Aurora Innovation
Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer
$150K–$220K
Mountain View, CA · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
About the job
Leads hardware reliability assessments, failure analysis, and cross-functional efforts to ensure Aurora Driver hardware meets automotive reliability standards and can scale to production.
What you'll do
- Evaluate internal and external hardware designs and develop reliability test campaigns.
- Own complex reliability failures and drive corrective actions and design or process mitigations.
- Collaborate across engineering, operations, software, and manufacturing teams to apply reliability findings.
What they ask for
- Experience developing and validating hardware products, such as compute systems and automotive sensors.
- Understanding of failure physics for electronic, mechanical, and optoelectronic components.
- Ability to design and execute shock, vibration, and thermal reliability test flows for contract manufacturing environments.
- Proficiency analyzing hardware performance data.
Nice to have
- Experience leading R&D at automotive companies; familiarity with AEC-Q, ISO-16750, and other automotive reliability standards.
- Experience with manufacturing reliability, hardware-firmware interaction, material science, PCBAs, or conformal coating.
Pay
USD $150,000 - $220,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
AEC-Q, ISO-16750, BGA
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