Staff Harness Engineer
Gatik AIAbout the role
Who we are:
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 Lead Vehicle Harness Engineer who will be responsible for power and signal distribution on Gatik’s vehicles. 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 love getting 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 at least 4 days a week at our Mountain View, CA office!
What you'll do:
- Responsible for vehicle power and signal distribution including connectors
- Create engineering specifications like requirements, CAD models, drawings for the vehicle harnesses
- Take ownership of the Device transmittal (DT) process
- Collaborate with cross functional team members to complete the system specification and fill gaps were needed
- Provide technical expertise on power, signal and data bus distribution as well as ground specification needed in autonomous vehicles
- Collaborate with suppliers/vendors as needed to build prototype and production vehicles
- Develop and refine tools and methods currently leveraged by the team
- Mentor wider engineering team in the principles of power and signal distribution
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 Python scripting experience, preferred
More about Gatik:
With headquarters in Mountain View, CA and offices in Canada, Texas and Arkansas. Gatik is establishing new standards of success for the autonomous trucking industry every day. Visit us at Gatik for more company information and Jobs @ Gatik for more open roles. Gatik News:- Gatik AI Website
- Tyson Foods Takes First Taste Of Autonomous With Gatik
- Forbes Cover featuring Gautam Narang 2023
- The 10 most innovative companies in transportation of 2023
- Gatik and Kroger multi-year commercial collaboration
- America’s Best Startup Employers of 2023 by Forbes
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