Director, Vehicle Integration & Validation

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 254,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, &

401(k)

Equity

Sick Time, Unlimited Flexible Time Off

Paid Holidays

Paid Parental Leave

Pre-Tax Commuter Benefit

Team lunch in SoMa

Job summary

Atoms is hiring a Director of Vehicle Integration to lead the group that validates software against real vehicle interfaces and to enable cheap, fast re-spins through modular hardware-in-the-loop and bench capabilities.

You’ll coach senior engineers and technicians, owning the architecture, bring-up, and commissioning across vehicle programs while collaborating with robotics, hardware, and OEM partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field is required.
• 3+ years of relevant experience including 3+ years leading engineers.
• Experience owning vehicle integration from architecture through fleet deployment; accountable for installation, validation, and road support.
• Experience on L3/L4 automated driving or production ADAS programs is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Off-vehicle validation: Own hardware-in-the-loop and bench capability that validates software against real vehicle interfaces; build modular and reusable harnesses, power, sensor interfaces, and logging paths.
• Integration architecture: Own the autonomy integration on the development fleet, including electrical architecture, harnesses, mounting, sensor and compute placement, power, and drive-by-wire interfaces; manage fault handling and degraded-mode behavior.
• On-vehicle bring-up and commissioning: Own build instructions, drawings, calibration procedures, and production scripts for development vehicle builds and retrofits; gate commissioning.
• Cross-functional interfaces: Collaborate with robotics, vehicle operations, hardware engineering, manufacturing, and OEM/supplier partners.

Skills

Vehicle integration ownership

Hardware-in-the-loop

Electrical architecture

CAN/CAN-FD/LIN/Automotive Ethernet

Drive-by-wire integration

Documentation and repeatable processes

Leadership of engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Computer Engineering, CS, Robotics or related field

Tools

NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin/Thor

DRIVE OS

QNX

Job description

Atoms is hiring a Director of Vehicle Integration to lead the group that validates software against real vehicle interfaces and to enable cheap, fast re-spins through modular hardware-in-the-loop and bench capabilities.

You’ll coach senior engineers and technicians, owning the architecture, bring-up, and commissioning across vehicle programs while collaborating with robotics, hardware, and OEM partners.