Senior Vehicle Integration Technician: Autonomous EV

ATOMS Careers page; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Disability Insurance

Life Insurance

401(k)

Equity

Unlimited PTO

Paid Holidays

Team lunch

Job summary

Atoms in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Engineering Technician to own the build, retrofit, and readiness of our development vehicles. This is not a standard vehicle technician role; you will take a vehicle from bare platform through installation, functional check, and sign-off, often before a documented procedure exists.

You will work independently to debug complex, cross-disciplinary failures across mechanical, electrical, and firmware layers when documentation is sparse, and you will

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in vehicle integration or automotive service.
• Ability to troubleshoot from first principles in unstructured engineering environments.
• Ability to read wiring diagrams, schematics, mechanical drawings, and BOMs.
• Working knowledge of vehicle electrical systems, including low-voltage power distribution, fusing, grounding, connectors, and CAN bus.
• Experience writing procedures or documentation that others work from.

Responsibilities

• Take vehicle builds from bare platforms through installation, functional check, and sign-off.
• Integrate custom compute units and complex sensor stacks.
• Lead vehicle retrofits and maintain as-built records.
• Independently execute complex hardware-software bring-up and debug sessions.
• Triage and resolve frontline engineering issues, identifying root causes for intermittent electrical or firmware faults.
• Write work instructions and checklists for junior technicians.
• Coordinate scheduled service and vehicle preparation for test.
• Train junior technicians and review their work.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional engineering teams to drive design-for-serviceability improvements.
• Help maintain our shop space, keeping the space clean and organized.

Skills

Vehicle integration

Electrical systems

CAN bus

Diagnostics

Schematic reading

Tools & meters

Linux CLI

CAD / SolidWorks

Tools

Multimeter

Oscilloscope

Soldering iron

SolidWorks

CAN tooling

Job description

Atoms in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Engineering Technician to own the build, retrofit, and readiness of our development vehicles. This is not a standard vehicle technician role; you will take a vehicle from bare platform through installation, functional check, and sign-off, often before a documented procedure exists.

You will work independently to debug complex, cross-disciplinary failures across mechanical, electrical, and firmware layers when documentation is sparse, and you will