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Harness Specialist

Job Summary:

Our client in Irvine, CA is looking for a Harness Specialist. This is a contract position.

What You Will Do:

Wiring Harness Prototyping – You will interpret early prototype level pinouts, diagrams, or drawings to build “first of their kind” harnesses and electrical subsystems, then support subsequent debugging and design verification.Collaborate closely with all requesting teams for harness prototype work. First contact for Wire Harness.Evaluate initial request and clarify informational or technical gaps in the request.Gather necessary components efficiently and build harnesses as requested.Test and ensure harnesses meet expectation of the requestor and the application.Vehicle Prototyping and Testing – You will support with building and planning of electrical vehicle-level updates, modifications, and testing equipment provisioning.Collaborate closely with all requesting teams for harness prototype work.Evaluate initial request and clarify informational or technical gaps in the request.If larger project, may provide hands-on leadership to other team members supporting in the task (must remain deeply involved).Remain in close communication with the requestor regarding project status, estimated date of completion, blockers, and areas where we require their support. Collaborate with Project Management to complete if necessary.Perform and plan iterations as needed.Root Cause Challenging Issues – You will diagnose, and root cause a wide variety of electrical issues which arise from evolving development across harness, ECUs, and software.Ability to join any electrical system level diagnostic issue at any point and any magnitude and lead the diagnostic effort by breaking the known issues down to a methodical and technically sound approach.Execute on diagnostic approach outlined above and find the issue/s down to a specific wiring issue (incorrect pinout, incorrect wire size, etc), or isolate to a module or device level failure (CGM not functional).Drive System Issues to Resolution – You will exhibit the technical skills to drive resolutions from the root causes, by sharing information to relevant teams across the company.Ability to root cause issue, document the issue in a method that is understandable and shareable to the relevant parties.Share information with relevant stakeholders and drivers and ensure they have all necessary technical information and context to drive a resolution on their side.Collaborative Problem Solving– You will work closely and collaborate with all relevant teams across the company to drive solutions.Upon cross team technical or programmatic issues that arise, work across teams and organizations in a collaborative way to solve problems together.Demonstrate supportive and creative problem solving regardless of “who’s job it is” to reach the best solution.Keep leadership on the team closely informed of support occurring outside of core areas in order to help prioritize tasks and cross team support as needed.

What You Will Need:

Basics:

Expected to have electrical skillset by formal training and experience (or significant experience if no formal education). Technicians must have extensive experience in working with wire harness and familiar with electrical device work, electrical diagnostics, or vehicle level electrical experience. The areas of focus must be proficient to the point of requiring no supervision.Familiar with wire harness and electrical schematic, terminology, and wire harness quality.Automotive harness hands-on experience that includes crimping, wire stripping, soldering, de-pinning and molded component removal/attachment. Experience with working with small terminals. Working with spreadsheet and familiarity with project management software (e.g. Jira, Confluence).Able to lead low to medium complexity (somewhat defined but technical program gaps expected/ first time builds) projects within team domains (up to a team of 2 technicians).Can identify technical risks and escalate to on-team leadership to help resolve.Expected to take first step in resolving gaps with requestors, may lean on leadership for support after first step.Position fully onsite. Salary range: 38k - 55k annual. 

How You Will Be Successful:

Envision the FutureCommunicate Honestly and BroadlySeek Technology and Business “First”Embrace Diversity and Take Risks

What We Offer:

Competitive SalaryComprehensive Benefit Package401(k) with matching contributionsPaid Time OffEmployee DiscountsFree training on all Altair products

Why Work with Us:

Altair is a global technology company that provides software and cloud solutions in the area of data analytics, product development, and high-performance computing (HPC). Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world, while creating a more sustainable future. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists, and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer’s toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities.

Our vision is to transform customer decision making with data analytics, simulation, and high-performance computing.

For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration. To learn more, please visit

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Altair is an equal opportunity employer. Our backgrounds are diverse, and every member of our global team is critical to our success. Altair’s history demonstrations a belief that empowering each individual authentic voice reinforces a culture that thrives because of the uniqueness among our team.

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