Charging and Electrical Technician

Why this role is written up before it exists

A Robotaxi that cannot charge is a parked car. Every hub we intend to build is, before anything else, an electrical site: a utility interconnect, switchgear, cabling, and rows of charging positions, plug-in and inductive, that have to be installed correctly, commissioned, and kept working through heat, rain, and thousands of sessions a month. That work is done by licensed people, and it starts before the first vehicle arrives, which is why this role is written up alongside site development rather than after it.

This page describes a role we expect to create. It is not an open position and not an offer of employment.

What this role would be

You would own the electrical side of a hub from the utility meter to the charging pad: the installation and commissioning of charging positions, their maintenance, the site's power management, and the relationship with the utility and the charging equipment suppliers. You would be the person who says a charging position is safe to energize and the person who takes it out of service when it is not.

What you would do

• Install, commission, and maintain fast-charging and inductive charging positions to the manufacturer's specification, the site's standard work, and the electrical code where the hub stands.
• Manage power at the site: the load the utility has agreed, the charging schedule the site manager runs against it, and the switchgear and protection between the two.
• Work with the utility on interconnect, capacity, metering, and outages, and keep the record of every conversation and every commitment.
• Confirm that every charging position, plug-in or inductive, reads a correctly seated vehicle before power flows, and design out the wrong action wherever one is possible.
• Own lockout and tagout for every piece of electrical work on the site, for your own work and for anyone who works near it.
• Log every failed charging session by position, and open a root-cause review when a position fails twice at the same fault.
• Keep the spare-parts stock for charging equipment to the site's measured failure rate, kitted before a repair starts.
• Train technicians and crews in the electrical hazards of the floor, and hold the record of who has demonstrated what.

Who you would be

• You hold a North Carolina electrical license appropriate to the work, or you work under one and are on the path to your own; the posting would state exactly which.
• You have installed or maintained electric-vehicle charging equipment, commercial switchgear, or comparable high-power systems, and you can read a one-line diagram and a manufacturer's commissioning procedure and follow both exactly.
• You have worked with a utility on an interconnect or a capacity upgrade and you know how long each step actually takes.
• You hold, or would complete, an electric-vehicle infrastructure training certification; we intend to fund it where the role requires it.
• You treat lockout and tagout as the first step of every job, and you stop the job when someone else skips it, whoever they are.
• You are willing to be on call for outages on a fair rotation, because the fleet runs when riders ride.

How the work would be measured

Charging position uptime; failed sessions per position and per fault; time from equipment delivery to commissioned position; energy delivered against the load agreed with the utility; and zero energized work without lockout and tagout. None of these numbers exist yet, because no charging position exists yet. The targets belong on the posting, not on this page, and we intend to publish them with it.

What the posting would add that this page cannot

• A pay range. We intend to list one on every open role.
• The hub, the metro, the on-call rotation, and the start date.
• The exact licensing the role requires under North Carolina law, and the background and drug-testing requirements consistent with our insurers, stated in the posting.
• Benefits, and the certifications and continuing education we would fund.

Not open yet

There is no hub, no fleet, and no start date. Joining the talent network under Charging and electrical is how to be on the list when there is, and it creates no obligation on either side. Join the talent network under Charging and electrical.