Senior Technical Lead, Sensor Assemblies
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We are seeking a Technical Lead to execute on the design, development, and production of sensor assemblies that integrate with purpose-built autonomous vehicles. These assemblies connect the sensor technology to the vehicle and balance requirements for sensing, data aggregation, power management, sensor cleaning, vehicle aerodynamics, and vehicle aesthetics. In this position, you will be responsible for collaborating with all the technical workstreams ; Sensors, Electrical, Mechanical, Software, and Test to ensure the component meets the requirements developed with Product, Systems, Reliability, Functional Safety, and Security teams. You and the Technical Program Manager and Supply Chain Manager of the component will manage cost and timing targets as well as any change requests. Externally you’ll work with industry experts at GM, Honda, and top global suppliers to realize the components and integrate them.
What you’ll be doing:
- Lead technical discussions and conduct design reviews with cross-functional teams and relevant internal and external stakeholders
- Collaborate with mechanical engineers and industrial designers to develop the assembly structure, thermal management, harness and hose routing, and interactions with the vehicle aesthetic-surface components.
- Collaborate with Systems Engineering and Architecture teams to drive the requirement's definition, analysis, development and documentation of assembly technical specifications
- Review test plans and test results ensuring requirements have been met by the hardware design
- Collaborate with Product, Safety, and Legal teams to ensure that the product meets all regulatory requirements
- Partner with Technical Project Management to track timelines, burn down risks, and seek opportunities
- Partner with Supply Chain Management to build supplier relationships and seek opportunities to reduce hardware development and unit costs
- Participate in feature/system safety analyses and component DFMEA
- Evaluate and lead all engineering change orders over the lifecycle of the product
What you must have:
- BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering, or Equivalent
- 8+ years of postgraduate experience developing automotive or aerospace components or assemblies
- Ability to understand complex technical systems, specifically relating to vehicle components and hardware integration
- Experience with key integration concepts such as tolerance, vibration, thermal, power, and data
- Experience with industrial design for automotive or consumer products
- Experience with a full product lifecycle from conception to mass production
- Familiarity with CAD tools such as NX, Solidworks, CATIA, etc.
- Technical collaborator with multidisciplinary teams including electrical, mechanical, and software engineering
- Design and certification experience to GMW, CISPR, or FCC/CE standards
- Excellent project management and supply chain management skills and collaboration with those teams
Bonus points!
- Experience integrating sensors such as LiDAR, RADAR, camera, and/or acoustics/ultrasonics
- Experience with sensor cleaning
- Experience with sensor calibration
- Experience in the automotive industry
- Familiarity with working in a mass production environment
- Experience with Automotive standards such as ISO26262 and AEC-Q100/200
- Our benefits are here to support the whole you:
- Competitive salary and benefits
- 401(k) Cruise matching program
- Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and Life
- One Medical membership
- Flexible vacation and company paid holidays
- Healthy meals and snacks provided for non-remote employees
- Paid parental leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, subsidized by Cruise
- Flexible Spending Account
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan for non-remote employees
- We’re Integrated
- Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale.
- We’re Funded
- GM, Honda, Microsoft, SoftBank, & T. Rowe Price, have invested billions in Cruise. Their backing for our technology demonstrates their confidence in our progress, team, and vision and makes us one of the leading autonomous vehicle organizations in the industry. Our deep resources greatly accelerate our operating speed.
- We’re Independent
- We have our own governance, board of directors, equity, and investors. Our independence allows us to not just work on the edge of technology, but also define it.
- We’re Vested
- You won’t just own your work here, you’ll have the potential to own equity in Cruise, too. We are competing in a market that is projected to grow exponentially, which gives our company valuation room to grow.
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