Autonomous Vehicle Integration Technician

Top Echelon Software, LLC; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Top Echelon Software, LLC in Austin, TXHybrid is seeking a Vehicle Integration Technician to retrofit hardware on autonomous industrial vehicles. You will adapt platform hardware, build wiring harnesses, and install sensors and controllers across multiple machine types.

Travel to customer sites (about 25%) is required as you join our early Austin team, helping write deployment playbooks for autonomy in the US and supporting the high-velocity rollout of 200+ platforms.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience retrofit kits into autonomous machines.
• Hands-on builder with automotive, robotics, or heavy machinery background.
• Bachelor's degree required; willingness to travel to customer sites.

Responsibilities

• Adapt platform hardware to fit each machine model and engineer the final fit.
• Build and install wiring harnesses, connectors, mounts, sensors, and actuators; perform checks.
• Visit customer sites to scope retrofit needs and manage installation, commissioning, and testing.
• Troubleshoot integration across electrical, mechanical, and software layers and request changes.
• Document issues to improve Vehicle Adapter Kits; ECU/embedded programming is a plus.

Skills

Electrical wiring

CAN/J1939

System integration

Troubleshooting

Hands-on builder

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ECU programming

CAN bus

Wiring harnesses

Job description

Top Echelon Software, LLC in Austin, TXHybrid is seeking a Vehicle Integration Technician to retrofit hardware on autonomous industrial vehicles. You will adapt platform hardware, build wiring harnesses, and install sensors and controllers across multiple machine types.

Travel to customer sites (about 25%) is required as you join our early Austin team, helping write deployment playbooks for autonomy in the US and supporting the high-velocity rollout of 200+ platforms.