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Senior, Electrical Harness Engineer
Kodiak Robotics · Mountain View, CA · Posted 48 days ago
We are seeking a Sr Electrical Harness Engineer to join our team in Mountain View, CA. The successful candidate will be responsible for product-level design and validation of electrical wire harnesses and subassemblies that are critical to the operation of our autonomous vehicles. The role will require knowledge in designing harness schematics, harness diagrams, harness manufacturing, and generating system interconnect diagrams. The role will work collaboratively across electrical, mechanical, and integration engineering teams to build safe, reliable systems.
In this role, you will:
- Be a core member on the Electrical Engineering team responsible for designing high quality harnesses assemblies for a system that includes high speed, low voltage, and high power requirements
- Design and validate custom automotive harnesses that are critical to the operation of our autonomous vehicle
- Responsible for working with our external partners for harness manufacturing
- Develop wire harness schematics and harness diagrams
- Responsible for harness BOM, component selection, and harness
- Familiar with automated tools for harness validation
- Own full lifecycle of harness design, including technical reviews, trade studies, outsource cable manufacturing, test, and product release
- Lead root cause analysis and resolve issues in electrical systems
- Interface closely with other teams such as Software, Mechanical, Manufacturing, and with external suppliers
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of hardware development experience, ideally within the automotive, aerospace or a related industry
- Deep understanding electrical harness designs
- Troubleshooting skillset
- Familiarity with IPC quality standards
- Experience with implementation and on-vehicle debugging of low level hardware buses such as CAN and Ethernet
- Hands on. You are just as comfortable getting your hands dirty analyzing a subsystem in the shop as when using a keyboard.
- Great communicator. You have experience writing clear, concise, and detailed documentation
- Passion. You are passionate about autonomous vehicles and their potential impact on humanity
- Competitive compensation package including equity and annual bonuses
- Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision plans through Kaiser Permanente, Cigna, and MetLife (including a medical plan with infertility benefits)
- MetLife Legal Services, Identity & Fraud Protection, Hospital Indemnity Insurance, Accident Insurance, & Critical Illness Insurance
- Flexible PTO, 10 paid holidays, and generous parental leave policies
- Our office is centrally located in Mountain View, CA
- Office perks: dog-friendly, free catered lunch, a fully stocked kitchen, and free EV charging
- Long Term Disability, Short Term Disability, Life Insurance
- Wellbeing Benefits - Headspace through Cigna, Calm through Kaiser, One Medical, Gympass, Spring Health through Cigna, Rula (mental health navigation)
- Commuter, FSA, Dependent Care FSA, HSA
- Various incentive programs (referral bonuses, patent bonuses, etc.)
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