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Job Summary:
This position is offered in the Cruise Hardware Integrity group. As a Senior Staff Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the hardware reliability of our products and services. You will lead the technical problem-solving and issue triage efforts, analyze root causes of failures, develop corrective actions, and implement reliability improvement initiatives. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including design, manufacturing, quality, and operations, to ensure that our AV products meet high standard requirements for reliability and availability.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the technical problem-solving and issue triage efforts for reliability issues across silicon chips, printed circuit boards, and full module assemblies, including analyzing data, identifying root causes, and developing corrective actions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that our products meet our AV component requirements for reliability and availability.
- Develop and maintain reliability metrics to track product and system performance, and drive continuous improvement initiatives to improve reliability.
- Perform reliability assessments, including reliability prediction, FMEA, and fault tree analysis, to identify potential failure modes and recommend design changes.
- Participate in design reviews to provide input on reliability requirements, failure modes, and mitigation strategies.
- Develop and maintain reliability test plans and procedures, and lead the execution of reliability tests to validate product and system performance.
- Mentor and coach junior reliability engineers, and provide technical guidance to cross-functional teams on reliability and failure analysis topics.
Requirements:
- Master’s degree in Engineering or related field. Ph.D. degree preferred.
- Minimum of 15 years of experience in a reliability engineering role, with a focus on hands-on problem-solving and continuous improvement.
- Strong understanding of the physics behind material properties (thermal, mechanical, electrical, and optical).
- Strong analytical skills, including experience with statistical analysis, root cause analysis, and failure analysis techniques.
- Knowledge of EE/FA tools and methods such as EE debugging, SI debugging, OM inspection, SEM, X-ray, etc.
- Knowledge of reliability tools and methods, such as reliability prediction, FMEA, fault tree analysis, and reliability testing.
- Experience in designing and implementing reliability improvement initiatives, including developing and tracking metrics and driving corrective actions.
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior leaders.
- Ability to manage multiple projects at once, and ability to complete tests and resolve problems in an unattended manner.
- Dynamic and “can do” attitude engineer with the desire to work with a great team and product.
- Experience in automotive ECUs, sensors, or calibration is a plus.
The salary range for this position is $184,300 - 270,900. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change.
Why Cruise?
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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
- Subsidized mental health benefits
- Flexible vacation and company paid holidays
- Healthy meals and snacks provided for non-remote employees
- Paid parental, jury duty, bereavement, family care, and medical 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
- CruiseFlex, a working policy for US-Based Cruisers, lets you and your manager find the working style that’s best for you, whether it’s primarily in-person, primarily at home, or a combination of home and in-office time. - learn more about CruiseFlex here
- GM, Honda, Microsoft, T. Rowe Price, and Walmart 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 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.
- 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. We offer a new kind of equity program called Recurring Liquidity Opportunity (RLO), which combines IPO-like liquidity with the stability of remaining private - learn more about RLO here
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We’re Safety Conscious
- We integrate #staysafe, our top priority at Cruise, into our everyday work. Through our Safety Management System, every Cruiser is asked to do their part by reporting any potential issues or hazards they observe and making continuous improvements. You’ll be able to contribute to safety at Cruise, no matter your job function or title.
Cruise LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a supportive and inclusive workplace where contributions are valued and celebrated, and our employees thrive by being themselves and are inspired to do the best work of their lives. We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, caste, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, or disability. Applicants will not be discriminated against based on these or other protected categories or social identities. Cruise will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable laws.
Cruise is committed to the full inclusion of all applicants. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process please let our recruiting team know or email [email protected].
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