Vehicle Instrumentation Technician (contract)

About the role

Tundra Technical Solutions seeks an experienced professional to join our team in implementing and maintaining instrumentation and measurement processes for fleet vehicles. This role involves daily analysis of vehicle activity to identify areas for improvement, maintenance of a reference file for all instrumentations, and configuration setup based on vehicle type, architecture, and energy source.

Responsibilities

• Daily analysis of overall activity to identify improvement opportunities
• Maintenance of a reference file for all instrumentations, establishing a database of configurations based on vehicle type, architecture, and energy source
• Necessitates needs analysis and selection of appropriate measurement equipment (data loggers based on specifications; selection of wiring harnesses)
• Configuration setup according to the type of logger used
• Vehicle instrumentation: installation of loggers and harnesses on electric vehicles (EV) or bench testing
• Data acquisition
• Data analysis
• Report drafting
• Creation of configurations (retrieved from the SIRI server) according to the vehicle’s architecture and powertrain
• Writing of technical documentation
• Technical support (Troubleshooting and issue resolution)
• Execution of semi-automated DOVE procedures using a smartphone application

Tools / Skills

• VECTOR (CANalyzer, CANoe)
• CAN, FD_CAN and ethernet protocols
• Electrical wiring and data logger interphase harness design
• Test execution and performance metrics: Proficiency in executing tests and calculating performance metrics, with programming skills in PWI, Python, C++, or similar languages preferred

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline
• A minimum of 5 years of working experience
• Strong knowledge of CAN, FD_CAN and ethernet protocols
• Electrical wiring and data logger interphase harness design
• Proficiency in executing tests and calculating performance metrics, with programming skills in PWI, Python, C++, or similar languages preferred

Good to Have

• Testing methodologies: Strong knowledge of electrical and electronic architectures
• Testing and data collection tools: Experience in programming and querying vehicle networks and ECUs
• Automated testing: Ability to develop and implement configurations tailored to the vehicles under test

Pay

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $19.93/hour - $31.14/hour.

Benefits

Our offered benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits.

Schedule

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Retail

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Unincorporated LA County Workers

In addition to the above requirements, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.