Senior Electrical Harness Engineer
Public autonomous-vehicle technology company providing the Kodiak Driver, an AI-powered, modular autonomy platform for driverless commercial trucking and public-sector ground applications.
Funding history
About Kodiak AI, Inc.
Kodiak AI commercializes driverless ground-autonomy technology. Its vehicle-agnostic Kodiak Driver combines AI software, modular hardware, SensorPods, remote support, and offboard services; it serves trucking, industrial, defense, and public-sector use cases.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will design, validate, and release electrical wire harnesses and subassemblies for autonomous vehicles. You will create schematics and interconnect diagrams, select components, coordinate manufacturing, conduct technical reviews and testing, and troubleshoot electrical systems with internal teams and suppliers.
Requirements
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of hardware development experience
- Understanding of electrical harness designs
- Troubleshooting skills
- Familiarity with IPC quality standards
- Experience debugging CAN and Ethernet hardware buses
- Technical documentation skills
Responsibilities
- Design high-quality harness assemblies for high-speed, low-voltage, and high-power systems
- Design and validate custom automotive harnesses
- Work with external harness manufacturing partners
- Develop wire-harness schematics and diagrams
- Manage harness BOMs and component selection
- Use automated tools for harness validation
- Own the full harness-design lifecycle
- Lead root-cause analysis and resolve electrical-system issues
- Collaborate with software, mechanical, manufacturing, and supplier partners
Benefits
- Equity and annual bonuses
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Infertility benefits
- Legal services
- Identity and fraud protection
- Hospital indemnity, accident, and critical illness insurance
- Flexible PTO
- 10 paid holidays
- Parental leave
- Dog-friendly office
- Free catered lunch
- Stocked kitchen
- Free EV charging
- Long-term disability insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Wellbeing benefits
- 401(k)
- Commuter benefits
- FSA, dependent care FSA, and HSA
- Referral and patent bonuses