Three decades of engineering
most companies never build in-house.

For more than three decades, Christian Ross has worked at the intersection of mechanical and electrical engineering — designing and delivering electric power steering, braking, propulsion, and sensing systems from concept through validation, sourcing, and full-rate production. It is a career defined not by a single specialty, but by the discipline of making complex electromechanical products actually work at scale.

He began at General Motors in 1991 as a Project Engineer in the Steering Columns & Control Production Electrical Group. There he released the first non-contact steering sensor for GM Stabilitrak and its vehicle security modules, served on the GM Vehicle Security Technical Committee, and was selected as a General Motors Fellow.

At Delphi Steering, he led the industry's first electric power steering validation and manufacturing test procedures, then took ownership of sensor technology, product validation, and supplier quality through a series of full production launches — the point in a program where theory meets the factory floor and problems have to be solved for good.

Over more than a decade at Nexteer Automotive (formerly Delphi), he rose from Electrical Group Manager to Future Engineering Group Manager and Technologist, directing research and development across electronics, embedded software, magnetic sensors, motors, and controls. He developed a business model that cut product overhead by more than 20% on programs generating multi-billion dollars in lifetime sales.

In 2013 he co-founded Halla Mechatronics (now HL Mechatronics), building it into a multi-billion-dollar in lifetime sales automotive R&D enterprise. As VP of Electronics, Platform Software & Cybersecurity, Electromagnetics, Advanced Propulsion & North American Steering Systems, he led an organization of more than 100 people, directed the development of 20+ industry-leading chipsets, architected two new electronic systems that safety-critical steering systems demand, and built an R&D and test facility unrivaled in America — including an ISO 17025-accredited EMC laboratory established from the ground up. He oversaw the team that developed the sensors, electronics, motor electromagnetic designs, and the software controls — producible in America, with a first-of-a-kind electronic architecture not matched in the industry, in high-volume production both domestically and globally.

Across those roles he has been named on more than 20 patents and managed annual budgets exceeding $30M — the scope of responsibility that comes from being trusted to make the calls no one else will.

He has also advised U.S. government agencies — including work with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and federal cybersecurity leadership — on policy and regulatory decisions affecting vehicle cybersecurity and safety, and on keeping directional-control systems and their supply chains free of adversarial dependency.

“My reputation means more to me than a dollar bill.” Christian Ross

Christian grew up around the American plants that built this industry — Saginaw Steering Gear, where his father worked, chief among them. Over his career he watched many of those plants, and the ones he helped build, absorbed and off-shored, their technology carried overseas — the opposite of everything he values. He describes himself as a phoenix rebuilt several times over: each reinvention sharper, more resolved, and more certain of what matters.

Prometheus is his stake in the ground for American engineering integrity. It brings his depth of leadership, technology strategy, and supply-chain expertise directly to OEM and Tier-1 automotive, defense, medical, semiconductor, and robotics organizations — the teams building demanding electromechanical products who need experience that has already been where they are going.

A note on scope: Christian honors a one-year non-compete with his most recent employer, HL Mechatronics. Prometheus offers non-competitive services only.