Autonomous Vehicle Integration Technician - Robotics

True North Consultants, Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

True North Consultants, Inc. in Austin, TX is seeking a Vehicle Integration Technician to retrofit kits into autonomous industrial machines. The role requires hands-on hardware integration across electrical, mechanical, and CAN systems, with 4+ years of relevant experience.

You will help deploy autonomous platforms on diverse vehicles, including forklifts and loaders, at our new Austin location. You will adapt standard platform hardware, install wiring, and perform comprehensive checks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 3–8 years of experience.
• Open to H1B or OPT transfers.

Responsibilities

• Adapt platform hardware (power distribution, harnesses, sensors, compute, controllers) to fit each machine model.
• 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; lead installation, commissioning, debugging, and acceptance testing.
• Troubleshoot integration across electrical, mechanical, and software layers; issue change requests to platform engineering teams.
• Record build issues and lessons learned to improve Vehicle Adapter Kits; ECU/embedded programming experience is a plus.

Skills

Electrical wiring

Mechanical assembly

CAN/J1939

Autonomous systems

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

ECU programming

Embedded systems

Wiring harnesses

Job description

True North Consultants, Inc. in Austin, TX is seeking a Vehicle Integration Technician to retrofit kits into autonomous industrial machines. The role requires hands-on hardware integration across electrical, mechanical, and CAN systems, with 4+ years of relevant experience.

You will help deploy autonomous platforms on diverse vehicles, including forklifts and loaders, at our new Austin location. You will adapt standard platform hardware, install wiring, and perform comprehensive checks.