Job Description
The Vehicle Platform Systems Engineer at Aurora is responsible for leading technical investigations, designing and executing tests, developing system mitigations, and coordinating cross-functional efforts to troubleshoot and improve complex drive-by-wire and vehicle system behaviors in autonomous vehicles.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end field investigations of complex vehicle system behaviors
- Design and execute investigative testing to reproduce and analyze issues
- Develop and validate technical mitigations for field issues
- Translate field data into updated system requirements and detection methods
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams to implement and validate system fixes
- Compile technical evidence to support vehicle operational restrictions and remediations
- Travel to operational locations for field issue investigations
Requirements
- Proven expertise in diagnosing issues related to system interactions on automated vehicles or other robotic systems, including using hand held diagnostic equipment such as multimeters and oscilloscopes, as well as industry standard diagnostic service equipment like Cummins Insite, Eaton Service Ranger, International Diamond Builder, and KB Diag.
- Experience setting up and deploying data acquisition devices for analog current, voltage, temperature, and digital CAN logging domains.
- Proficiency in analyzing large amounts of data from various sources such as autonomy logs, telematics, diagnostic tools, CAN traces, and operator statements to reconstruct event sequences during failures and identify correlations within the system and across the fleet.
- In-depth knowledge of automotive and commercial vehicle communication networks and standards including J1939 CAN and LIN, covering physical layer and application layer implementation and troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of common automotive power generation and distribution architectures and components.
- Understanding of common cause and cascading faults, fault-tolerant, and fail-operational architectures intended to mitigate them.
- Ability to convert complex forensic findings into clear, verifiable engineering requirements and updated analyses such as FMEAs.
- Experience creating test plans for validating fixes on system benches, Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) setups, and on vehicles.
- Skill in synthesizing high-density log data and engineering analysis into clear, executive-level summaries that support operational decisions.
- Ability to aggregate findings for sharing with partners or suppliers to enable internal investigation or justify change requests.
- Experience in leading end-to-end field investigations for complex drive-by-wire and base vehicle system behaviors, from initial triage through root cause identification and final resolution.
- Ability to design and execute structured test plans to reproduce issues in controlled environments, utilizing track testing, fault-injection, HIL testing, and customized test tools as necessary.
- Propose and validate short-term and long-term mitigations for field issues, including software changes, hardware architecture revisions, or operational constraint modifications.
- Translate field data into updated functional requirements, such as new detection methods and escalating fault responses to improve product performance.
- Act as the primary technical point of contact between Hardware Engineering, Embedded Software, Controls Engineering, Field Service, and Safety teams to implement and validate fixes for complex system-level behaviors.
- Compile technical evidence and data-driven rationales to support restrictions on the operational status of specific vehicles or configurations, and the necessary short- and long-term remediations to lift those restrictions.
- Travel to Aurora Operations locations where field issues are discovered for investigation, representing 25-30% of total work time.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot complex systems involving automated vehicles or robotic systems, including diagnosing issues related to system interactions.
- Strong understanding of automotive system architecture, including physical and logical aspects of communication networks and power systems.
- Excellent technical communication skills in synthesizing detailed log data and engineering analysis into clear summaries for decision-making.
Benefits & Perks
Base salary range of $135,000 to $216,000 per year
Annual bonus eligibility
Equity compensation
Hybrid work environment with in-office presence at least 3 days per week
Benefits (unspecified, but implied as part of compensation package)
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