Vehicle Integration Engineer, Autonomous Systems

Cssmerge; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 238,000 - 301,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k)

Equity

Sick Time and Paid Holidays

Parental Leave

Job summary

Atoms in San Francisco is hiring a Staff Vehicle Integration Engineer to harden drive-by-wire, compute, and electrical systems under our autonomy stack. You will own vehicle-level integration from prototype bring-up to fleet deployment, with hands-on debugging and documentation to support future work.

You will lead bring-up/calibration, validate across CAN, Automotive Ethernet, and high/low voltage, and drive DFMEA processes while collaborating with hardware and firmware teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent hands-on experience is required.
• 8+ years integrating, validating, and debugging electrical and electromechanical systems on prototype and production vehicles in autonomous vehicles, EVs, or at an automotive OEM or supplier.
• 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, LIN, Automotive Ethernet (100/1000BASE-T1), and DTCs) and the tooling that goes with them.
• Experience integrating and debugging vehicle actuation interfaces: steering, braking, and propulsion, or comparable motor-control and powertrain systems.
• Experience integrating compute into vehicles: carrier boards, high-speed differential signaling, power sequencing, and thermal management.
• Working knowledge of high-voltage EV systems: battery packs, battery management, contactors and precharge, isolation, and of EV charging standards.
• Disciplined root-cause methodology (8D, DFMEA, fault tree analysis), and the technical writing ability to turn findings into schematics, test reports, and procedures colleagues can follow.
• 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-Level Integration: Take end-to-end ownership of how drive-by-wire, onboard compute, power distribution, and vehicle networks integrate on our vehicle platforms, from prototype bring-up through fleet deployment.
• System-Level Debugging & Hardening: Own triage and root-cause analysis across harnesses, connectors, power distribution, actuation interfaces, and compute, including physical failure analysis where root cause demands it. Convert findings into design changes, containment actions, and documented corrective actions that measurably raise fleet reliability and uptime.
• Platform Bring-Up & Calibration: Lead the electrical and compute bring-up of new vehicle platforms, including interface analysis of the base vehicle (CAN, CAN FD, Automotive Ethernet, power states, high-and-low-voltage architecture), gap analysis against L4 requirements, and clear requirements back to our drive-by-wire, board, and firmware teams.
• Validation & Test Infrastructure: Define and execute vehicle-level validation covering power states, fault injection, degraded-mode and fail-operational behavior, thermal, signal integrity, and connector durability. Design and build the breakout boxes, test harnesses, vehicle breadboards, and HIL benches that give software and autonomy teams a safe, instrumented platform to develop against.
• High-Voltage & Energy Systems: Own the high-and-low-voltage boundaries, redundant low-voltage power distribution and budgets, and battery and charging integration across the fleet, including depot charging and the high-voltage safety practices our engineers and technicians work under every day.
• Deployment & Fleet Execution: Serve as the primary technical anchor at test and deployment sites during critical rollouts, with some travel.
• Engineering Standards & Documentation: Establish automotive-grade conventions for schematics, circuit naming, labeling, harness documentation, and change control, and hold internal teams and suppliers to them. Lead design reviews, DFMEA, and 8D, and bring engineers and technicians up to speed on the platform and how to troubleshoot it.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Autonomous vehicles

E/E architecture

System bring-up

Root-cause analysis

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical/Computer/Mechatronics

Tools

CANalyzer/CANoe

Vehicle Spy

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Job description

Atoms in San Francisco is hiring a Staff Vehicle Integration Engineer to harden drive-by-wire, compute, and electrical systems under our autonomy stack. You will own vehicle-level integration from prototype bring-up to fleet deployment, with hands-on debugging and documentation to support future work.

You will lead bring-up/calibration, validate across CAN, Automotive Ethernet, and high/low voltage, and drive DFMEA processes while collaborating with hardware and firmware teams.