Electrical Technician

Denken Solutions, Inc.; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Denken Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Lab Technician in Foster City, CA to build and maintain the physical test infrastructure for automotive ECUs and autonomy hardware.

You will own harness designs end-to-end, manage lab inventory, and ensure safety practices while coordinating with design engineers. This on-site role requires hands-on wiring, rack builds, and defect diagnosis.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on in a lab, bench technician, or hardware role with electronics focus.
• Experience wiring harness design: diagrams, pinouts, connectors, backshells.
• Experience racking and cabling servers and network equipment, structured cabling.

Responsibilities

• Design and build wiring harnesses for HIL benches, translate schematics to pinouts, select connectors and wire gauge.
• Rack, stack and wire test assets; install compute nodes, switches and power units; organize cables.
• Own lab operations: inventory, kit parts, track assets, ensure safety and organization; document builds.

Skills

Lab technician

Wiring harness design

Electrical safety

Torque tools

Cabling and rack wiring

Education

Associate degree or technical cert

Tools

Multimeter

Oscilloscope

Crimpers

Bench equipment

Job description

On-Site role

Job Description:

• Our team builds and supports the sensor emulation and test infrastructure that client engineering relies on to validate autonomy hardware and software.
• As a Lab Technician, you will build and maintain that physical infrastructure, designing and kitting wiring harnesses, racking and wiring server infrastructure, and assembling hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test benches used to validate automotive Electronic Control Units (ECUs) and autonomy hardware and systems.
• You will own harness designs end-to-end with guidance from our design engineers, and you will own the lab itself: how it is stocked, organized, and kept running.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build wiring harnesses for HIL test benches and rack builds, translate schematics into pinout diagrams, select connectors, wire gauge, and shielding for signal integrity and durability, then cut, strip, crimp, terminate, and test each harness for continuity, shorts, and correct pinout before installation.
• Rack, stack, and wire test assets - Install compute nodes, network switches, and power units in racks following layout diagrams. Run and organize power and data cables, labeling everything for easy tracking.
• Own day-to-day lab operations, kit and stage parts ahead of builds, maintain inventory of connectors, wire, rack hardware, and consumables, reorder stock before it runs out, track asset tags and serial numbers, keep benches and kitting stations organized and tools calibrated, and enforce ESD and electrical safety practices in the space.
• Troubleshoot hardware faults, diagnose and resolve bad cables, failed PSUs, and loose connections; partner with test and validation engineers to reproduce issues found in CI or manual test runs, and elevate complex failures with clear findings.
• Keep build documentation current, maintain pinout tables, BOMs, wiring diagrams, rack elevations, and build docs, including revision history and known issues.

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years hands-on in a lab, bench technician, or data center hardware role, plus an associate's degree or vocational/technical certification in electronics or electromechanical technology (equivalent hands-on experience considered in lieu of the credential).
• Demonstrated wiring harness design and build experience: creating and reading wiring diagrams and pinout tables, selecting connectors and wire gauge, and crimping/terminating automotive-grade connectors (Molex, Amphenol, Rosenberger, or similar), including backshell assembly and strain relief.
• Experience racking and cabling servers and network equipment - structured cabling, cable management, and power distribution - working independently from rack elevation drawings.
• Track record of running or maintaining a lab, test floor, or hardware stockroom: kitting builds, managing consumable and parts inventory, and keeping a shared space organized without day-to-day direction.
• Proficiency with hand tools, torque tools, crimpers, and bench equipment (multimeter, oscilloscope, power supplies); working knowledge of AC/DC electrical safety and ESD handling. Able to lift and move rack equipment up to 50 lbs.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Direct experience with automotive ECUs, embedded systems, or hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test benches.
• Board-level SMT rework down to 0402 (occasionally 0201) and BGA rework.
• IPC/WHMA-A-620 certification or equivalent training in harness workmanship standards.
• Harness design/CAD tools, 3D CAD in SolidWorks or 3DEXPERIENCE (3DX) CATIA, and PLM in 3DX.
• Comfort with the Linux command line for basic host verification (ping, SSH, checking service status) and scripting basics (Python/Bash) for running simple bring-up or test scripts.

About us:

At our organization, we take our mission and values to heart! We are on a mission to offer more and better jobs all over the world! Our goal is to care for you while you care for our clients and get you paid the highest pay possible. All our associates working with us are expected to embrace our RACE values: R - Results Matter, A- Approachable, C - Care, and E - Emergency i.e. work with a sense of urgency.