Senior Vehicle Reliability Engineer

Aurora Innovation Aurora Innovation · Robotics · DFW1 · Software Engineering

This role supports the third shift of Aurora's autonomous vehicle operations by troubleshooting, diagnosing, and tracking issues encountered by the fleet. The technician will provide technical support for software/hardware issues, perform root cause analysis, collaborate with engineering teams, and create run books. Responsibilities include sensor calibrations, fleet upgrades, and new platform bring-up.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide technical support to vehicles that encounter software or hardware issues.
  2. Troubleshoot and perform general root cause analysis for common software and hardware faults across all quickly developing platforms.
  3. Collaborate with engineers, operations and product to improve product performance, drive down faults, and maximize test efficiency
  4. Triage of vehicle issues providing data, analysis, and support to engineering teams to determine root cause and corrective actions
  5. Creation of run books to facilitate standard and accelerated troubleshooting

Skills

Required

  • 2+ years of experience with the Linux Operating System in a support and troubleshooting capacity.
  • Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skills from inception through documentation and closure
  • Experience working with various complex hardware and software systems including lidar, radar, cameras, and computers
  • Detail oriented self starter with strong desire to learn new skills and the ability to work independently with minimal supervision
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate across different teams, offices, and time zones
  • Ability to wear different hats and quickly multitask
  • Excellent documentation skills

Nice to have

  • BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or related STEM field
  • Previous automotive or AV technical experience
  • Deep understanding of computer networking systems
  • Programming skills (e.g Python, Go, C++, SQL)

What the JD emphasized

  • third shift
  • troubleshooting
  • diagnosing
  • tracking all issues
  • software or hardware issues
  • root cause analysis
  • engineering teams