Powertrain Test Engineer

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

Based out of our Garden Grove headquarters, the Powertrain Test Engineer is responsible for the development, maintenance, and improvement of the Powertrain test systems. You will develop in-house test benches for our electric drive unit and components to be used for current product validation, new product development, and failure reproduction. Ideal candidates will be able to create and integrate automation solutions for testing and data acquisition.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and deploy electromechanical test benches for electric drive units and its components through software and hands-on approaches.


• Develop and maintain test standards, design and develop test equipment, or procuring and handling purchased test capital equipment to support test readiness.


• Leverage data analysis and existing tools to reproduce and characterize failures.


• Design and architect electric motor and electric drive unit dynamometers and HIL systems.


• Support validation of automated test systems.

Who You Are:

• 7+ years of relevant industry experience with emphasis on hardware validation and integration testing


• Experience working with NI hardware (PXIe-RT, cRIO, and cDAQ) and coding with real-time and FPGA modules


• Ability to use and write drivers for NI-XNET (CAN and LIN) and NI-VISA Serial (RS232, RS485) and TCP/IP (Modbus, SCPI, FTP and TCP/IP)


• Experience in test data analysis and setting up data processing streams in Matlab, Python, or similar programming.


• Familiarity with electronics test equipment such as power supplies, electronic loads, oscilloscope, power analyzers, data acquisition and measurement sensors.


• Experience with 3D CAD modeling software.

Nice to Have:

• NI LabVIEW certification: CLD minimum. CLA preferred.


• 5+ years experience in automotive Powertrain and/or electric motor development and validation.


• Solid understanding of product development, DFMEA, DVP&R, and product requirements.

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

$100,000 - $140,000 USD

Equal 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.

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