Vehicle Integration Technician — Hands-On Build & Test

Atoms; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 74,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid life and disability

401(k)

Paid vacation

HSA

8 paid holidays

Job summary

Atoms in San Francisco is hiring a mid-level Engineering Technician to join the Vehicle Integration team. You will build and retrofit development vehicles, install compute and sensor hardware, and draft first-pass bring-up documentation.

The role requires hands-on mechanics, wiring, and validation of systems, with some after-hours testing onsite. You’ll work under Senior and Staff technicians and grow toward Senior as you gain experience.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on experience in vehicle integration, automotive or EV service, electromechanical assembly, prototype build or fabrication.
• Comfort working on first-of-its-kind builds with little or no documentation, and the drive to figure things out from first principles.
• Experience building and repairing wire harnesses, including crimping, soldering, connector work and continuity testing.
• Ability to read wiring diagrams, schematics, mechanical drawings and BOMs, and to flag when something doesn’t match reality.
• Working knowledge of low-voltage power distribution, fusing, grounding and CAN bus.

Responsibilities

• Build, retrofit and prepare development vehicles from a bare platform through installation, functional checks and sign-off.
• Install and integrate custom compute units, sensors, low-voltage power and vehicle interfaces, following direction from Senior and Staff technicians.
• Build prototype wire harnesses from drawings, and check terminations, pinouts and continuity before install.
• Run hardware and software bring-up on new builds: flash firmware, set up compute and check that sensors and data are working.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot problems across mechanical, electrical, firmware and software using logs, CAN tools and test equipment.

Skills

Vehicle integration

Electrical wiring

Prototype build

Read wiring diagrams

CAN bus knowledge

Troubleshooting

Soldering

Documentation

Field/testing support

Team collaboration

Tools

CAN tools

Oscilloscope

Multimeter

Soldering iron

SolidWorks

CAD

Linux

Python

Job description

Atoms in San Francisco is hiring a mid-level Engineering Technician to join the Vehicle Integration team. You will build and retrofit development vehicles, install compute and sensor hardware, and draft first-pass bring-up documentation.

The role requires hands-on mechanics, wiring, and validation of systems, with some after-hours testing onsite. You’ll work under Senior and Staff technicians and grow toward Senior as you gain experience.