Quality Engineer, Bring Up/ EOL

About Harbinger

Harbinger is an American commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbinger’s best-in-class team of EV, battery, and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to bring a first-of-its-kind EV platform to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs and Hybrids. Harbinger: Familiar Form, Revolutionary Foundation.

Job Overview

We are looking for a Quality Engineer (Bring-up / EOL) to lead quality validation during vehicle commissioning, first-time bring-up, and final End-of-Line (EOL) testing operations. You will be responsible for ensuring that all vehicle subsystems—including high/low voltage power, powertrain, software, diagnostics, and functional safety systems—are seamlessly integrated, flashed, calibrated, and fully validated prior to customer delivery. This role involves collaborating with vehicle testing, manufacturing, embedded software, and product design teams to establish robust quality gates, troubleshoot complex system-level integration issues, and drive continuous improvement. The Bring-up / EOL Quality Engineer will act as a key liaison across cross-functional commissioning and production teams. Responsibilities include defining EOL test standards, performing root cause analysis on vehicle bring-up failures, establishing inspection and testing quality gates, managing test equipment buy-offs, and driving corrective actions. A successful Bring-up / EOL Quality Engineer should have excellent system-level troubleshooting skills and be able to ensure that production testing processes and finished vehicles consistently meet performance and safety standards.

What You’ll Do:

• Monitor vehicle bring-up and End-of-Line (EOL) quality performance metrics, proactively identifying and escalating emerging high-impact issues using diagnostic logs, test yield data, and defect trends for early resolution.

• Drive timely root cause analysis and resolution for complex bring-up failures, software flashing errors, calibration faults, and test aborts by engaging cross-functional software, electrical, and manufacturing teams with a data-driven approach.

• Implement continuous improvement by feeding bring-up and EOL test insights and failure modes back into upstream design, software release, and assembly processes.

• Develop and track data-driven metrics for EOL test cycle times, first-time-through (FTT) yield, test coverage, and corrective action effectiveness.

• Create innovative tools, diagnostic scripts, and standardized processes to enhance bring-up efficiency, test automation, and scalability across factory operations.

• Continuously develop vehicle bring-up quality protocols, EOL test specifications, dynamic testing routines (e.g., chassis dyno/rolling road, track testing), and quality control gates.

• Oversee thorough testing and validation of complete vehicle systems (including software flashing, ECU calibration, CAN/LIN bus diagnostics, Hi-Pot safety tests, ADAS/sensor calibration, and functional safety checks) to ensure compliance with specifications.

• Support factory commissioning teams with the buy-off and validation of EOL test equipment, diagnostic tools, automated test benches, and software flashing infrastructure.

• Formulate effective corrective actions, solutions, and process enhancements for integration, software release, and testing-related challenges on the production floor.

• Participate in design and process reviews (DFMEA/PFMEA) alongside software, electrical, and manufacturing engineering teams to mitigate risks associated with vehicle commissioning and EOL testing routines.

• Lead and instruct interdisciplinary efforts to conduct Root Cause analysis (8D, 5-Why) for bring-up non-conformances, DTCs (Diagnostic Trouble Codes), and system integration bugs, ensuring timely containment and preventative solutions.

• Lead MRB (Material Review Board) disposition for non-conforming vehicles/sub-assemblies at EOL and act as a quality representative within the engineering change control board for software and test procedure updates.

Who You Are:

• You are a hands-on engineer who thrives in dynamic production environments and loves solving complex system-level problems. You have a strong bias for action and continuous improvement.

• You are energetic, passionate about vehicle quality, and driven to ensure zero-defect delivery of high-tech vehicles.

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechatronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Automotive Engineering, or a related technical field.

• 3 to 5 years of pertinent experience in vehicle bring-up, End-of-Line (EOL) testing, commissioning, or manufacturing quality engineering within automotive, EV/e-mobility, commercial vehicle, or aerospace industries.

• Deep experience with vehicle diagnostic protocols (UDS, OBD-II), CAN/CAN-FD/LIN bus tools (e.g., Vector CANoe/CANalyzer, PCAN), software flashing, ECU calibration, and automated test environments.

• ASQ Certifications such as Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Certified Quality Auditor (CQA), Certified Quality Manager (CQM), Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, or higher preferred.

• Proficiency in ISO 9001:2018 or IATF 16949 standards highly desired.

• Familiarity with fundamental quality core tools including Quality Management Systems, APQP, SPC, GR&R, PPAP, FMEA (DFMEA/PFMEA), Control Plans, and Functional Safety (ISO 26262) principles.

• Strong analytical, system-level troubleshooting, verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

• Excellent project management skills, capable of managing multiple commissioning and testing projects concurrently.

• Solid understanding of EV powertrain integration, battery systems, vehicle control units (VCU), thermal management routines, chassis dynos, and factory test cell infrastructure.

• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time.

Key Benefits & Perks:

• Comprehensive Health, Dental & Vision (HDV) – 100% employee covered
• Early-stage Stock Options
• Robust Retirement Savings (401k, HSA, FSA)
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) & Parental Leave
• Annual Vacation Bonus
• Wellness & Fertility Benefits
• Cell Phone Stipend
• Complimentary Meals & Stocked Kitchens

California Pay Range$120,000—$180,000 USDEqual Opportunity Harbinger is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law. Harbinger is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at [email protected]. Candidate Data Privacy Harbinger may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (“Candidate Personal Data”). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Harbinger may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law. Harbinger may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our HR, legal, and finance teams, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Harbinger affiliates; and (iii) Harbinger’s service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services. Harbinger may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions. Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services. Any unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles submitted in response to our job posting shall be considered the property of Harbinger and are not subject to payment of referral or placement fees if any such candidate is later hired by Harbinger unless you have a signed written agreement in place with us which covers the applicable job posting.