Senior Staff Hardware Engineer, AV Systems – AV Labs

Senior Staff Hardware Engineer, AV Systems – AV Labs Department: Engineering Team: Machine Learning Location: Sunnyvale, United States Type: Full-Time **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 will be 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 (millions of Uber trips every hour across cities, conditions, and edge cases create the data autonomy has been missing). We will build platforms that harness scale and real-world complexity to reimagine how the world moves. We are seeking a Sr. Staff Hardware Engineer to serve as the overarching architect for our entire sensing and compute platform. In this role, you will look across the entire vehicle platform definition & topology, balancing the trade-offs between sensor fidelity, compute throughput, thermal constraints, and power delivery. **What You Will Do:** - System Architecture & Topology: Define the overarching L4 hardware architecture, determining the optimal sensor placement (FoV coverage vs. vehicle aerodynamics), sensor mix (redundancy vs. cost), and compute topology (centralized vs. zonal) to meet safety and data collection goals. - Strategic Supplier Engagement: Own the technical roadmap relationships with key industry partners, influencing their future product definitions. - Multi-Modal Integration: Solve complex system-level challenges such as multi-sensor time synchronization, electromagnetic interference mitigation between high-power compute and sensitive RF sensors, and centralized thermal management strategies. - Vehicle Platform Integration: Lead the technical interface with OEM partners to define the mechanical, electrical, and logical touchpoints between sensing & compute suite and the base vehicle platform. - Technical Leadership: Serve as a m