Engineering Technical Lead – Engineering Triage
ALSO · Palo Alto, CA
$170,000–$210,000from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Palo Alto, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A technical leadership role focused on building and running an engineering triage function for a small EV company's connected-vehicle stack, spanning embedded firmware, mobile apps, cloud services, and vehicle connectivity. Day-to-day work involves owning issue intake, cross-functional root cause investigations, diagnostic tooling, observability improvements, and release-readiness assessments. Best suited to a senior engineer with broad experience across embedded systems, mobile, and cloud who also enjoys process design and cross-team coordination.
Senior level · 8+ years · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 60 people in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer occupations, all other). range 10–110
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $188,486 (middle half $139,113–$224,920). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
This role is a cross-functional Engineering Technical Lead for triage/validation — it spans embedded firmware, mobile, cloud, and connected vehicle systems. It does not map cleanly to a single SOC; 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) best captures the engineering operations/triage leadership focus, with 15-1252 (Software Developers) as a close runner-up given the scripting, tooling, and CI/CD responsibilities.
The title carries no explicit seniority level word, so advertised seniority is Unspecified. The 8+ years requirement and cross-functional technical leadership scope support a Senior classification.
Degree requirement is marked None: the JD lists 'Bachelor's or Master's degree … or a related technical field' but does not explicitly state it is required vs. preferred, and the phrasing is consistent with a soft requirement. If the hiring team treats it as a hard gate, this should be updated to Bachelors.
Automotive industry experience (CAN, UDS, DTCs, Vector/NI tools) is explicitly called 'a plus' in the JD and is therefore listed as preferred.
The role is located in Silicon Valley (San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara CBSA); no remote option is mentioned.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): mobile application development.
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