Staff Harness Engineering Manager
Kodiak AI is an active public company providing AI-powered autonomous ground-vehicle technology, principally through the Kodiak Driver for commercial trucking, industrial trucking, and defense applications.
Funding history
About Kodiak AI, Inc.
Kodiak Driver combines AI-powered software and modular, vehicle-agnostic hardware to enable driverless vehicle operations. Kodiak commercializes the technology through a Driver-as-a-Service model and serves trucking, industrial, and defense customers.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will set the technical direction for wire-harness architecture across high-speed, low-voltage, and high-power vehicle systems. You will establish design and quality standards, lead supplier and manufacturing strategy, oversee validation and releases, resolve electrical issues, and manage and mentor harness engineers.
Requirements
- Electrical or Mechanical Engineering degree or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of hardware development experience in automotive, aerospace, or another safety-critical industry
- Electrical harness design, architecture, and manufacturing expertise
- Experience setting design and quality standards and leading engineers or teams
- Root-cause analysis and troubleshooting experience
- Knowledge of IPC quality standards including IPC/WHMA-A-620
- CAN, Ethernet, and LIN implementation and on-vehicle debugging experience
- Supplier negotiation and external manufacturing-partnership management experience
- Technical documentation and leadership presentation skills
Responsibilities
- Own wire-harness and subassembly architecture across the vehicle platform
- Set and enforce harness design standards, review processes, and DFM/DFA practices
- Lead make-or-buy and supplier strategy for harness manufacturing
- Conduct architecture trade studies covering topology, routing, connectors, EMI, and signal integrity
- Govern technical reviews, DVP&R, qualification testing, outsourced manufacturing, and release
- Lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions for escalated electrical issues
- Define automated harness-validation tooling and test strategy
- Mentor engineers and manage the harness engineering team
- Represent harness engineering in cross-functional and executive design reviews
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
- Free catered lunch
- Free EV charging
- Long-term and short-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Wellbeing programs
- 401(k)
- Commuter benefits
- FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and HSA
- Referral and patent bonuses