Senior Vehicle Integration Engineer for Autonomous Platforms

Cssmerge; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 176,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Atoms is seeking a Senior Vehicle Integration Engineer in San Francisco to own bring‑up and sensor calibration across autonomous platforms. You will guide the sequence from mechanical completion to first autonomous engagement and fleet release, building calibration/test infrastructure for repeatable production use.

You will own intrinsic/extrinsic calibration for lidar, radar, camera, IMU, and GNSS, and define verification methods to catch drift early.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years in integrating, validating, and debugging electrical and electromechanical systems on prototype and production vehicles in autonomous vehicles, EVs, or at an automotive OEM or supplier, with a proven track record of technical ownership.
• Deep hands-on expertise in vehicle E/E architecture: low‑voltage power distribution and redundancy, wire harness and connector systems for both low and high voltage, and the failure modes that come with them.
• Fluency with automotive networks and diagnostics (CAN, CAN FD, Automotive Ethernet) and the supporting tooling, including Vector CANalyzer, Vehicle Spy, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers.
• Experience integrating and debugging vehicle actuation interfaces: steering, braking, and propulsion, or comparable motor‑control and powertrain systems, including redundant, degraded, and fail‑operational behavior.
• Experience integrating compute into vehicles: carrier boards, high‑speed differential signaling, power sequencing, and thermal management.
• Proven ability to navigate highly ambiguous environments, self‑direct technical problem‑solving, and clearly communicate technical trade‑offs to cross‑functional partners.
• Ability to work onsite five days a week in San Francisco, travel to test and deployment sites, and hold a valid driver’s license with a clean driving record.

Responsibilities

• Vehicle Bring‑Up: Own the bring‑up sequence end to end: power‑on, firmware and software load, device enumeration, systems validation, first autonomous engagement validation and the sign‑off that releases a vehicle to the fleet.
• Sensor Calibration: Own intrinsic and extrinsic calibration across the full sensor suite of lidar, radar, camera, IMU, and GNSS. Build and maintain the physical calibration environment, define what "in calibration" means, how it is verified, and how a drifting or incorrect calibration is caught early.
• Test Plans & Validation: Author the test plans and procedures our fleet is validated against, execute them, analyze the resulting data, and report results clearly enough to act on.
• Cross‑Domain Diagnosis: Resolve ambiguous failures across the mechanical, electrical, firmware, and software boundary, and hand the owning engineer reproduction steps and evidence rather than a symptom.
• Test Hardware & Tooling: Specify, build, and maintain the benches, harness breakouts, and diagnostic tooling the process depends on, building what does not yet exist.
• Design Feedback: Feed what you learn back into hardware design (e.g. sensor mounting and tolerance stack‑ups that make calibration difficult).
• Technician Partnership: Partner with our engineering technicians as customers, who will execute the builds and bring‑up.

Skills

Vehicle integration

Sensor calibration

Diagnostics

Embedded systems

CAN/CAN FD

Automotive Ethernet

Test planning

Ambiguity navigation

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering, or related field

Tools

Vector CANalyzer

Vehicle Spy

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Carrier boards

Power sequencing

Job description

Atoms is seeking a Senior Vehicle Integration Engineer in San Francisco to own bring‑up and sensor calibration across autonomous platforms. You will guide the sequence from mechanical completion to first autonomous engagement and fleet release, building calibration/test infrastructure for repeatable production use.

You will own intrinsic/extrinsic calibration for lidar, radar, camera, IMU, and GNSS, and define verification methods to catch drift early.