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# Senior Manager, Hardware Engineering

- **Company:** Arc Full-time
- **Location:** Torrance, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $225,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Engineering, Software Engineering
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-manager-hardware-engineering-torrance-ca--b81ab7f4-0a27-417e-b573-4af691253d09

## About the Role

Computer Engineering, Recreation, Software Design, Computer Engineering, Testing, Electrical Engineering, Research & Development (R&D), Electricity, Mechanical Testing, Mechanical Engineering, As a leader of Hardware Engineering, you will own all physical engineering on our consumer vessels. That means overseeing mechanical, electrical, and test engineering teams.

We're looking for someone fired up by the mission and ready to build. You'll thrive here if you move fast, take ownership, and care about the details.

This is a full-time, on-site role at our Los Angeles headquarters., * A Bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering field

 * Robust experience leading a team working in a fast paced and challenging environment
 * A strong understanding of both mechanical and electrical engineering fundamentals
 * Good business sense and pragmatism to meet company objectives outside of just engineering objectives
 * First principles thinking with the ability to motivate a dissenting opinion when needed
 * Strong interpersonal and people management skills, including clear written and verbal communication
 * Prior experience leading cross functionally to grow a high performing engineering team

Bonus Qualifications

 * Proven track record of engineering success under tight timelines
 * Experience driving a product from early R&D through to high rate production
 * Comfortable pushing at a fast but sustainable pace
 * Enthusiasm for boating and the water

At Arc, we encourage diversity and consider all qualified applicants equally for employment, regardless of background, identity, or status. You're always welcome to reach out even if you don't meet many of these qualifications. Passion and aptitude make up for a lot.

## Description

* Building and maintaining a strong R&D function across multiple engineering disciplines
 * Working with electrical, mechanical, and test engineering teams to ensure designs are performant, simplified, and meeting program objectives
 * Streamlining processes to create an R&D powerhouse that can quickly turn around new products
 * Working closely with sales, service, production, product, and industrial design to advance our consumer engineering offerings
 * Setting the long term vision for Arc's small vessel design engineering team and guiding difficult, impactful decisions for our sub-1MW powertrain platforms
 * Lead the core low voltage and high voltage powertrain platform and compute for our consumer vessels, with crossover into commercial applications up to and including full-vessel vertical integration.
 * Motivating the team to execute under tight timelines while preventing burn out