Master Automotive Diagnostic Technician – Engineering Track

MAKS Enterprises; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

MAKS Enterprises seeks an experienced Master Automotive Diagnostic Technician to join our engineering-focused team in Los Angeles. You will diagnose complex electrical and electronic issues, work on Chrysler/GM/Ford platforms, and collaborate with Engineering on failure analysis and new repair development.

The role emphasizes deep understanding of modules, circuits, and communications, with opportunities to advance toward advanced electronics diagnostics and engineering tracks.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional automotive diagnostic and repair experience.
• Strong automotive electrical and diagnostic ability.
• Experience reading wiring diagrams and electrical schematics.
• Experience with vehicle networks and CAN bus.
• Willingness to learn circuit-board diagnostics and bench testing.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose complex electrical, electronic, drivability, and module-related vehicle issues.
• Read wiring diagrams and schematics to guide repairs and testing.
• Perform electrical testing with multimeters, oscilloscopes, and test benches.
• Assist Engineering with failure analysis, bench testing, and new repair development.
• Document findings and contribute to technical training materials.

Skills

Automotive diagnostics

Electrical fundamentals

Troubleshooting

Wiring diagrams

CAN bus networking

Tools

wiTECH

GDS2/MDI

IDS/FDRS

Job description

MAKS is a globally recognized leader in rebuilding and remanufacturing automotive electronic modules, including TIPMs, ECMs/PCMs, BCMs, ABS modules, and other critical vehicle control systems. We serve consumers, repair shops, dealerships, and commercial partners across North America.

Our work sits at the intersection of automotive diagnostics, electronics, and engineering. We don't just replace parts—we investigate failures, understand how vehicle systems interact, develop repair solutions, and continually expand the range of automotive electronics we can successfully remanufacture.

We're a growing company that values people who are technically curious, willing to dig into difficult problems, and excited to keep learning.

Our core values are:

Trailblazers — We challenge the status quo and embrace innovation.

Value of Reputation — We earn trust through the quality of our work and how we treat people.

Accountability — We take ownership and follow through.

Empathy — We consider the experience and perspective of others.

Evolve or Bust — We keep learning, improving, and adapting.

About the Role

MAKS is looking for an experienced Master Automotive Diagnostic Technician with deep expertise in Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep/Ram, General Motors, and/or Ford vehicles, particularly in electrical systems, advanced diagnostics, scan tools, vehicle communication networks, and electronic control modules.

This is not a traditional line-technician position.

Our ideal candidate may be someone who has spent years—or an entire career—becoming exceptional at automotive diagnostics and is ready for the next technical chapter of their career.

Maybe you're the technician everyone brings the difficult electrical problem to after other people have already replaced parts. You understand vehicle systems, know how to use service information and diagnostic equipment, and can logically work through a problem when the scanner doesn't simply tell you what's wrong.

But you may also be ready to move beyond the traditional cycle of repair orders, heavy mechanical work, and day-to-day dealership or shop production.

We want to take that automotive knowledge and put it to work in a different way.

At MAKS, you'll work hands-on with vehicles when necessary, but much of your work will focus on diagnostics, electronic modules, circuit boards, bench testing, failure analysis, and engineering development.

You'll partner closely with our Engineering team to investigate difficult failures, reproduce vehicle problems, diagnose modules at a deeper level, validate repairs, and help develop entirely new remanufacturing capabilities.

For the right person, this position provides a path from Master Automotive Technician → Advanced Electronics Diagnostics → Engineering Support and Development.

You do not need to already be an electrical engineer or an expert in component-level PCB repair. We can develop those skills.

What we're looking for is exceptional automotive diagnostic ability, strong electrical fundamentals, technical curiosity, and the aptitude and desire to understand what is happening inside the module—not just what the vehicle is telling you about it.

What You'll Do

• Diagnose complex electrical, electronic, drivability, communication, and module-related vehicle issues.
• Use OEM and aftermarket scan tools to analyze DTCs, live data, module communication, sensor inputs, actuator outputs, and vehicle behavior.
• Read and interpret wiring diagrams, electrical schematics, connector views, pinouts, service information, and technical documentation.
• Perform electrical testing using multimeters, oscilloscopes, scan tools, power supplies, bench equipment, and other diagnostic tools.
• Diagnose opens, shorts, voltage drops, poor grounds, intermittent faults, parasitic draws, network faults, and communication issues.
• Troubleshoot CAN bus and other vehicle communication/network problems.
• Diagnose issues involving ECM/PCM, BCM, TIPM/PDC, TCM, ABS, SRS, power distribution, and other electronic control modules.
• Perform or assist with module programming, flashing, coding, configuration, initialization, relearns, and vehicle/module setup.
• Determine whether a concern originates within the electronic module, vehicle wiring, another module, a sensor/actuator, software/programming, power/ground, communication network, or another system.
• Reproduce difficult customer and field-reported failures on vehicles and test platforms.
• Work directly with Engineering to determine why a module failed and how that failure can be identified, reproduced, repaired, and tested.
• Learn to diagnose automotive electronics at the PCB, circuit, component, and signal level.
• Develop hands-on skills working with circuit boards, electronic components, soldering/rework, oscilloscopes, power supplies, and bench-testing equipment.
• Compare known-good and failed modules to help isolate electrical, electronic, software, and component-level differences.
• Help translate real-world dealership diagnostic processes into repeatable bench tests and internal diagnostic procedures.
• Assist Engineering with test fixture development, vehicle simulation, product validation, and new repair development.
• Document diagnostic findings, measurements, test results, failure patterns, and technical observations.
• Help develop troubleshooting guides, repair procedures, test procedures, and technical training materials.
• Serve as a technical resource connecting what happens on the vehicle with what happens inside the electronic module.

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional automotive diagnostic and repair experience, preferably at a dealership, specialty diagnostic shop, or Master Technician level.
• Advanced experience with Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep/Ram, GM/Chevrolet/GMC/Cadillac, and/or Ford/Lincoln vehicles.
• Exceptional automotive electrical and diagnostic ability.
• Demonstrated ability to solve difficult problems through testing and logical diagnosis rather than parts replacement.
• Advanced proficiency with automotive scan tools and diagnostic software.
• Strong ability to read and interpret wiring diagrams and electrical schematics.
• Experience diagnosing electronic control modules and vehicle network/communication issues.
• Strong understanding of DTCs, sensor inputs, actuator outputs, power and ground circuits, voltage drop, and module-to-module communication.
• Experience using digital multimeters and electrical diagnostic equipment.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Ability to clearly explain how and why you arrived at a diagnosis.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality.
• Genuine interest in learning circuit-board diagnostics and automotive electronics at a deeper level.
• Willingness and aptitude to learn oscilloscope diagnostics, component-level electronics, PCB troubleshooting, soldering/rework, and bench testing if these aren't already strengths.

Preferred Qualifications

These are advantages, but we don't expect the right automotive diagnostician to already have all of them.

• Manufacturer Master Technician or equivalent certification with Stellantis/Chrysler, GM, or Ford.
• Experience with OEM diagnostic platforms such as wiTECH, GDS2/MDI, IDS/FDRS, or similar manufacturer tools.
• Experience with module programming, flashing, coding, configuration, and relearn procedures.
• Advanced CAN bus/network diagnostic experience.
• Experience using oscilloscopes for automotive waveform diagnostics.
• Experience with bench testing automotive electronic modules.
• Experience working with PCBs, soldering, electronic components, or component-level diagnostics.
• Understanding of components such as resistors, capacitors, diodes, transistors, MOSFETs, relays, and integrated circuits.
• Familiarity with electronic schematics beyond standard vehicle wiring diagrams.
• Previous experience working alongside engineers, product-development teams, or technical training teams.

You're Probably a Strong Fit If...

You're the person in the shop who gets handed the vehicle after someone says:

"We've already replaced everything it could be, and it still doesn't work."

You don't immediately reach for another part.

You pull up the wiring diagram. You look at the data. You check powers and grounds. You test the circuit. You look at what the modules are saying to each other. You determine what's actually happening and work backward until the evidence leads you to the failure.

That's the mindset we're looking for.

We can teach an exceptional automotive diagnostician more about circuit boards, electronic components, bench testing, and engineering processes.

It's much harder to teach someone the years of real-world vehicle knowledge and diagnostic instincts that come from solving genuinely difficult automotive problems.

The Engineering Track

This role is particularly well suited for someone who has reached a high level within automotive repair and is asking:

"What's next for me technically?"

At MAKS, the answer doesn't have to be another decade of repair orders.

You'll have the opportunity to take what you've learned diagnosing thousands of vehicles and begin applying it at the module, circuit, component, signal, product, and system level.

Depending on your abilities and interests, your development can include:

• Circuit-board and component-level diagnostics
• Oscilloscope and waveform analysis
• Module architecture and failure analysis
• CAN/LIN communication and reverse engineering
• Bench testing and vehicle simulation
• Root-cause and failure-mode analysis

Our goal is to develop the right person into a valuable technical bridge between real-world automotive diagnostics and automotive electronics engineering.

What Success Looks Like

You'll be successful here if you're the person others turn to when the scanner doesn't provide an obvious answer.

You approach problems logically. You understand how vehicle systems interact. You take measurements instead of guessing. And you want to know why something failed, not simply which part made the symptom disappear.

As you develop, that same diagnostic mindset will move from the vehicle into the module itself.

Instead of asking only:

"Why isn't this vehicle communicating with the ABS module?"

you'll begin asking:

"Why isn't the ABS module communicating? Is the problem in its power supply, CAN transceiver, processor, supporting circuitry, software, or somewhere else—and how can we prove it?"

That's the progression this position is designed to create.

Why Join MAKS?

You've spent years learning how vehicles actually work.

We want to give you somewhere new to take that knowledge.

Instead of spending every day moving from repair order to repair order, you'll have the opportunity to solve recurring automotive electronics problems, work alongside Engineering, investigate failures at a deeper level, and help develop repair solutions that can ultimately solve the same problem for thousands of vehicles.

This is still hands-on technical work—but it's a different kind of hands-on.

It's an opportunity to move from repairing vehicles one at a time to helping engineer solutions to the problems behind them.

MAKS is expanding into new automotive electronic systems and investing heavily in our technical and Engineering capabilities.

If you've become an exceptional automotive diagnostician and are ready to find out how far you can take that knowledge, we'd like to meet you.