The Sensing Hardware Team is seeking a hardware engineer specializing in motion sensing with 3+ years of industry experience. The role will primarily focus on developing motion sensing technologies for FSD (full-self driving), vehicle control, and safety features. As a Sensor Hardware Engineer, you will be responsible for the overall performance of the sensing system and its features at any point in the product life cycle; serve as the owner of a given sensing system to address any issues discovered from development through deployment; understand and debug hardware and software interactions from prototyping through product launch; and manage priorities and support a host of projects simultaneously.
- Specification generation: distill sensor product requirements into constraints and actionable engineering systems design discussions
- Collaboration: lead cross-functional sensor design discussions with electrical, software, supply chain, manufacturing, thermal, mechanical and service teams
- Architecture definition: translate sensor design discussions into architecture and design documents in the form of system block diagrams, functional and performance requirements; define hardware and software interfaces
- Schematic & PCB Layout: Collaborate with board designers to review schematics and guide layout from motion-sensing perspective and perform bring-up and validations
- BOM definition: work with the supply chain team to ensure components will meet performance, cost & manufacturing requirements
- Prototyping: support early sensor prototype development to de-risk new technologies
- Hardware Validation: generate/execute bench-level motion sensing validation plans; work with other electrical engineers to validate the electrical and EMC performance; work with reliability team to qualify the performance over various lifetime conditions
- Production: work with manufacturing team and test team to define manufacturing process and test coverage to achieve high-volume mass production with high yield
- Feature Validation: define feature readiness milestones and qualification criteria; develop data collection and analysis pipeline at all stages of the project
- Service & Improvement: work with software team and service team to monitor the feature and sensing performance, develop the triage and failure analysis workflow and investigate improvement opportunities from all aspects
- Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or related field, with 3+ years of industry experience, or equivalent experience
- Deep understanding of motion sensing in terms of sensor physics, feature development and integration challenges
- Fundamental knowledge of sensor physics, circuit design, analog analysis and statistics
- Hands-on experience in system-level design, architecture, characterization and validation