Electrical Engineering Manager

Who we are

Gatik, the leader in autonomous middle-mile logistics, is revolutionizing the B2B supply chain with its autonomous transportation-as-a-service (ATaaS) solution and prioritizing safe, consistent deliveries while streamlining freight movement by reducing congestion. The company focuses on short-haul, B2B logistics for Fortune 500 retailers and in 2021 launched the world’s first fully driverless commercial transportation service with Walmart. Gatik’s Class 3-7 autonomous trucks are commercially deployed across major markets, including Texas, Arkansas, and Ontario, Canada, driving innovation in freight transportation. 

The company’s proprietary Level 4 autonomous technology, Gatik Carrier™, is custom-built to transport freight safely and efficiently between pick-up and drop-off locations on the middle mile. With robust capabilities in both highway and urban environments, Gatik Carrier™ serves as an all-encompassing solution that integrates advanced software and hardware powering the fleet, facilitating effortless integration into customers’ logistics operations. 

About the role

As an Electrical Engineering Manager in our Hardware Engineering team you will be responsible for all electronic components on and off the vehicle along with establishing processes needed to bring-up and to calibrate the stack. This means you are closely working with the Systems Engineering team to establish architectures meeting our requirements as well as bringing the system to production, while collaborating with a diverse and multidisciplinary team delivering high quality vehicles. You are following best engineering practices & standards in general and are able to be scrappy when needed to make progress. Your area of expertise is selecting, integrating, connecting and troubleshooting electronics and software bring-up. Even though this is a Manager role, this role still expects all candidates to be hands-on and to solve technical problems. 
 
This role is onsite 5 days a week at our Mountain View, CA office.

What you’ll do

• Lead electronic components selection required for an Autonomous Vehicle and own the technical definition of these components through the development cycle
• Lead the Hardware system architecture
• Lead the vehicle and component bring-up as well as sensor calibration process by closely collaborating with hardware and software teams
• Lead supplier technical interaction with strategic component suppliers
• Champion necessary build documentation to hand off the NPI team to support vehicle manufacturing at scale
• Manage prototype and bench builds supporting HIL development and testing
• Manage retrofits and/or upgrades for vehicles in operation as well as supporting critical service & maintenance requests for repairs for our test vehicles.
• Ensure best practices and engineering standards for installation, integration & verification of automotive electronics, harnesses, electrical integration, etc.
• Trouble-shoot and root-cause issues coming up in development and manufacturing together with other engineering teams.

What we’re looking for

• 8+ years of experience building prototype or small and/or production run series vehicles
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics OR an equivalent field (Master’s degree preferred)
• Extensive experience with sensor technology such as camera, ultrasound, lidar, and radar performance and calibration
• Strong understanding of Sensor performance and trade-offs for autonomous vehicle architectures
• Extensive experience with vehicle electronics and harness integration
• Experience in bringing up software and mechatronics systems
• Experience in prototyping and integration in the automotive, trucking, aerospace, robotics, or automation industry
• Ability to write code to automate workflows and leverage command-line tools
• Experience troubleshooting vehicle communication networks like CAN, CAN-FD, LIN
• Experience creating harnesses, soldering and installing electronic components
• Knowledge in MatLab / Simulink (preferred)
• Wiring harness fabrication and installation experience (preferred)
• Experience creating simple PCBs and electronics (preferred)
• Experience programming microcontrollers (preferred)

More about Gatik

Founded in 2017 by experts in autonomous vehicle technology, Gatik has rapidly expanded its presence to Mountain View, Dallas-Fort Worth, Arkansas, and Toronto. As the first and only company to achieve fully driverless middle-mile commercial deliveries, Gatik holds a unique and defensible position in the AV industry, with a clear trajectory toward sustainable growth and profitability.

We have delivered complete, proprietary AV technology - an integration of software and hardware - to enable earlier successes for our clients in constrained Level 4 autonomy.  By choosing the middle mile – with defined point-to-point delivery, we have simplified some of the more complex AV challenges, enabling us to achieve full autonomy ahead of competitors. Given extensive knowledge of Gatik’s well-defined, fixed route ODDs and hybrid architecture, we are able to hyper-optimize our models with exponentially less data, establish gate-keeping mechanisms to maintain explainability, and ensure continued safety of the system for unmanned operations.

Visit us at Gatik for more company information and Careers at Gatik for more open roles.

Notable News

• Forbes: Forget robotaxis. Upstart Gatik sees middle-mile deliveries as the path to profitable AVs
• Tech Brew: Gatik AI exec unpacks the regulations that could shape the AV industry
• Business Wire: Gatik Paves the Way for Safe Driverless Operations (‘Freight-Only’) at Scale with Industry-First Third-Party Safety Assessment Framework
• Auto Futures: Autonomous Trucking Group Gatik Secures Investment From NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS
• Automotive News: Gatik foresees hundreds of self-driving trucks on road soon, and that’s just the beginning
• Forbes: Isuzu And Gatik Go All In To Scale Up Driverless Freight Services
• Bloomberg: Autonomous Vehicle Startup Takes Off by Picking Off Easier Routes
• Reuters: Driverless vehicles on limited routes bump along despite US robotaxi scrutiny

Taking care of our team

At Gatik, we connect people of extraordinary talent and experience to an opportunity to create a more resilient supply chain and contribute to our environment’s sustainability. We are diverse in our backgrounds and perspectives yet united by a bold vision and shared commitment to our values. Our culture emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect and agility.

We at Gatik strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that together we can do great things. We are committed to an inclusive and diverse team. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.