Senior Electrical Hardware Engineer - Defense
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Requirements
- BS, MS, or equivalent experience in Electrical, Mechanical, or Computer Engineering
- 5+ years of hardware development experience, ideally within the automotive, aerospace or a related industry
- 5+ years of experience designing PCBAs
- Deep understanding of mixed analog and digital circuits
- Experience with implementation of low - level hardware buses such as I2C, CAN, SPI, UART
- Experience with high - speed hardware communication interfaces such as PCIe, GMSL/GMSL2, Ethernet
- Hands on. You are just as comfortable getting your hands dirty analyzing a subsystem in the shop as when using a keyboard.
- Great communicator. You have experience writing clear, concise, and detailed documentation
- Passion. You are passionate about autonomous vehicles and their potential impact on humanity
- Must be a US person
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Kodiak Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2018 and has become a leader in autonomous ground transportation committed to a safer and more efficient future for all. The company has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered technology stack purpose-built for commercial trucking and the public sector. The company delivers freight daily for its customers across the southern United States using its autonomous technology. In 2024, Kodiak became the first known company to publicly announce delivering a driverless semi-truck to a customer. Kodiak is also leveraging its commercial self-driving software to develop, test and deploy autonomous capabilities for the U.S. Department of Defense. We are seeking a skilled Senior Hardware Electrical Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will have a strong background in electrical design and be responsible for the full design cycle of electrical components in our autonomous vehicles. The role will work collaboratively with the hardware, mechanical, and software engineering teams to ensure our electrical system meets compliance and functional safety requirements for building safe and reliable autonomous trucks at scale. In this role, you will: Design circuits at the schematic level using a variety of capture tools Design, influence, and collaborate with partners on power conditioning, regulation circuits and low frequency analog circuits to meet requirements Design and test standard vehicle communication harnessing, CAN, LIN, Automotive Ethernet Design and validate harnessing for low and high speed components Validation testing for EMI/EMC at the whole truck level down to subcomponents Collaborate with electrical and firmware engineering teams to validate circuits Lead root cause analysis and resolve issues in electrical systems Define stress test routines required to validate functional sections Interface closely with other teams such as Software, Mechanical, Manufacturing, and with external component suppliers
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