Vehicle Integration Engineer - Field Support

Kodiak • Mountain View, CA

3d • $140,000 - $170,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Kodiak Robotics, Inc. is seeking a Vehicle Integration Engineer with a field support focus to maintain the uptime of their deployed autonomous systems at customer sites. This role involves owning fleet uptime, leading root cause investigations, and acting as a technical liaison between customers, field operations, and product engineering. The engineer will work across hardware, software, firmware, and systems integration to resolve issues quickly and improve long-term reliability.

Requirements

• Strong bias toward action; takes ownership of ambiguous problems, moves quickly to contain issues, and delivers results without waiting for perfect clarity.
• Hands-on experience debugging and assembling complex hardware/software systems, ideally in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or similarly advanced systems.
• Strong troubleshooting ability across electrical, mechanical, and software domains.
• Deep familiarity with automotive and embedded electronics, including communication protocols such as Ethernet, CAN, LIN, and 100BASE-T1.
• Track record of contributing to hardware or systems design reviews with practical, implementation-focused feedback.
• Translates field observations and failure trends into actionable design requirements.
• Comfort operating in Linux environments and using terminal-based diagnostic tools.
• Experience with scripting or programming languages such as Python, C++, C, Bash, or ROS.
• Ability to independently solve complex, novel technical problems with minimal guidance.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills across diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Respond rapidly to field failures and technical support requests to maintain system uptime
• Travel frequently to customer and deployment sites to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues (min. 30% travel expected)
• Lead cross-functional root cause analysis (RCA) across electrical, mechanical, firmware, and software domains
• Drive corrective and preventive actions to eliminate repeat failures
• Support implementation of design changes through prototyping, validation testing, and integration at customer sites
• Source and define technical requirements for field-facing hardware and integration designs based on real-world failure data and operational needs
• Improve diagnostic strategies and tooling to detect and isolate failure modes more rapidly, and recommend reliability enhancements based on operational performance data
• Perform preventative, corrective, and predictive maintenance on autonomous platforms
• Provide direct design feedback to product and hardware engineering teams grounded in hands-on field experience
• Create and review documentation including schematics, drawings, build instructions, and troubleshooting guides

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package including equity and annual bonuses
• Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Medical plan with infertility benefits
• MetLife Legal Services
• Identity & Fraud Protection
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• Accident Insurance
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Flexible PTO
• 10 paid holidays
• Generous parental leave policies
• Dog-friendly office
• Free catered lunch
• Fully stocked kitchen
• 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)
• Fidelity 401(k)
• Commuter benefits
• FSA
• Dependent Care FSA
• HSA
• Various incentive programs (referral bonuses, patent bonuses, etc.)
• Visa sponsorship for eligible candidates

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed