Vehicle Integration Technician
HIVE
Vehicle Integration Technician
HIVE
Autonomous operation retrofit of industrial equipment
At Hive, we're building the defining physical AI platform of the next decade.
Industrial labor is one of the most acute bottlenecks in the global economy. Operators are expensive, hard to retain, and working in environments that are increasingly unsafe. The shortage is structural. The window to solve it is now.
Our answer is a machine-agnostic intelligence platform that lets any machine, on any site, perceive, decide, and act autonomously. One platform. Any machine. No fleet replacement.
Already live across multiple sites and customers in Europe - spanning logistics and warehousing, industrial manufacturing, and large-scale chemical production - with a US expansion underway.
The vision: one operator managing hundreds of machines simultaneously. Productive machine-hour cost dropping by 80x, and unlocks the next productivity revolution in physical work.
The mission is to make productivity limitless. Come and help us build it.
The Vehicle Integration Technician builds, installs, tests, and repairs the hardware used to retrofit industrial vehicles with Hive autonomy systems.
The technician works closely with integration engineers and helps turn first-of-kind engineering designs into safe, repeatable installations.
Assemble wiring harnesses, electrical cabinets, cables, and connector systems.
Install sensors, compute hardware, controllers, actuators, brackets, and wiring on vehicles.
Perform crimping, connector assembly, soldering, wiring, labeling, and mechanical installation.
Read and follow electrical schematics, harness drawings, BOMs, and installation procedures.
Perform continuity, insulation, voltage, power, CAN connectivity, and functional checks.
Support machine bring-up, commissioning, debugging, and acceptance testing.
Troubleshoot installation problems and assist engineers with root-cause analysis.
Perform field repairs, engineering changes, and electrical or mechanical rework.
Document build issues and provide feedback to improve Vehicle Adapter Kits.
Maintain workshop tools, calibrated equipment, inventory, and build records.
Follow electrical, mechanical, customer-site, and lockout/tagout safety procedures.
Experience with automotive, industrial equipment, robotics, heavy machinery, or similar systems.
Strong wiring harness assembly, crimping, connector, and troubleshooting skills.
Ability to read electrical schematics and mechanical drawings.
Experience using multimeters, power supplies, hand tools, and standard workshop equipment.
Basic understanding of CAN wiring and vehicle electrical systems.
Strong attention to detail and workmanship.
Ability to work safely and independently in workshop and field environments.
Willingness to travel regularly and support installations at customer sites.
Hive Autonomy retrofits forklifts, excavators, wheel loaders and other industrial machines so they can operate autonomously or be controlled remotely. Its hardware-software stack includes a silicon-brain on the machine and a centralized control station that lets one operator supervise several machines, using sensors to plan routes and avoid obstacles. It differentiates itself by focusing on machine-agnostic retrofits rather than building new autonomous machines from scratch and by partnering with large industrial players to deploy pilots. Its goal is to scale deployments and continue product development to make autonomous and remote-controlled industrial work more common and reliable, supported by its 2026 funding round.
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