Senior Harness Design Engineer; Maritime

About Odin Dynamics

Founded in 2025, Odin Dynamics is a defense technology company building autonomous underwater vehicles that will define the next era of undersea warfare. We are focused on delivering capable, resilient autonomous systems that strengthen the strategic advantage of the United States and its allied navies. We move fast, build real hardware, and operate with the urgency that the mission demands.

We are building a new platform from the ground up. This is not a role where you will inherit a mature product with every architectural decision already made. You will take incomplete requirements, early hardware, and difficult technical constraints and turn them into dependable, production-ready vehicle interconnect systems.

We value rigorous engineering without unnecessary process. Decisions should be driven by physics, test data, and product outcomes—not inherited convention or documentation volume.

Odin Dynamics is hiring a Senior Harness Design Engineer to serve as the Responsible Engineer for vehicle wiring harnesses, cable assemblies, connectors, and electrical interconnect systems across our autonomous underwater vehicle platform.

This is a hands‑on individual‑contributor role with end‑to‑end ownership. You will own harnessing and connector systems throughout the vehicle, from initial architecture and requirements through detailed design, CAD, prototype build support, integration, verification, field testing, production support, failure analysis, and continued improvement after deployment.

This role sits at the intersection of electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, manufacturing, and test. You will be responsible for both the electrical behavior of the vehicle interconnect system and its mechanical implementation, including routing, packaging, strain relief, vibration, thermal exposure, environmental sealing, maintainability, and manufacturability.

You will be expected to design real hardware, create production‑ready documentation, make technical decisions, mentor other engineers, and remain accountable for the performance and reliability of the vehicle harnessing and connector system. There are no organizational handoffs when a difficult problem crosses the boundary between harnessing, electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, software, or test engineering.

• Serve as the Responsible Engineer for vehicle wiring harnesses, cable assemblies, connectors, and interconnect systems.
• Develop greenfield harness and connector designs from initial requirements and architecture through field‑tested, production‑ready implementation.
• Own harness architecture, connector selection, wire and cable selection, grounding and shielding definitions, current ratings, routing, packaging, validation requirements, production release, and sustaining improvements.
• Personally create harness drawings, cable assembly drawings, wiring diagrams, connector documentation, BOMs, manufacturing documentation, and release packages.
• Design harnesses that support power distribution, high‑current vehicle harnessing, digital communications, sensors, actuators, embedded compute, motor controllers, battery systems, and vehicle‑level electrical interfaces.
• Select and integrate connectors, backshells, cable assemblies, wire, shielding, jackets, retention features, and related interconnect hardware for demanding vehicle environments.
• Own harness routing and packaging, including strain relief, clamp placement, bend radius, abrasion and chafing protection, connector access, service loops, assembly sequence, maintainability, and manufacturability.
• Evaluate harness designs for electrical performance, including voltage drop, current carrying capacity, derating, thermal rise, connector margin, grounding, bonding, shielding, isolation, EMI/EMC behavior, signal integrity, and noise susceptibility.
• Review board schematics and connector pinouts and help maintain harness‑ and connector‑related aspects of PCBA designs.
• Work closely with Avionics, Power Electronics, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, and Test Engineering to define and validate vehicle electrical and mechanical interfaces.
• Bring…