Team Lead Engineer - Design System

Design the systems that make guest experiences unforgettable by taking technical ownership of onboard entertainment systems for ride vendors. As an Onboard Systems Lead Engineer at Holovis, you’ll lead the engineering and integration of audio, lighting, and interactivity packages onto vehicles and other moving objects, working closely with ride vendors and theme park owners to ensure the technical and creative intent of a project is met.

Responsibilities include:

• Strong experience designing and integrating onboard systems (such as audio, lighting, sensors, interactive elements) in ride vehicles or other mobile/harsh operating environments.
• Leading integration from concept through to construction design, making clear trade-offs around guest-facing performance (audio quality, lighting effects, interactivity), reliability, maintainability, weight/space constraints and cost.
• Setting the standard for documentation quality, producing and reviewing schematics, wiring/harness drawings, mounting details, specifications, BOMs and installation build packs.
• Enjoying leading day-to-day technical coordination, working with project management, ride vendors, and cross-functional engineering teams through fabrication, installation, commissioning and handover.
• Applying onboard vehicle systems engineering, using a vehicle-integration mindset found in industries such as automotive, aerospace, rail, defence, marine, and other harsh-environment platforms.
• Combining solid engineering and leadership experience with great decision making and stakeholder skills.
• Strong planning skills, balancing multiple priorities, managing technical risk, and supporting delivery to scope, schedule and budget.
• Understanding how wayside show systems intersect with onboard audio, lighting, and interactivity to create robust, synchronised guest experiences.
• Leading the creation and refinement of requirements, concept, schematic and detailed design packages for onboard systems, including audio, lighting and interactivity architectures, vibration, component selection, signal/control interfaces, and vehicle integration constraints.
• Owning documentation quality through installation covering wiring/harnessing, grounding/bonding, mechanical mounting, labelling, and service procedures suitable for ride vendor build and site support.
• Creating and approving audio-focused onboard designs, covering amplification, loudspeaker selection, and media playback/show-control interfaces (e.g., Alcorn McBride, Simon Kaloi or equivalent) to meet the attraction’s technical and creative intent.
• Owning and driving the project test strategy by creating verification validation plans that cover guest-facing performance, electrical safety, vibration and integration testing on vehicle builds (including FAT/SAT).
• Partnering with ride vendors, partners and owners to ensure smooth delivery from design through commissioning.
• Able to travel to client sites globally.

We value pragmatic problem-solving and engineering discipline, especially when working across teams, suppliers and owners. We work at the intersection of engineering, technology and story, building complex solutions that must perform 365 days a year for thousands of guests per hour, in real world conditions. We’re a team of engineers, technologists, and delivery professionals who take pride in building systems that are cutting-edge, memorable, engaging and robust.

Apply now and tell us about a project where you led an onboard or vehicle-mounted systems design end-to-end; how you made key trade-offs, coordinated with vendors, and drove integration testing and verification to a confident handover.