Staff Hardware Reliability Engineer - Sensors

About the role

Aurora's mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. The Aurora Driver will create a new era in mobility and logistics, one that will bring a safer, more efficient, and more accessible future to everyone. At Aurora, you will tackle massively complex problems alongside other passionate, intelligent individuals, growing as an expert while expanding your knowledge. For the latest news from Aurora, visit aurora.tech or follow us on LinkedIn .

Requirements

• Aurora hires talented people with diverse backgrounds who are ready to help build a transportation ecosystem that will make our roads safer, get crucial goods where they need to go, and make mobility more efficient and accessible for all.
• In this role you will
• Lead Sensor Reliability Assessments: Conduct rigorous reliability evaluations and design test campaigns for both internal and external sensor designs to ensure they meet our rigorous automotive standards.
• Drive Failure Analysis (FA): Take ownership of complex reliability failures, and shepherd corrective actions in the form of near term mitigations and longer term design or process fixes.
• Facilitate Proactive Risk Mitigation: Lead Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (DFMEA) sessions and implement corrective action plans based on prior experience and testing.
• Develop Predictive Reliability Models: Create models to predict failure rates for integrated modules and individual sensors across diverse climates and road conditions.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work with Hardware Design, Systems Engineering, Hardware Safety, Field Operations, Emedded Software, and contract manufacturers to integrate reliability findings into the design and manufacturing processes.
• Required qualifications
• Extensive Experience in Sensor Validation: Proven track record in developing and validating optomechanical products, including cameras, lidars, or other optical instruments.
• Expertise in Physics of Failure: Deep understanding of the physics of failure for electronic and optoelectronic components as applied to sensor systems.
• Reliability Test Design: Strong ability to design and execute reliability test flows (shock, vibration, thermal) suitable for contract manufacturing environments.
• Technical Data Analysis: Proficiency in analyzing sensor performance data to generate actionable insights.
• Mass Production Background: Direct experience improving the reliability of mass-produced optomechanical assemblies and managing feedback loops with external vendors.
• Desirable qualifications
• Industry Experience: Prior experience at leading R&D at automotive companies
• Standards Knowledge: Familiarity with AEC-Q, ISO-16750, and other relevant automotive reliability standards.
• Manufacturing Experience: Experience evaluating the reliability of manufacturing and assembly processes as a product moves toward large-scale production.
• Hardware-Firmware Interaction: Working knowledge of the interactions between hardware and firmware critical to sensor performance.
• Breadth of Technical Skills: Conceptual understanding of material science, PCBAs (BGA structural integrity), and conformal coating impacts on humidity exposure.
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• Working at Aurora
• At Aurora, we bring together extraordinarily talented and experienced people united by the strength of our values. We operate with integrity, set outrageous goals, and build a culture where we win together - all without any jerks.
• We believe in-person work increases collaboration, empathy and our ability to lead effectively. As a result, we operate in a hybrid work environment where Aurorans are in office at least 3 days per week.
• Our Careers page provides insight into what it is like to work at Aurora, and you can find all the latest updates in our Newsroom .
• Our commitment to safety
• At the core of everything we do is our commitment to safety. Building best-in-class self-driving technology will take time, and we believe that each employee at A

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