VP, Engineering

About the role

The VP of Engineering will lead the development of core technology platforms that power the future of electric boating. This includes battery systems, electrical architecture, powertrain, electromechanical systems, structures, and integrated vehicle platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and build the vision, architecture, and roadmap for Arc's battery, electrical, powertrain, electromechanical, structural, and integrated vehicle platforms.
• Create a common technology stack that enables multiple products, customer segments, or vehicle applications to leverage common architectures.
• Build one of the world's best hardware engineering teams by recruiting top talent, coaching engineering leaders, and fostering a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with executive leadership to identify new product opportunities, make foundational technical and organizational decisions, and deliver industry-defining products that balance customer experience, performance, manufacturability, reliability, cost, and speed.
• Continuously simplify products, architectures, and engineering processes to reduce complexity, improve quality, accelerate development, and create durable competitive advantages.
• Partner closely with Operations, Supply Chain, Software, Manufacturing, and Sales & Service to ensure every platform is designed, launched, manufactured, supported, and continuously improved throughout its lifecycle.

Requirements

• Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary hardware engineering organizations responsible for developing complex electromechanical products from early architecture through high-volume production.
• Strong systems-level understanding of battery systems, electrical architecture, powertrain, electromechanical systems, structures, and hardware-software integration, with the ability to make thoughtful technical and organizational tradeoffs.
• Proven track record of building and developing exceptional engineering organizations by recruiting top talent, coaching engineering leaders, and fostering a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Experience defining long-term technology roadmaps and platform strategies that enable multiple products, customer segments, or vehicle applications to leverage common architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to balance customer experience, engineering rigor, manufacturability, reliability, cost, schedule, and business objectives while making high-impact product decisions.

Qualifications

• Exceptional communication and leadership skills, with experience aligning cross-functional organizations and influencing executive stakeholders through periods of rapid growth and organizational change.

Skills

• Strong systems-level understanding of battery systems, electrical architecture, powertrain, electromechanical systems, structures, and hardware-software integration.
• Experience leading hardware engineering organizations within automotive, aerospace, robotics, consumer electronics, marine, or other complex hardware industries.
• Experience developing electric vehicles, battery systems, power electronics, high-voltage architectures, or other advanced electromechanical platforms.
• Experience leading multiple successful new product introductions while simultaneously supporting sustaining engineering and high-rate production.
• Passion for building industry-defining products and organizations that combine world-class hardware, software, and customer experience.

Benefits

At Arc, we offer highly competitive equity grants, semi-annual bonuses tied to impact, and a range of benefits including healthcare, parental leave, PTO, income protection, retirement savings, and office perks. We also provide safety support, captain training, and relocation assistance.

Pay

$300,000 annually

Schedule

Full-time