About the Role
Uber is launching AV Labs to accelerate the autonomous technology ecosystem. We're building out a high-velocity team of multi-disciplinary experts to turn real-world operations into high-quality data for our autonomous partners. This team is focused on the hardest problem in AV today: unlocking real-world, long-tail driving data. Autonomy is now a data race—and Uber has an edge: We collect rare, real-world driving data at a scale and capital efficiency no one else can match.
Our AV Labs Hardware team is pioneering the next-generation E/E architecture for our cutting-edge L4 data collection vehicle fleet. As an Electrical Engineer, you will design, develop, integrate, and validate electrical hardware from early concept through prototype builds and vehicle integration. You will work closely with senior electrical engineers and cross-functional teams to translate system requirements into reliable circuit, PCB, power distribution, and electrical interface designs.
This is a highly hands-on role with a strong focus on day-to-day electrical design, prototype bring-up, laboratory testing, troubleshooting, and design validation. You will help ensure that our hardware performs reliably across demanding automotive electrical, environmental, and vehicle operating conditions.
What You Will Do
- Design & Develop Electrical Hardware: Design circuits and PCB assemblies for autonomous vehicle hardware, including power distribution, compute, storage, sensor interfaces, and vehicle interface electronics. Own schematic design, component selection, design analysis, and PCB design reviews with consideration for SI/PI and EMI/EMC.
- Bring Up & Troubleshoot Hardware: Perform hands-on bring-up, characterization, and debugging of prototype hardware. Troubleshoot circuit, power, communication, and system-level issues using electrical lab equipment, perform root-cause analysis, and drive design improvements.
- Validate Electrical Designs: Develop and execute Design Validation Plans (DVP) to verify electrical performance, power integrity, thermal performance, protection and fault behavior, and communication interfaces. Support EMI/EMC, environmental, and automotive electrical testing and drive issues to resolution.
- Support Vehicle Electrical Integration: Support electrical hardware integration into autonomous vehicle platforms and prototype builds. Collaborate with E/E Architecture, Mechanical, Firmware, Software, Harness, and Vehicle Integration teams to resolve vehicle-level electrical and interface issues.
- Support Design Release: Maintain schematics, BOMs, and design/validation documentation, and participate in engineering design reviews. Support component qualification, engineering changes, prototype builds, and technical collaboration with suppliers and manufacturing partners.
Basic Qualifications
- Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline with 3+ years of hands-on experience in electrical hardware design, development, integration, and validation. Demonstrated ability to independently own circuit-level design and validation tasks while working within a broader system architecture.
- Core Electrical Design & Validation Expertise: Strong understanding of analog, digital, and power electronics fundamentals with hands-on experience designing and validating DC/DC converters, power distribution, protection circuits, and common digital interfaces. Experience performing schematic capture, component selection, PCB development, prototype bring-up, hardware debugging, root-cause analysis, and engineering validation. Strong laboratory skills using oscilloscopes, electronic loads, power supplies, multimeters, current probes, differential probes, and related measurement equipment.
- EDA, Documentation & Engineering Tools: Experience with professional schematic capture and PCB development tools such as OrCAD, Altium Designer, or equivalent. Ability to read and interpret component datasheets, application notes, schematics, PCB layouts, interface specifications, and engineering drawings. Experience developing engineering test procedures, documenting validation results, and communicating technical findings clearly across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Automotive & Autonomous Vehicle Hardware Experience: Experience developing electrical hardware for automotive, robotics, autonomous vehicles, aerospace, or other complex electromechanical systems. Familiarity with automotive 12 V and/or 48 V electrical systems, power distribution architectures, automotive-grade component selection, transient protection, sensor interfaces, and vehicle electrical integration.
- High-Speed Interfaces, Signal Integrity & EMI/EMC: Experience with automotive communication interfaces such as CAN/CAN-FD and Automotive Ethernet, as well as high-speed interfaces such as PCIe, GMSL/FPD-Link, USB, or Ethernet. Strong understanding of Signal Integrity (SI), Power Integrity (PI), grounding, shielding, filtering, and EMI/EMC mitigation techniques for PCB, harness, and system-level designs.
- Design Validation & Automotive Standards: Experience developing and executing Design Validation Plans and performing electrical, environmental, thermal, and EMC validation. Familiarity with automotive standards and test methods such as CISPR 25, ISO 16750, LV124, or related standards. Experience with automotive electrical transient testing, component derating, tolerance analysis, worst-case circuit analysis, DFMEA, DFM/DFA, and systematic failure analysis.
- Prototyping, Automation & Cross-Functional Development: Demonstrated success bringing up and debugging prototype hardware and resolving interdisciplinary electrical, mechanical, firmware, and vehicle integration issues. Experience developing engineering test fixtures and automated hardware test systems using Python or similar scripting languages. Experience working with component vendors, PCB/PCBA suppliers, contract manufacturers, or automotive suppliers to support prototype builds, design iterations, and production readiness.
For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $153,000 per year - USD $170,000 per year.
You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits.
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This isn't the kind of place where you follow a playbook — it's where you help write one. If you're driven by impact, energized by challenge, and ready to shape how the world moves — we'd love to hear from you.
You may be eligible for bonuses, equity, and other compensation, as well as a range of benefits. Explore our benefits.
Offices remain key to collaboration and Uber's culture. Unless approved for full remote work, employees must spend at least 50% of their time in-office. Some roles, like those at greenlight hubs, require full-time in-office presence. Ask your Recruiter for details about this role's requirements.
Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.
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