Millwright / Welding / Mechanical

Mechanical Integration Technician Santa Clara, CA

About the Role We are seeking a hands-on, detail-oriented Engineering Technician with a strong background in mechanical/electrical prototyping, custom fabrication, and creative assembly building. The ideal candidate is a "maker" at heart—someone who builds, customizes, and experiments with machines, whether that's cars, motorcycles, drones, RC vehicles, or robotics. In this role, you'll work closely with our engineering team to bring cutting-edge autonomous vehicle systems to life through rapid prototyping, integration, testing, and iterative design. The right candidate has leveraged their creativity to develop custom assemblies or functional systems, either in a personal setting or professionally, and thrives in a fast-paced R&D environment. This is a full-time, onsite role based in Santa Clara, CA, requiring five days per week in the office.

What You'll Do Build, modify, and maintain prototype autonomous vehicles, test platforms or benches.

Integrate mechanical and electrical components such as sensors, actuators, compute units, and power systems.

Fabricate brackets, mounts, and custom parts using rapid prototyping tools (3D printers, laser cutters, welders, etc.).

Build and route wire harnesses, perform soldering/crimping, and troubleshoot electrical connections.

Execute test plans and collect system performance data during in-lab and on-road testing.

Maintain the prototyping garage/shop, ensuring tools, materials, and components are organized and safe to use

Diagnosing and resolving mechanical, electrical, or system integration issues

What We're Looking For Proven hands-on experience building or customizing vehicles, motorcycles, robotic systems, drones, or RC vehicles

Demonstrated ability to create custom mechanical or electrical assemblies from scratch or adapt existing systems creatively

Comfort working with mechanical tools, electrical prototyping equipment, and basic fabrication tools.

Ability to work from engineering drawings, rough sketches, or verbal guidance to produce working assemblies

Ability to create parts in CAD (SolidWorks or NX preferred)

Bonus Points Experience in an R&D lab, automotive/motorsports shop, or hardware prototyping environment

Skills in welding, machining/CNC, or composite fabrication (fiberglass, carbon fiber, etc.)

Familiarity with automotive communication protocols (CAN, LIN) and diagnostic tools

Experience documenting builds and collaborating through platforms like Confluence, or Jira

As the first and only company to achieve fully driverless middle-mile commercial deliveries, Gatik holds a unique and defensible position in the AV industry, with a clear trajectory toward sustainable growth and profitability.

We have delivered complete, proprietary AV technology - an integration of software and hardware - to enable earlier successes for our clients in constrained Level 4 autonomy. Given extensive knowledge of Gatik's well-defined, fixed route ODDs and hybrid architecture, we are able to hyper-optimize our models with exponentially less data, establish gate-keeping mechanisms to maintain explainability, and ensure continued safety of the system for unmanned operations.