Senior Electronics Engineer, Vay
+ Stock options
Onsite 70%, Remote 30%
Driverless mobility service
Be an early applicant
Driverless mobility service
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Stock options
Onsite 70%, Remote 30%
101-200 employees
Company mission
To speed up the rollout of driverless mobility services by using its remote human-assisted driving technologies to build trust in its services.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering (or equivalent)
- 7+ years of experience in electronics design and development
- Strong expertise in high-speed digital design and validation (PCIe, USB3, DDR, SerDes for camera links, etc)
- Proven experience in automotive networking (Automotive Ethernet, CAN FD, LIN a plus)
- Hands-on, consolidated experience in bringing products from prototype through validation to full-scale production
- Solid knowledge of PCB design (Altium Designer preferred), signal integrity, and power distribution
- Experience with EMI/EMC design and validation
- Familiarity with vehicle analysis tools such as Vector CANoe or comparable platforms
- Strong understanding of automotive electronics and safety standards (ISO 26262)
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with hands-on debugging and validation experience
What the job involves
- This isn’t your standard electronics engineering role. As our Senior Electronics Engineer, you’ll design and deliver advanced electronic systems for our next-generation vehicles and remote driving platforms
- You’ll work across high-speed buses, SerDes camera links, and automotive-grade networks to bring complex designs from prototype all the way to production
- If you want to combine deep technical expertise with hands-on impact in the fast-moving world of mobility, this is your chance
- Design, develop, and validate complex electronic systems for our vehicles and teleoperation platforms
- Integrate and optimize high-speed interfaces, including PCI-Express, USB3, DDRx, SerDes (camera links), Automotive Ethernet, and CAN FD
- Deliver the full lifecycle of electronics development: from concept and schematic design to PCB layout (or managing/reviewing from Externals), prototyping, vehicle integration, testing, and production release
- Apply strong fundamentals in signal integrity, EMI/EMC compliance, and automotive safety standards (ISO 26262)
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (software, systems, testing, and mechanical) to ensure system-level performance and reliability
- Use Altium Designer for PCB design and Vector CANoe (or similar tools) for bus/system analysis and validation
- Work closely with suppliers, manage BOMs, and support sourcing and industrialization
- Own troubleshooting, debugging, and root-cause analysis of prototypes and production hardware
Our take
Driverless cars are often considered as the future of transport, but the AI-driven innovation is not yet powerful and safe enough to be made publically available. Furthermore, it is anticipated that many people would not trust AI-driven driverless cars regardless of their state of development, preferring to know that a human is behind the wheel.
Vay develops autonomous driving hardware powered by "teledriving", a system in which cars are driven remotely by humans. The German company will begin by providing orderable cars that can be driven manually by the customer but parked remotely by Vay staff, with future use cases including full remote rides, ride-sharing, last-mile delivery, and public transport.
Whilst other companies such as Mobileye have made plans to provide driverless cars to German cities, Vay is standing out with its unique focus on the trust of teledriving. Furthermore, the initial focus on autonomous parking will greatly speed up rollout and give the company a competitive edge. 2024 funding is being used to expand its development team and grow its European market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 2021
$95m
SERIES B
May 2019
$14.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $109.5m
Company benefits
- You will be part of a highly committed, experienced, fun and international team from over 25 countries
- You'll be a part of improving transportation in metropolitan areas around the world - from Europe
- We offer healthy snacks, drinks and coffee in our modern waterfront office in Hamburg
- We have a generous, highly employee-friendly stock option plan and pay above industry standards
- We organize thoughtful & fun team events throughout the year
- We support highly flexible working policies where possible as well as support for your relocation – it doesn’t matter where you currently live
- We contribute to a FitX or UrbanSportsClub membership, plus free and all-day use of our Gravity Gym in the Berlin office
- We contribute to your monthly public transport ticket in Berlin so that it costs you <50% of the regular price
Company HQ
Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Thomas von der Ohe
(CEO & Co-Founder)Experience as Senior Technical Program Manager for Amazon Lab126 between 2014 and 2016. Technical Program Manager for Zoox Inc. between 2016 and 2018. Co-founded Vay as CEO in 2018.
Fabrizio Ugo Scelsi
(CTO & Co-Founder)Founded autonomous driving company Mov.ING in 2014, acting as CTO until 2017.
Bogdan Djukic
(VP of Engineering & Co-Founder)Experience as a Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft between 2013 and 2017.
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