Electrical Engineering Tech Lead

Booster; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Booster seeks an Electrical Engineering Manager for its Hardware Engineering team in Mountain View, CA. This role involves leading the selection and integration of electronic components for autonomous vehicles, ensuring their performance and calibration. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience in vehicle electronics, strong troubleshooting skills, and a background in sensor technology. The position requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering. Enjoy a collaborative culture focused on sustainability and diversity.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in building prototype or production vehicles.
• Strong understanding of sensor performance for autonomous vehicles.
• Experience troubleshooting vehicle communication networks like CAN.

Responsibilities

• Lead electronic component selection for autonomous vehicles.
• Champion necessary build documentation for production handoff.
• Manage prototype and bench builds supporting development testing.

Skills

Prototype vehicle development

Sensor technology experience

Software troubleshooting

Electrical integration expertise

Command-line automation

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering

Tools

MatLab/Simulink

Job description

About the Role

As an Electrical Engineering Manager in our Hardware Engineering team you will be responsible for all electronic components on and off the vehicle along with establishing processes needed to bring-up and to calibrate the stack. This means you are closely working with the Systems Engineering team to establish architectures meeting our requirements as well as bringing the system to production, while collaborating with a diverse and multidisciplinary team delivering high quality vehicles. You are following best engineering practices & standards in general and are able to be scrappy when needed to make progress. Your area of expertise is selecting, integrating, connecting and troubleshooting electronics and software bring-up. Even though this is a Manager role, this role still expects all candidates to be hands‑on and to solve technical problems.

This role is onsite 5 days a week at our Mountain View, CA office.

What You Will Do

• Lead electronic components selection required for an Autonomous Vehicle and own the technical definition of these components through the development cycle
• Lead the Hardware system architecture
• Lead the vehicle and component bring-up as well as sensor calibration process by closely collaborating with hardware and software teams
• Lead supplier technical interaction with strategic component suppliers
• Champion necessary build documentation to hand off the NPI team to support vehicle manufacturing at scale
• Manage prototype and bench builds supporting HIL development and testing
• Manage retrofits and/or upgrades for vehicles in operation as well as supporting critical service & maintenance requests for our test vehicles.
• Ensure best practices and engineering standards for installation, integration & verification of automotive electronics, harnesses, electrical integration, etc.
• Trouble‑shoot and root‑cause issues coming up in development and manufacturing together with other engineering teams.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of experience building prototype or small and/or production run series vehicles
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics OR an equivalent field (Master’s degree preferred)
• Extensive experience with sensor technology such as camera, ultrasound, lidar, and radar performance and calibration
• Strong understanding of sensor performance and trade-offs for autonomous vehicle architectures
• Extensive experience with vehicle electronics and harness integration
• Experience in bringing up software and mechatronics systems
• Experience in prototyping and integration in the automotive, trucking, aerospace, robotics, or automation industry
• Ability to write code to automate workflows and leverage command-line tools
• Experience troubleshooting vehicle communication networks like CAN, CAN-FD, LIN
• Experience creating harnesses, soldering and installing electronic components
• Knowledge in MatLab / Simulink (preferred)
• Wiring harness fabrication and installation experience (preferred)
• Experience creating simple PCBs and electronics (preferred)
• Experience programming microcontrollers (preferred)

Taking care of our team

At Gatik we connect people of extraordinary talent and experience to an opportunity to create a more resilient supply chain and contribute to our environment’s sustainability. We are diverse in our backgrounds and perspectives yet united by a bold vision and shared commitment to our values. Our culture emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect and agility.

We at Gatik strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that together we can do great things. We are committed to an inclusive and diverse team. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.