Engineering Technician

Engineering Technician

Onsite in Foster City, CA | 5 days in office. The team is responsible for building and maintaining a variety of test assets to validate the design of our autonomous vehicle. As the Engineering Technician, you will support the build and maintenance of these custom machines to enable software simulation. This role is essential and fundamental to the execution stage of the autonomous software development program, ensuring that the simulation and test infrastructure operate predictably at all times. We are looking for someone who is comfortable with building and maintaining complex systems, and excited about developing new ways to support a rapidly moving R&D organization.

Responsibilities:

• Support and track various configurations and generations of test platforms for vehicle simulation and software test platform.
• Assemble custom hardware to enable Hardware-in-the-Loop testing of software builds.
• Use commercially available, off-the-shelf components to build computers.
• Integrate network and vehicle system components in server racks.
• Diagnose, troubleshoot, and repair test hardware/equipment.
• Build cable harnesses based on diagrams/drawings.
• Occasionally move computer equipment weighing up to 50 pounds with assistance.
• Work with engineering teams to troubleshoot complex issues.
• Create and track tickets within ticketing system to address problems, incidents and changes of hardware, and provide details of work performed.
• Coordinate with cross functional teams for parts receiving, installs, upgrades, and decommissioning projects.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience.
• Demonstrated ability to use general shop, automotive, and diagnostic tools (DMM, Oscilloscope, Harnessing Tools, etc.).
• Experience with building and troubleshooting cable harnessing and familiarity with cable management.
• Experience with building/troubleshooting/diagnosing computers/computer components, etc.
• Working knowledge of computer and networking hardware.
• Excellent organizational and documentation skills.
• Ability to lift 25-30 pound boxes.
• Ability to crawl/bend to work on low ground wiring as needed.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience with Google suite, Microsoft Office, JIRA, Confluence or similar programs.
• Knowledge of automotive electrical systems.
• Experience in running scripts and working with Linux based systems.
• B.S. in Engineering (Bonus Qualification).

About us: At our organization, we take our mission and values to heart! We are on a mission to offer more and better jobs all over the world! Our goal is to care for you while you care for our clients and get you paid the highest pay possible. All our associates working with us are expected to embrace our RACE values: R - Results Matter, A- Approachable, C - Care, and E - Emergency i.e. work with a sense of urgency.