About this Senior Electrical Engineer role at ALTEN Technology USA
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.
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.
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.
Workplace: On-Site 5 days per week
Location: Berkeley, CA
Salary: $130-160k
We are seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to drive electrical design and component-level cost optimization across battery, energy storage, and industrial products. This role will turn the electrical architecture into detailed component, interface, and verification requirements, carry out cost-reduction work from analysis through validation, and work closely with distributed engineering teams.
Responsibilities
• Carry out electrical design work within the defined architecture, owning assigned subsystems and component areas.
• Develop component, interface, and verification requirements from system and architecture requirements.
• Identify, evaluate, and recommend lower-cost alternatives for switches, sensors, and electrical isolation components, supported by technical and cost analysis.
• Analyze impacts to PCBA interfaces, controls, diagnostics, harnesses, BOMs, and system performance, and flag risks to engineering leadership.
• Prepare and present design work in design reviews, and take part in peer reviews.
• Work directly with mechanical, systems, manufacturing, supply-chain, and validation engineers to resolve technical issues.
• Work with nearshore engineering teams on deliverables, and help make sure documentation is ready for release.
Required Qualifications
• 5+ years of electrical or electromechanical product-development experience. Battery, energy storage, industrial equipment, or automotive experience preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience with sensors, harness interfaces, BOM optimization, and component selection. Exposure to electrical architecture development is a plus.
• Ability to work independently on complex technical problems and support or mentor junior engineers.
• Strong working knowledge of sensors, switches, heaters, pumps, DC/DC converters, power distribution, and harness interfaces.
Salary Range
• $130,000 - 160,000
• The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.
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Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.
