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Hardware Engineer

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-04 → 2026-07-31

Core

Designing, characterizing, integrating, and validating hardware for autonomous construction machinery to solve physical-world problems in the built environment.

Role type

Senior IC hardware engineer (autonomous systems)

Builds

Retrofitted autonomous construction machines for heavy infrastructure projects

Domain

Construction industry + autonomous vehicle hardware

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

electrical design, testing and deployment of hardware in rugged environments, leading HW development programs (ideation to production), high performance/power edge compute, autonomous sensing technologies (lidar, camera, radar, GNSS, IMUs), packaging and integration for rugged environments, high speed signaling, C/C++/Rust/Python

Preferred skills

camera and optics design, camera imaging pipeline, sensor cleaning hardware, high performance embedded compute (Nvidia Jetson), communication protocols (GMSL, PCIe, CAN, etc.), system engineering requirements definition and V&V, ISO26262/ISO16750/SAE J1455 standards, large commercial construction equipment electrical and mechanical HW

Technologies

Nvidia Jetson, GMSL, FPDlink, PCIe, multi GigE, A2B, CAN, UART, SPI, RS232/422/485, Python, C++, Rust, Linux bash, lidar, radar, cameras, GNSS, IMUs

Responsibilities

Define system and component level HW architecture for autonomous machines, establish and lead relationships with external vendors for critical components, work with safety team to establish requirements and performance metrics, write reusable sensor data analysis and test automation software

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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