Car Electronics Installer

Best Buy; Champaign (IL); On-site; USD 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Employee discount

Retirement resources

Well-being support

Job summary

Best Buy in Champaign, IL is hiring a Car Electronics Installer (Autotech Agent) to install car electronics and share product recommendations with customers in-store. You’ll need a valid driver’s license, complete trainings, and maintain a safe driving record.

This role offers opportunities to advance within the Autotech track. Responsibilities include installing stereos, cameras, remote starts, and other devices, using guides to ensure compatibility, and delivering high‑quality customer

Qualifications

• Preferred: prior experience installing car electronics.

Responsibilities

• Install car electronics (stereos, cameras, remote starts, amplifiers) in vehicles.
• Identify compatible products using guides and ensure fit.
• Verify vehicle make/model and flag any compatibility issues.
• Provide excellent customer service.
• Complete required trainings and certifications.

Skills

Prior experience

Job description

As a Car Electronics Installer, you’ll install new technology into customers’ vehicles in the installation bay of our local Best Buy store. You’ll also share advice, best practices and product recommendations with customers and other employees. If you have a passion for cars and tech, we’ll provide the trainings and certifications you need to perform at an expert level. Internally, this role is known as an Autotech Agent, and it provides opportunities to advance to Autotech Agent Level 2.

What you’ll do

• Install car electronics, including T-harness remote starts, stereos, speakers, dash cameras, backup cameras, amplifiers and in-dash units
• Use provided guides to identify compatible mobile electronic products and complete installation projects
• Verify vehicle make and model and communicate any compatibility concerns prior to installation
• Provide a high level of customer service
• Complete required trainings and certifications
• Current, valid driver’s license
• Have and maintain a driving record that meets Best Buy’s safety standards (e.g., minimal number of violations/accidents)

Preferred qualifications

• Prior experience installing car electronics

What’s in it for you

We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. Best Buy offers a range of benefits to support your overall well-being and provide support as you need it, especially at key moments in your life.

• Competitive pay
• Great employee discount
• Financial savings and retirement resources
• Support for your physical and mental well‑being

Best Buy provides different types of leaves of absence (LOA) and potential pay sources to employees based on eligibility. The length of your LOA depends on your situation, where you live, your full-time or part-time employment status, and federal and state regulations. Intermittent or reduced-schedule leave is also available for certain medical or family care leaves. Paid time off (vacation or PTO) is offered to full-time and part-time employees based on work location, employment status, salary or hourly status (exempt/non-exempt), and years of continued or bridged service.

Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results. For more information about our incentive pay plans, including eligibility, please refer to our Incentive Programs Summary .

For more information about benefits, LOA and paid time off, please refer to our Benefits Guide .

About us

As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.

Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.

Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.

Application deadline

Minimum of 5 days from the posting date. You can find that date above the job title at the top of the page.

Location Number 000046 Champaign IL Store

Address 2117 N Prospect Ave

City Champaign

Pay Range $16.22 - $21.9 /hr

Best Buy offers a range of benefits to support your overall well‑being, as outlined in the Benefits Guide . Eligibility may vary.