# Sr DRE, Electrical Systems Packaging

Aptera Motors is dedicated to building a future where every journey is powered by the sun. We specialize in creating solar electric vehicles that revolutionize the way we travel, providing sustainable and efficient transportation solutions. Company Culture is built on transparency, ethical treatment of one another, a bias for action, and leading by example. Sr Design Release Engineer, Electrical Systems Packaging Carlsbad, California | Engineering | Full-time About the role Aptera is looking for a Senior Design Release Engineer to own the CAD design, mechanical release, and lifecycle of electrical modules on our solar electric vehicle. You'll package PCBs into enclosures, own enclosure design and tooling, and drive your parts from concept through SOP in CATIA - jumping in hands-on wherever needed in our fast-paced start-up environment. What you'll do Serve as technical lead and single point of accountability for the mechanical/CAD execution of assigned modules, from concept through SOP Package PCBs into enclosures - connector layouts, stack-ups, thermal management, and sealing Own enclosure design and tooling strategy across injection molding, die casting, sheet metal, and machinin

- **Id**: 1100593
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/aptera-sr-engineer-mechanical-design-high-voltage-ev-systems>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Carlsbad, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-21T19:39:15Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T23:01:29Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 49
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2436
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Automotive Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 669530
- **Name**: Aptera
- **Domain**: aptera.us
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/aptera-2>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Rippling

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 85000
- **Max usd**: 161000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 6333

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 49

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-21T22:14:31Z
- Event: open; At: 2026-10-24T10:27:00Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 28
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.627
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 48
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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