Autonomy Vehicle Integration Technician (Hybrid, Austin)

Clear Concepts, Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Clear Concepts, Inc. in Austin, TX is seeking a Vehicle Integration Technician to retrofit autonomous hardware onto industrial vehicles such as forklifts and wheel loaders.

You will join a hands-on team building a silicon-brains platform for intelligent machines, with 25% travel to customer sites and the chance to help deploy autonomy across the US. The role requires 3–8 years of experience, a Bachelor's degree, and the ability to adapt standard hardware to multiple machine models.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 3–8 years of experience in vehicle integration or related field.
• Willingness to travel ~25% to customer sites.

Responsibilities

• Adapt platform hardware (power distribution, harnesses, sensors, compute, controllers) to fit each machine model.
• Build and install wiring harnesses, connectors, mounting brackets, sensors, 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 across electrical, mechanical, and software layers and raise change requests to platform teams.
• Record build issues and lessons to improve Vehicle Adapter Kits; ECU/embedded programming experience is a plus.

Skills

Electrical systems

Mechanical systems

CAN/J1939

Hands-on builder

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ECU programming

CAN bus tools

Job description

Clear Concepts, Inc. in Austin, TX is seeking a Vehicle Integration Technician to retrofit autonomous hardware onto industrial vehicles such as forklifts and wheel loaders.

You will join a hands-on team building a silicon-brains platform for intelligent machines, with 25% travel to customer sites and the chance to help deploy autonomy across the US. The role requires 3–8 years of experience, a Bachelor's degree, and the ability to adapt standard hardware to multiple machine models.