About the role
What we’re building The marine industry supports recreation, global commerce, and national defense. And yet it runs on technology that hasn't meaningfully changed in fifty years. Until now. Arc is on a mission to electrify the marine industry. We're rethinking powertrains, software, and vessel designs from first principles. And we're already executing. We started with consumers to develop and harden our core technology. We’re now scaling production of our flagship model with new models and sectors on the horizon. Now we’re extending our platform to commercial applications, starting with tugs, ferries, and defense, with > years worth of signed contracts and a pipeline that spans every vessel type on the water. The technology is proven, the momentum is building, and the opportunity is enormous. The marine industry is going electric and Arc is building the platform that powers it. Who We're Looking for As Arc’s Manager, Vehicle Controls , you will own the execuition, deployment and process improvements of our vehicle controls systems with a team of talent and skilled Vehicle Controls Engineers. 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. You’ll report to the Director of Software Engineering and work closely with a lean, high-trust team where everyone’s work matters.
What You'll Do Leading, mentoring, and growing a high-performing vehicle controls engineering team, providing technical guidance and career development support. Owning the vehicle-level control architecture from prototype through production, ensuring design quality, safety, and reliability across all real-time systems. Providing hands-on technical leadership when needed, guiding bring-up, debugging, validation, and problem-solving across powertrain, BMS, propulsion, and maneuvering systems. Driving the development and validation of control strategies and fault detection/mitigation logic for safety-critical systems. Overseeing structured root cause investigations using data, instrumentation, and experimentation — and ensure learnings are systematically incorporated into the product. Owning and continuously improving