What you’ll be doing:

• LEADERSHIP:
• Manage a team of characterization test and analysis engineers.
• Interface directly with customers to understand and respond to their product performance concerns.
• Work cross-functionally with Aeva’s HW and SW engineering development teams to propose and implement performance improvements and artifact removals.
• Lead the planning and execution of a comprehensive Lidar characterization effort.
• Actively participate in product design reviews.
• LIDAR CHARACTERIZATION:
• Validate that the Lidar can meet the capability requirements consistent with the customer’s intent.
• Proactively and comprehensively characterize (i.e. test, simulate, and analyses) Aeva Lidars: per point performance, performance vs. Use Cases, environmental interactions, susceptibility to aggressors, impairments, and artifacts.
• Characterize the performance of all Aeva data products - e.g. point cloud, time stamping and frame/trigger synch, intrinsic, extrinsic, and online calibration, ego-motion estimation, point cloud motion compensation, and perception products.
• Respond to the Customer’s performance concerns, including replicating, root causing, and developing solution roadmaps. 
• Develop Aeva vs. competitor comparison analysis, highlighting the benefits and drawbacks of all systems.

What you have:

• MS or Ph.D. with 5+ years working experience in characterization testing, simulation, and analysis of Optical and/or RF sensor systems.
• Strong background and experience in the development, lab level testing, and the analysis of optical systems.
• Experience developing automated test SW, with proficiency in Matlab, Python, and C.
• Strong background in Optical and/or digital signal processing.
• Excellent written and verbal interpersonal skills.
• Leadership and team management skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple projects at the same time with proven success in meeting deadlines.

Nice to have:

• 1+ years managing a team in a similar space.
• Knowledge and experience with systems engineering.
• Knowledge of photonics elements and their integration including PICs - different material platforms, types of lasers, types of optical amplifiers, types of detectors, and free-space optics. 
• Knowledge and experience with automotive standards.
• Knowledge and experience with reliability and qualification testing.
• Knowledge and experience with optical, silicon, electrical, and mechanical manufacturing processes and testing from wafer level to module level FATP.

What’s in it for you:

• Be part of an early start-up that’s backed by industry-leading venture capitalists
• Very competitive compensation and meaningful stock grants
• Exceptional benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, and more
• Unlimited PTO: We care about results, not punching timecard
• Paid lunches, ping pong tournaments, and fun team off-sites