Electrical Engineering Manager Mountain View, CA

Company: Gatik AI Inc.
Location: Mountain View
Posted on: November 15, 2024

Job Description:

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
As an Electrical Engineering Manager in our Hardware Engineering team you will be responsible for all electronic components on and off the vehicle along with establishing processes needed to bring-up and to calibrate the stack. This means you are closely working with the Systems Engineering team to establish architectures meeting our requirements as well as bringing the system to production, while collaborating with a diverse and multidisciplinary team delivering high quality vehicles. You are following best engineering practices & standards in general and are able to be scrappy when needed to make progress. Your area of expertise is selecting, integrating, connecting and troubleshooting electronics and software bring-up. Even though this is a Manager role, this role still expects all candidates to be hands-on and to solve technical problems.This role is onsite 5 days a week at our Mountain View, CA office.
What You Will Do

• 
  
• Lead electronic components selection required for an Autonomous Vehicle and own the technical definition of these components through the development cycle
  
• Lead the Hardware system architecture
  
• Lead the vehicle and component bring-up as well as sensor calibration process by closely collaborating with hardware and software teams
  
• Lead supplier technical interaction with strategic component suppliers
  
• Champion necessary build documentation to hand off the NPI team to support vehicle manufacturing at scale
  
• Manage prototype and bench builds supporting HIL development and testing
  
• Manage retrofits and/or upgrades for vehicles in operation as well as supporting critical service & maintenance requests for repairs for our test vehicles.
  
• Ensure best practices and engineering standards for installation, integration & verification of automotive electronics, harnesses, electrical integration, etc.
  
• Trouble-shoot and root-cause issues coming up in development and manufacturing together with other engineering teams.
  
  What We're Looking For
  
  • 
    
  • 8+ years of experience building prototype or small and/or production run series vehicles
    
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics OR an equivalent field (Master's degree preferred)
    
  • Extensive experience with sensor technology such as camera, ultrasound, lidar, and radar performance and calibration
    
  • Strong understanding of Sensor performance and trade-offs for autonomous vehicle architectures
    
  • Extensive experience with vehicle electronics and harness integration
    
  • Experience in bringing up software and mechatronics systems
    
  • Experience in prototyping and integration in the automotive, trucking, aerospace, robotics, or automation industry
    
  • Ability to write code to automate workflows and leverage command-line tools
    
  • Experience troubleshooting vehicle communication networks like CAN, CAN-FD, LIN
    
  • Experience creating harnesses, soldering and installing electronic components
    
  • Knowledge in MatLab / Simulink (preferred)
    
  • Wiring harness fabrication and installation experience (preferred)
    
  • Experience creating simple PCBs and electronics (preferred)
    
  • Experience programming microcontrollers (preferred)
    
    Taking care of our team:
    At Gatik, we connect people of extraordinary talent and experience to an opportunity to create a more resilient supply chain and contribute to our environment's sustainability. We are diverse in our backgrounds and perspectives yet united by a bold vision and shared commitment to our values. Our culture emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect and agility.
    We at Gatik strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that together we can do great things. We are committed to an inclusive and diverse team. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.
    #J-18808-Ljbffr

Keywords: Gatik AI Inc., North Highlands , Electrical Engineering Manager Mountain View, CA, Executive , Mountain View, California