Senior/Staff Vehicle Harness Engineer Mountain View, CA

Who we are

The following information provides an overview of the skills, qualities, and qualifications needed for this role.

Gatik, the leader in autonomous middle mile logistics, delivers goods safely and efficiently using its fleet of light & medium-duty trucks.

The company focuses on short-haul, B2B logistics for Fortune 500 customers including Kroger, Walmart, Tyson Foods, Loblaw, Pitney Bowes, Georgia-Pacific, and KBX;

enabling them to optimize their hub-and-spoke supply chain operations, enhance service levels and product flow across multiple locations while reducing labor costs and meeting an unprecedented expectation for faster deliveries.

Gatik’s Class 3-7 autonomous box trucks are commercially deployed in multiple markets including Texas, Arkansas, and Ontario, Canada.

About the Role

Gatik is hiring a Senior / Staff Vehicle Harness Engineer who will be responsible for power and signal distribution on Gatik’s vehicles from concept to production.

This individual will be tasked with creating engineering requirements and specifications for the harnesses as well as collaborating with suppliers and peers to deliver a functioning subsystem.

Your area of expertise is the mechanical integration, fabrication and assembly of harness systems. You are excited being hands-on to apply your engineering knowledge and you are extremely comfortable with hand-tools and rapid prototyping fabrication.

Independence, good communication and documentation skills are key to succeed in this role.

This role is onsite 5 days a week at our Mountain View, CA office.

What You Will Do

• Responsible for vehicle power and signal distribution on the vehicle.
• Create engineering specifications for example requirements, schematics, CAD models, drawings for the vehicle harnesses.
• Take ownership of the Device transmittal (DT) process.
• Provide technical expertise on power, signal and data bus distribution as well as ground specification needed in autonomous vehicles;

for example on GMSL, Automotive Ethernet, CAN, CAN-FD, low voltage high power applications.

• Collaborate with cross functional team members to complete the system specification and fill gaps where needed.
• Collaborate with suppliers / vendors as needed to build prototype and production vehicles.
• Develop and refine tools and methods currently leveraged by the team.
• Mentor junior engineers on the team in the principles of power and signal distribution and best practices.

What We’re Looking For

• BS / MS in Mechanical Engineering or similar engineering discipline (MS preferred).
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with vehicle harnesses.
• Delivered a system to production (preferred - from inception to production).
• Experience in the Automotive, Truck / Transportation and AV industry.
• Experience with advanced vehicle communication standards and requirements for example GMSL, Automotive Ethernet.
• Ability to size and select the appropriate cables, connectors and fuses.
• Ability to design mechanical components supporting the completion of the deliverable e.g. brackets, housings or pass-throughs.
• Experience with CAD and / or drawing software (Solidworks preferred).
• Strong troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Strong computer skills with programming and scripting experience, preferred.

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