Vehicle Development - Fleet Support Engineer

Vehicle Development - Fleet Support Engineer

Location: Foster City, California (Onsite)

Alternate

Location

Hayward, CA

Role Overview

As a Plant Issue Resolution Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality and build readiness of autonomous vehicles during manufacturing. You will operate at the intersection of engineering and production, driving rapid containment and resolution of issues identified during general assembly and end-of-line validation. This role requires technical depth, urgency in execution, and the ability to lead cross-functional teams to root cause and implement durable corrective actions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead triage, containment, and resolution plan of issues identified during general assembly and end-of-line testing across door systems, latches, actuators, sealing, access panels, glazing, and body structures.

• Define and execute short-term containment actions, including rework plans, part quarantine, and build flow protection.

• Collaborate cross-functionally to lead root cause analysis across design, process, supplier, and manufacturing domains, identify and prioritize blockers, and drive Design for Manufacturing (DFM) improvements.

• Support cross-functional teams to implement permanent corrective actions (PCA) and prevent recurrence.

• Support prototype builds, production trials, and engineering changes to validate fixes and improve manufacturability.

• Develop and maintain metrics, dashboards, and reporting to track issue health, closure rates, and recurrence and improve issue tracking, prioritization, and cross-functional execution processes.

• Required Qualifications

• Education: B.S. or M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related technical field.

• Experience: 6-8 years of experience in automotive OEMs, robotics, aviation, or other complex hardware systems within manufacturing, product engineering, or sustaining environments. Proven experience leading root cause analysis and corrective actions in production, manufacturing, or field environments, including new product launch support.

• Technical Skills

• Strong understanding of vehicle systems across door systems, latches, actuators, sealing, access panels, glazing, and body structures. Strong cross-functional communication and problem-solving skills with the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment.

• Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Design for Manufacturing (DFM), production process optimization, Lean, Six Sigma, or similar continuous improvement methodologies.

• Experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or EV systems.

• Familiarity with tools such as 3DX (Dassault), DELMIA, SAP ME/MII, JIRA, Confluence, SQL, Python, or data visualization tools.

Benefits

• Overview: Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans. ESPP and 401K programs with company match after 12 months. Health Savings Account options, Employee Assistance Program, corporate discounts, and other savings programs. Professional development opportunities, on-demand training, certification prep, and access to a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars after a period of tenure, plus certification discounts and other perks to associations.

• Everforth Apex is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

• Note: This description is not all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties as necessary.