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Vehicle Integration Technician

Kodiak AI· Integration
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Lancaster, TXFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Experienced vehicle integration role focused on building, maintaining, and troubleshooting mechanical, electrical, and software systems on Kodiak's autonomous vehicle fleet, with emphasis on documentation and fleet uptime.

Responsibilities

  • Build, maintain, and upfit first article builds of autonomous technology as a core member of the Engineering team
  • Do hands-on troubleshooting, diagnosis, repair, and root-cause work across mechanical, electrical, and software systems seen across the fleet
  • Maintain, repair, and upfit systems to improve fleetwide uptime
  • Perform testing on mechanical and electrical components and assemblies
  • Generate and review work instructions, redlines, and manufacturing/service feedback for the engineering team
  • Inspect hardware quality at various levels and provide feedback to resolve manufacturing/build issues
  • Maintain a clean, safe, and organized working environment
  • Onsite. Occasional travel required (fleet locations, partner sites, or field support as needed — expected to be infrequent, not a regular part of the role)

Qualifications

  • Strong hands-on diagnostic and repair experience across mechanical and electrical systems, gained in any relevant setting: fleet maintenance, automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial equipment, or prototype/development environments
  • Experience with prototype, first-article, or low-volume builds, and with operating test equipment
  • Strong electrical diagnostics skills: able to chase down intermittent or hard-to-find electrical faults, and to read schematics, wiring diagrams, and harness diagrams
  • Aptitude for creating and using various forms of documentation to thoroughly communicate topics to different audiences within the engineering structure. Topics can range from safety-critical issues, work instructions, direct engineering feedback.

Skills

Required:Hands-on mechanical and electrical diagnosticsPrototype/first-article/low-volume buildsElectrical schematic and harness readingDocumentation and communication

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package including equity and bonuses
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision plans through Kaiser Permanente, Cigna, and MetLife (including a medical plan with infertility benefits)
  • Accrued PTO, generous parental leave policies, and 10 paid holidays
  • Long Term Disability, Short Term Disability, Life Insurance
  • Wellbeing Benefits - Headspace, Calm, One Medical, Gympass, Spring Health, Rula
  • Fidelity 401(k)
  • Commuter, FSA, Dependent Care FSA, HSA
  • Various incentive programs (referral bonuses, patent bonuses, etc.)
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Kodiak AI

Safely driving an autonomous future.

Our purpose-built autonomous solution, the Kodiak Driver, is the AV industry’s most advanced driverless technology, seamlessly integrating into any driving platform for reliable movement in any environment. Learn how we’re shaping the future of ground transportation.

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