical publications, such as schematics, service, parts, and driver’s manuals Collaborate and iterate designs with cross-functional partners such as mechanical, controls, manufacturing engineers, as well as production personnel</li> </ul> <p><strong>Qualifications;</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor of Science (BS) in Engineering. Electrical Engineering preferred</li> <li>Minimum 5 years of progressive engineering experience</li> <li>Automotive, commercial and/or heavy-duty vehicle design familiarity, direct experience a plus</li> <li>Fluent with BOM, documentation control, and revision/version management. Experience with a configure-to