Sr. Field Quality Engineer, ADAS

About the role

The Sr. Field Quality Engineer, ADAS role exists to ensure quality risks are identified, understood, and resolved before they become customer-impacting issues while supporting successful vehicle launches, production readiness, and ramp-up execution across Lucid's current and future product portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Support vehicle launch activities across prototype builds, validation programs, pilot builds, pre-production, Start of Production (SOP), and production ramp-up.
• Partner with Program Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Operations, and Engineering teams to identify launch risks, confirm readiness, and support controlled execution.
• Investigate and diagnose complex vehicle issues across key systems, including powertrain, electrical, thermal, chassis, body, infotainment, and software-enabled vehicle functions.
• Perform hands-on troubleshooting activities, including vehicle diagnostics, data logging, signal validation, component-level inspections, and failure analysis.
• Replicate issues on customer, fleet, pilot-build, pre-production, or test vehicles to validate failure conditions and confirm technical findings.
• Analyze vehicle diagnostics, fault codes, service logs, telemetry, and system behavior to determine root cause and support corrective action planning.
• Support containment planning, issue escalation, and rapid-response activities during launch and production ramp-up phases.
• Work closely with Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality, Diagnostics, Service, Program Management, and Operations teams to resolve issues and improve launch readiness.
• Translate field findings into clear technical problem statements supported by actionable data and engineering recommendations.
• Manage the lifecycle of quality concerns from identification through closure, including issue replication, data collection, documentation, severity and risk assessment, corrective action tracking, validation, verification, and confirmation of fix effectiveness.
• Ensure investigations are executed efficiently and documented thoroughly within internal quality systems.
• Prioritize and escalate high-risk or high-frequency quality concerns that could affect customer experience.
• Support reductions in vehicle downtime, repeat repairs, launch-related quality escapes, and service complexity.
• Recommend improvements to diagnostic strategies, service procedures, launch readiness plans, and repair processes.
• Lead or support structured root cause investigations involving vehicle hardware, software, manufacturing, supplier, process, or integration-related concerns.
• Differentiate between design, manufacturing, supplier, process, service, and integration-related failures.
• Partner with Engineering teams to develop, validate, and confirm corrective actions.
• Translate field learnings into design improvements, launch process enhancements, diagnostic strategy updates, service readiness recommendations, and quality system improvements that strengthen future vehicle programs and launch execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Automotive Engineering, or a related STEM discipline.
• 6+ years of experience in Automotive Field Quality, Product Quality, Reliability Engineering, Warranty Engineering, Diagnostics Engineering, Manufacturing Quality, Vehicle Integration, Service Engineering, or related technical disciplines.
• Strong understanding of vehicle systems, including powertrain, electrical systems, high-voltage systems, thermal systems, chassis, body, infotainment, and software-enabled vehicle functions.
• Hands-on experience performing vehicle investigations, issue replication, diagnostics, validation, and technical problem solving.
• Experience investigating complex vehicle issues and performing structured root cause analysis.
• Ability to interpret diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs), service logs, vehicle logs, telemetry data, warranty information, and manufacturing data.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify trends, variability drivers, and emerging risks using real-world field, warranty, and production data.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Service, Program Management, Operations, and Supplier-facing teams.
• Experience supporting manufacturing operations, launch activities, production readiness, or fast-paced production environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical findings into clear problem statements, risk assessments, and action plans.
• High attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced launch and production environments where priorities evolve rapidly.