Aurora
Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer
$150K–$220K
Mountain View, CA · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
About the job
Leads reliability assessments, testing, and failure analysis for next-generation hardware systems used in Aurora’s autonomous driving technology.
What you'll do
- Evaluate internal and external hardware designs and develop reliability test campaigns.
- Lead complex failure analysis and corrective actions, including short-term contamination controls and longer-term design or process mitigations.
- Collaborate with engineering, operations, software, and manufacturing teams to apply reliability findings to design and production.
What they ask for
- Proven experience developing and validating hardware products, such as compute systems and automotive sensors.
- Understanding of failure physics for electronic, mechanical, and optoelectronic components in hardware systems.
- Ability to design and execute reliability test flows, including shock, vibration, and thermal testing, for contract manufacturing environments.
- Proficiency analyzing hardware performance data to generate actionable insights.
Nice to have
- Experience leading R&D at automotive companies; familiarity with AEC-Q, ISO-16750, or other automotive reliability standards.
- Experience evaluating manufacturing and assembly reliability, hardware-firmware interactions, or materials and PCBA reliability.
Pay
$150,000 - $220,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
AEC-Q, ISO-16750, PCBA, BGA
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