Senior Systems Engineer, Hardware Systems

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Field & Fleet Triage Expertise: Ability to apply strong analytical and system level troubleshooting skills. Specifically, execute troubleshooting from symptoms to possible causes by seeking out and examining /…
• Lead End-to-End Field Investigations: Hands-on leadership to drive complex technical investigations of vehicle fleet behaviors from initial bug escalation through root-cause analysis and remediation, including power…
• Investigative Test Design & Execution: Formulate and conduct tests to replicate anomalies observed in the field within controlled settings, leveraging closed-course evaluations, fault injection, Hardware-in-the-Loop…
• Remediation Strategy Development & Deployment: Formulate and roll out short term containment measures and long term corrective actions for that could take the form of firmware adjustments, system architecture updates,…
• Scalable Sustaining Processes: Partner with adjacent teams to streamline existing workflows for bug escalation, field diagnostics, and root cause analysis to scale sustaining capabilities across fleet growth.
• Production & EOL Support: Take the lead for investigating end of line issues found at the production facility around thermal, power, cleaning, HMI, audio sub systems.
• HIL Test Bench Troubleshooting: Build automated test scripts and run HIL bench diagnostics to troubleshoot subsystem issues early, minimizing dependency on vehicle-level testing
• Travel to Aurora Operations locations: Travel to locations where field issues are discovered for the purpose of investigation. (30% of total time)

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical or Aerospace or Mechatronics or Computer Science Engineering and a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree and a minimum of 4 years of relevant…
• 2+ years of industry experience in systems engineering
• 2+ years of industry experience in system test planning and execution (verification and validation)
• Strong organizational abilities to drive and manage field issues end to end
• Strong communication skills to effectively coordinate with local and remote teams and quickly drive issue resolution
• Complex System Troubleshooting: Proven expertise in diagnosing issues related to system interactions on automated vehicles or other robotic systems. Using hand held diagnostic equipment such as multimeters, o-scopes etc.
• Using laptop based industry standard diagnostic service equipment - Cummins Insite, Eaton Service Ranger, International Diamond Builder, KB Diag etc.
• Setting up and deploying data acquisition devices for both analog (current, voltage, temp) and digital (CAN Logging) domains,