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We’re building the world’s most advanced, self-driving vehicles to safely connect people to the places, things, and experiences they care about. We believe self-driving vehicles will help save lives, reshape cities, give back time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for many.

Cruisers have the opportunity to grow and develop while learning from leaders at the forefront of their fields. With a culture of internal mobility, there's an opportunity to thrive in a variety of disciplines. This is a place for dreamers and doers to succeed.

If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving cars, join us.

As Cruise scales up in multiple cities across USA and globally, we are looking for a skilled Hardware Test Engineer to debug and triage systems level issues encompassing compute units and network switches. This is a very multi-functional role where the candidate will have to work with our Hardware, Software, Systems and Fleet Operations teams. If you're interested in working with the autonomous vehicle on testing and debugging hardware systems, then let's chat!

This is a great opportunity for individuals to apply transferable skills and experience from another industry, such as aerospace / avionics, defense, industrial, power, telecommunications, UAVs / drones, robotics, automated manufacturing, or medical instrumentation.

What you’ll be doing:

• Validate hardware and firmware against component level requirements and define test plan including spirent/ixia traffic generator

• Perform regression testing on all new and existing hardware/firmware to ensure forward and backward compatibility on our fleet including garage and road testing

• Design and implement test tools for the review and verification process. Refining existing process to improve test and validation coverage of new boards during design phase

• Accurately and efficiently document test results, analyze data, and communicate results with the team and various stakeholders while continually improving test methods

• Review existing component, system benches, and existing fleet and identify gaps and propose/implement process improvements with primary focus on compute and network switches

• Work cross-functionally to maintain bug tracker and feedback lessons learned to design team

• Work with Tier 1 / 2 / Contract Manufacturers vendors on component development and testing strategies, clarify technical queries on testing and validation

What you must have:

• BS in Electrical Engineering or related technical field

• 5+ years of experience with hardware validation with proficiency in: ethernet switch design, high speed interface design and validation, compliance tests for different standards such as IEEE (Ethernet), FPD, MIPI, DDR, PCIe

• Strong knowledge in electrical engineering fundamentals, power & signal integrity, and analog/digital circuits

• Experience using lab equipment such as bench power supplies, high-speed oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and common lab equipments

• Experience with high speed interfaces such as: 25G-KR, 10G-KR, 10GBase-T, SFP, QSFP, 1G-T1, PCIe, DDR4, as well as I2C, MDIO

• Good understanding and comfortable working in Linux environment

Bonus Points!

• Automotive industry experience

• Experience with requirements management tool like DOORS, Jama, etc

The salary range for this position is $114,300 - 168,000. 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?

• Our benefits are here to support the whole you:
• Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and life insurance
• Subsidized mental health benefits
• One Medical membership
• Flexible Spending Account 
• Monthly wellness stipend
• 401(k) match 
• Paid time off: vacation, sick, public health emergency, jury duty, bereavement and company holidays. 
• Paid parental, family care and medical leave
• Family care benefits: fertility benefits, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (subsidized by Cruise).
• Non-remote employees: Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan, healthy meals and snacks 
• CruiseFlex - a working policy for US-Based Cruisers that lets you and your manager find what working style is best for you, whether it’s primarily in-person, primarily at home or a combination of home and in-office time.