Staff Vehicle Build Engineer: Hardware & Fleet Control

Atoms; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k)

Equity

Sick Time & Holidays

Parental Leave

Pre-Tax Commuter Benefit

Team lunch in SF office

Job summary

Atoms is hiring a Staff Engineering Technician in our San Francisco HQ shop. You will own how development vehicles are built, design fixtures and assemblies for repeatable builds, and manage fleet configuration and hardware revision control. This role leads escalations on cross-disciplinary failures and interfaces with hardware design.

Based in SF, you’ll join a fast-paced environment, set workmanship standards, and drive design-for-manufacturability and serviceability with the engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in vehicle integration, prototype build, or electromechanical systems.
• Demonstrated ownership of a build process.
• Deep wire harness and vehicle electrical expertise, including harness architecture, terminal and connector selection, and grounding schemes.

Responsibilities

• Own the vehicle build standard, including process, workmanship criteria, checklists, and sign-off.
• Design and build fixtures, jigs, and kitted assemblies to make builds repeatable.
• Own fleet configuration control and hardware revision tracking.
• Serve as final escalation on cross-disciplinary vehicle failures across mechanical, electrical, and firmware layers.
• Drive manufacturability and serviceability changes with hardware and autonomy engineering.
• Plan and sequence retrofit campaigns, including tooling, parts, and downtime.
• Set training path and workmanship standards for junior and senior technicians.
• Track build time and defect rates, and act on them.
• Represent shop constraints in program planning.
• Help maintain the shop space, keeping it clean and organized.

Skills

Vehicle integration

Prototype build

Electromechanical systems

Build process ownership

Debug leadership

Training others

Multi-project management

CAN tooling

Tools

Solidworks

CAD tools

Job description

Atoms is hiring a Staff Engineering Technician in our San Francisco HQ shop. You will own how development vehicles are built, design fixtures and assemblies for repeatable builds, and manage fleet configuration and hardware revision control. This role leads escalations on cross-disciplinary failures and interfaces with hardware design.

Based in SF, you’ll join a fast-paced environment, set workmanship standards, and drive design-for-manufacturability and serviceability with the engineering teams.