We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.
As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.
When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.
Sensor Integration Engineer
Onsite in Foster City, CA | 4 days in office
Travel within the Bay Area will be required
The person working on this will ensure that we can have a validate sensor cleaning system in order to trust those cameras, Lidars and sensors to operate consistently in different weather conditions and within specifications on all vehicles in our public road fleet. ensuring a proper solution, developing a robust test plan, and integrating the fully validated solution to the vehicle, will improve the quality and consistency of the sensors running, factory line, reduce supply chain yield losses, improve drive comfort and reduce downtime of the vehicles.
Responsibilities:
- Diagnose and troubleshoot fleet issues impacting system performance
- Support wind tunnel and fleet testing of SCM function
- Support hardware/system level testing activities as needed. Write test plan, design internal test fixture, execute testing and report test result.
Required Skills:
- Mechanical Engineering/Electrical Engineering or related background BS with 2 years work experience is minimum.
- Experience with 2D/3D in solidworks, Catia, or UG NX
- Able to read/interpret engineering test standards.
- Familiarity with data acquisition tools
- Hands on experience and troubleshoot mechanical/electrical failure
- Basic understanding of Python or other scripting languages.
Bonus skills:
- Familiar with automotive standards such as FMVSS, ISO, IEC test standards
- Hands on experiences with thermocouples, strain gauge, pressure transducer, accelerometers, etc
- Able to use CAN tool, eg: PCAN, Vector to troubleshoot vehicle faults.
- Experience with hydraulic and pneumatic systems
Salary Range: $110,000-$120,000/K
The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience
ALTEN Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our Policy is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual’s age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.
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What We Do
ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering consulting company that provides innovative solutions for engineering, IT, and product development projects across the product life cycle. For decades, ALTEN Technology USA has been helping clients develop products that are changing the world, whether by shaping the future of space exploration, saving lives with medical devices that set new standards of care or creating the fully autonomous electric taxi of tomorrow. The company provides support across industries including aerospace, defense, MedTech and life sciences, unmanned systems and robotics, automotive OEM and tier 1 suppliers, commercial vehicles, electric vehicles, energy and environment, rail, and more.
Why Work With Us
Potential clients in the industries we serve, Professionals in the Industries, and Potential employees within New Product Development, Engineering Services, Sustaining Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Embedded Electronics Engineering, Software Engineering and IT, Mechanical Engineering, and Systems Engineering.
