Staff Electrical Engineer - Autonomous Vehicle Hardware

Aurora; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 181,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

Aurora is hiring a Staff Electrical Engineer to lead electronics development for our custom hardware in a hybrid Mountain View setting. You will design, simulate, and validate high-speed signaling and power integrity across board and system levels.

The role requires 8+ years in complex electrical hardware, CAD-driven layouts, and hands-on bench work with lab instruments, contributing to manufacturing-ready designs and rapid product launches.

Qualifications

• This role requires a bachelor's or master's degree with a focus in electrical or computer engineering.
• 8+ years experience in industry developing complex electrical hardware.
• Expertise in system architecture, signal and power integrity design and analysis, high speed signaling, grounding, analog electronics.
• High proficiency and ability to analyze systems for balancing electro-mechanical and EMI/EMC constraints.
• Extensive experience with hardware productization: system, board and chip level implementation.
• Strong electrical engineering fundamentals supported by the use of CAD tools to capture schematic designs, manage PCB layout, leverage Power/Signal simulation/emulation input.
• Expertise with lab instruments (TDR, Oscilloscopes, Analyzers, DMMs, Power Supplies, and E-loads)

Responsibilities

• Join an exceptional team of electrical engineers responsible for the development of electronics for Aurora’s custom hardware.
• Collaborate with numerous internal and external teams gathering requirements, defining HW architecture, modeling, and delivering electronics that achieve performance and product metrics.
• Build, integrate, test, and debug electronics on the bench and in systems; leverage software tools and advanced test equipment (e.g. oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers)
• Partner with mechanical, operations, and validation teams to mature high quality electrical designs to manufacturing; including supporting test infrastructure development to meet product coverage and yield targets
• Leverage expertise in product development (define/build/test), and have extensive prior experience launching product

Skills

Electrical Eng

Power Integrity

Signal Integrity

High Speed Signaling

PCB Layout

EMI/EMC Analysis

CAD Tools

Lab Instruments

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

CAD Tools

Oscilloscopes

Spectrum Analyzers

Network Analyzers

TDR

DMMs

Job description

Aurora is hiring a Staff Electrical Engineer to lead electronics development for our custom hardware in a hybrid Mountain View setting. You will design, simulate, and validate high-speed signaling and power integrity across board and system levels.

The role requires 8+ years in complex electrical hardware, CAD-driven layouts, and hands-on bench work with lab instruments, contributing to manufacturing-ready designs and rapid product launches.