What you’ll be doing:

• Work with the Business Development team to provide formal responses to customer elicitations (RFIs & RFQs)
• Lead systems architecture team in defining & documenting new product capabilities, architectures, and HW/SW subsystem requirements
• Capture & document explicit and implicit customer requirements
• Provide technical guidance to customers as they evaluate Aeva’s products
• Help refine and mature Aeva’s systems engineering methodology
• Define and document requirements for the system
• Evaluate change requests, propose new product configurations and architectures to meet customer needs
• Lead systems engineering team in flowing down requirements to subsystems
• Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to evaluate various system trade-offs
• Advocate for necessary changes to subsystems
• Work with product org, engineering management, & leadership team to define product roadmap

What you have:

• PhD in relevant field
• 10 years industry experience
• 2 years of experience in a customer-facing role
• A broad and deep technical background with direct experience in lidar design and development
• Experince interacting with customers and other stakeholders in collecting and distilling requirements
• Subject matter expertise in at least one area of: optical beamsteering, lidar rangefinding, mixed-signal electronics, optics, optomechanics
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

What’s in it for you:

• Be part of a fast paced and dynamic team
• Very competitive compensation and meaningful stock grants
• Exceptional benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, and more
• Unlimited PTO: We care about results, not punching timecards