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Senior Hardware Test Engineer
Company | Aurora Innovation |
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Location | Mountain View, CA, USA |
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Salary | $127000 – $204000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- Extensive experience in measuring, testing, analyzing, or designing electrical systems.
- Experience with testing and characterizing communication protocols such as I2C, SPI, UART, and MDIO.
- Proficiency in using lab equipment, including oscilloscopes, electronic loads, VNA, TDR, and spectrum analyzers.
- Strong knowledge of Electrical Engineering fundamentals.
- Experience working in a Linux environment.
- Ability to set up test stations with network configurations.
- Extensive experience in hardware troubleshooting and FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis).
- Knowledge of shell scripting and Python.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement test methodology for verifying and validating hardware operation of complex systems.
- Work directly with Aurora’s HW and SW Embedded design engineering teams to create validation test plans, procedures, and reports.
- Plan, evaluate, and purchase required test equipment for validation work in the lab.
- Perform component, board, and system level electrical, functional and characterization measurements.
- Deploy automated scripts/software to test systems, analyze data, and create test reports.
- Investigate failure root cause and help drive product improvements.
- Support hardware design team with bring-up, experiments/evaluations, and measurements.
- Support and train junior team members with troubleshooting, measurements, and testing.
- Presenting and documenting the test reports and test plans, review the schematic and HW architecture;
- Directing junior-level and assisting senior-level engineers on various projects;
- Setup a test rack with networking on linux based OS.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience on Lidar HW design and/or testing
- Experience on ISO16750-2 testing
- Proven experience in the product life cycle development process from concept to production.
- Project management of complex systems
- Familiar with EE design tools, such as schematic capture and layout.
- Designing and prototyping test boards