Autonomous Vehicle Integration Technician

Aspire Talent Solutions; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Aspire Talent Solutions in Austin is hiring a Vehicle Integration Technician to retrofit autonomous systems onto industrial vehicles, including forklifts, wheel loaders, and diggers. You will install a complete hardware stack and help write deployment playbooks for the US.

The role requires 4+ years in automotive, robotics, autonomous driving, or heavy machinery, with hands-on wiring, CAN, electrical, and mechanical work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 4+ years retrofit experience on industrial vehicles.
• Hands-on builder from automotive, robotics, or heavy machinery.

Responsibilities

• Adapt platform hardware to fit each machine model and engineer the last 10% so it fits.
• Build and install wiring harnesses, connectors, mounting brackets, sensors, and actuators; perform continuity, voltage, power, and CAN/J1939 checks.
• Visit customer sites to scope retrofit needs and lead installation, commissioning, debugging, and acceptance testing.
• Troubleshoot integration issues across electrical, mechanical, and software layers; communicate changes to platform engineering teams.
• Record build issues and lessons learned to improve Vehicle Adapter Kits; ECU or embedded programming experience is a plus.

Skills

Electrical systems

Mechanical assembly

CAN/J1939

Embedded programming

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Aspire Talent Solutions in Austin is hiring a Vehicle Integration Technician to retrofit autonomous systems onto industrial vehicles, including forklifts, wheel loaders, and diggers. You will install a complete hardware stack and help write deployment playbooks for the US.

The role requires 4+ years in automotive, robotics, autonomous driving, or heavy machinery, with hands-on wiring, CAN, electrical, and mechanical work.