Job Description
The Staff Power Architect at Aurora is responsible for designing, developing, and testing electrical power systems for autonomous vehicle hardware, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure performance, safety, and manufacturability of electronic components.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and design electronics for Aurora's custom hardware systems.
- Gather requirements and define hardware power architecture.
- Model, integrate, test, and debug power electronic circuits.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to mature electrical designs for manufacturing.
- Support the development of test infrastructure to meet product coverage and yield targets.
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree with a focus in electrical or computer engineering.
- Six (6) years of experience in industry developing complex electrical hardware.
- Expertise in power architecture, signal and power integrity design and analysis, high speed signaling, grounding, and analog electronics.
- High proficiency and ability to analyze systems for balancing electro-mechanical and EMI/EMC constraints.
- Extensive experience with hardware productization at the system, board, and chip level implementation.
- Strong electrical engineering fundamentals supported by the use of CAD tools to manage PCB layout and leverage Power Signal simulation and emulation input.
- Experience in architecting, integrating, testing, and debugging power electronic circuits on the bench and in systems, leveraging software tools and advanced test equipment such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, DMMs, power supplies, and E-loads.
- Ability to collaborate with electrical, 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.
- Knowledge of system power converter modeling and simulation, electromagnetic modeling, analysis fundamentals, and simulation tools.
- Hands-on testing and troubleshooting skills in electrical hardware.
- Programming and scripting experience in C, Python, or equivalent languages.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range: $181,000 - $290,000 per year
Annual bonus
Equity compensation
Benefits (unspecified)
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