Cariadinc

Cariadinc

Staff Engineer, EMI-EMC

Mountain View, CA · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 62 days ago
PCB DesignEMI/EMCLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingMentoringOrganizational Skills

About the role

  • The role balances hands-on technical depth with broad cross-functional influence to improve product predictability, accelerate issue resolution, and raise EMC capability across the organization.

Responsibilities

  • Lead EMC readiness assessments across EVT/DVT/PVT and provide clear go/no-go recommendations with risk-based mitigation paths.
  • Drive alignment across design, validation, regulatory, and supplier teams on compliance priorities, tradeoffs, and execution plans.
  • Lead complex debug-to-fix investigations for EMC failures, including hypothesis-driven experiments, root cause analysis, mitigation tradeoff evaluation, and validation to closure.
  • Review schematics, PCB layouts, harness/mechanical designs, and system partitioning to identify risk areas early and influence design decisions before chamber entry.
  • Develop and maintain EMC design standards, control plans, reusable checklists, and lessons learned that scale across multiple programs.
  • Support audits, compliance reviews, and continuous improvement of EMC processes, documentation, and organizational capability.
  • Translate applicable internal, regulatory, and customer requirements into platform-level verification strategies, design guardrails, and program-specific test plans.
  • Technical Problem Solving, Debug-to-Fix & Design Enablement
  • Standards, Capability Building & Cross-Functional Influence
  • This role defines platform-level requirements, technical standards, and risk management approaches; leads data-driven mitigation with design teams and suppliers; and drives readiness decisions across development milestones.

Skills

  • Strong analytical and conceptual thinking; structured problem solving in ambiguous, cross-functional environments.
  • Executive-ready communication skills (interpersonal, presentation, and written) with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience collaborating within VW Group engineering / validation ecosystems (processes, stakeholders, ways of working).
  • ​Required Specialized
  • ​Workplace Flexibility:
  • ​ Travel to worldwide locations required, less than 25%.
  • ​Years of Relevant Experience:
  • ​Required Education:

Compensation

  • We are CARIAD, an automotive software development team with the Volkswagen Group.
  • Our mission is to make the automotive experience safer, more sustainable, more comfortable, more digital, and more fun.
  • To achieve that we are building the leading tech stack for the automotive industry and creating a unified software platform for over 10 million new vehicles per year.
  • We're looking for talented, digital minds like you to help us create code that moves the world.
  • Together with you, we'll build outstanding digital experiences and products for all Volkswagen Group brands that will transform mobility.
  • Join us as we shape the future of the car and everyone around it.

Benefits

  • Define and own EMC compliance strategy across hardware platforms and ECUs from concept through certification, including requirement allocation, milestone criteria, and risk retirement plans.
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