Fleet Support Engineer R&D
Iconma
Foster City, CA
Our Client, an AV Manufacturing company, is looking for a Fleet Support Engineer R&D for their Foster City, CA location.
Responsibilities:
Deep Root Cause Analysis (RCA):
- Lead the investigation of critical failures on the R&D fleet, specifically targeting High Voltage (HV) isolation faults, Powertrain inverters/motors, and Chassis control systems.
- Perform "Layer 1" physical diagnostics using oscilloscopes, multimeters, and insulation testers to validate harness integrity and signal quality.
- Analyze CAN bus traffic (using Vector CANalyzer, PCAN, or similar) to identify missing messages, error frames, or bus load issues causing system dropouts.
- Debug HMI (Human Machine Interface) issues, ensuring driver inputs (stalks, screens, buttons) are correctly interpreted by vehicle controllers.
- Validate fixes for "hard-to-reproduce" bugs involving thermal throttling, battery management system (BMS) logic, and regenerative braking anomalies.
- Support the integration of new hardware revisions onto the R&D platform, ensuring backward compatibility.
- Author detailed failure analysis reports (8D or similar formats) that provide actionable data to Design Engineers.
- Create detailed "symptom-to-root-cause" troubleshooting guides for the wider technical team.
Requirements:
- Minimum of 6 years of relevant experience in transportation, aerospace, or autonomous vehicles.
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
- Experience with low/high voltage circuits, Unified Diagnostic Services (UDS), and how to safely troubleshoot.
- Understanding of hardware and software systems architecture, communications to support in an operations setting.
- Embraces a holistic problem-solving approach to identifying issues with high-level vehicle functions and drive specific resolution into single components.
- Self-starter, ability to build relationships across the company.
- Ability to comprehend schematics, electrical diagrams, connector end views/pinout.
- Experience with electric vehicle technology.
- Experience with remotely supporting vehicle troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of vehicle systems and diagnostics tools.
- Experience with Linux & Python-based programming systems for fleet-level data processing.
- Experience with software that interfaces with hardware.
- Familiarity with networking, TCP, automotive ethernet and socket programming.
Why Should You Apply?
- Health Benefits
- Referral Program
- Excellent growth and advancement opportunities
As an equal opportunity employer, ICONMA provides an employment environment that supports and encourages the abilities of all persons without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or express, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability status, political affiliation, genetics, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
About the Company
Iconma
ICONMA is a global information consulting management firm providing Professional Staffing Services and Project-Based Solutions for organizations in a broad range of industries.
- Corporate Headquarters in Troy, Michigan; 20+ locations worldwide.
- Certified Woman-Owned Business Enterprise (WBE); certified by Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, National Women Business Owners Corporation (NWBOC); and California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).
- Founded in 2000
- 2000+ Employees
The company was founded on the principle that success is derived from delivering high quality service and resources in the most responsive, flexible, and innovative way. ICONMA invests in people and resources with a single goal: To provide our customers with the highest quality service in the most responsive manner. Through its network of offices, ICONMA provides the resources to help clients maintain their competitive advantage.