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Director, Vehicle Integration (AV Platform Engineering)
$185K–$254K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 10+ years of relevant experience, including 5+ leading engineers; equivalent hands-on experience may substitute for the degree.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field; equivalent hands-on experience will be considered in place of the degree.
- Visa sponsorship
About the job
Leads the team responsible for integrating, validating, commissioning, and scaling autonomous vehicle platforms from engineering builds to fleet deployment.
What you'll do
- Own hardware-in-the-loop and bench validation, vehicle integration architecture, and on-vehicle bring-up and commissioning.
- Coordinate engineering, operations, manufacturing, OEM, and supplier interfaces; establish integration standards and root-cause processes.
- Hire and lead the vehicle integration team and develop repeatable build and retrofit processes.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 10+ years of relevant experience, including 5+ years leading engineers; equivalent hands-on experience may substitute for the degree.
- Ownership of vehicle integration from architecture through fleet deployment, plus experience making vehicle bring-up repeatable.
- Hands-on experience with vehicle networks, drive-by-wire and actuation, electrical and harness architecture, embedded compute and sensors, and hardware-in-the-loop validation.
- Experience on an L3 or L4 automated driving program, or a production ADAS program at L2+; able to work onsite five days weekly, travel to test and deployment sites, meet stated physical demands, and hold a valid driver’s license with a clean record.
Pay
$185,000 - $254,000 per year (USD base salary)
Tools
CAN, CAN FD, automotive Ethernet, drive-by-wire, hardware-in-the-loop, DFMEA
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