Senior Product Quality Engineer, Aeva
$125.8-170.2k
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Office located in Mountain View, CA
4DLiDAR for autonomous naviation
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4DLiDAR for autonomous naviation
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$125.8-170.2k
More information about location
Office located in Mountain View, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring the next wave of perception to a broad range of applications from automated driving to industrial robotics, consumer electronics, consumer health, security, and beyond.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical discipline
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in a Manufacturing or Quality role within the automotive industry or other advanced manufacturing industries
- Expert in automotive quality management standards and AIAG core tools including Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Statistical Process Control (SPC), Measurement System Analysis (MSA), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)
- Fluent in reading technical drawings and solid understanding of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T)
- Experienced qualifying mechanical or optical metrology tools
- Self- starter who is able to manage multiple projects simultaneously and adapt to new challenges within a fast paced environment
- Strong problem-solving skills and experience with root cause analysis and corrective action processes
- Fluent in English with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Desirable
- Experience in manufacturing advanced optical sensor systems
- Certified Quality Management Systems auditor (e.g., ISO 9001, IATF16949) or VDA 6.3 process auditor
- Working experience with Jira, Confluence and TeamCenter is a plus
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Product Quality Engineer to join our dynamic team
- In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing the production quality of Aeva’s state-of-the-art 4D LiDAR
- As a key member of our team, you will act as the primary quality liaison between Aeva and its contract manufacturers and ensure excellence throughout the manufacturing process
- Lead and manage quality assurance activities throughout the entire production lifecycle, from New Product Introduction (NPI) through Start of Production (SOP) and into full-scale manufacturing
- Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain teams to ensure quality requirements are met at all stages
- Drive root cause analysis and corrective action processes to address product quality issues
- Develop and implement a comprehensive quality plan aligned with automotive standards such as IATF 16949
- Implement APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) processes with our contract manufacturers from the initial design stage through PPAP submission
- Review and approve process validation plans and establish a robust quality control plan to achieve zero defects
- Evaluate the capability and effectiveness of manufacturing processes, procedures, production tools and test equipment
- Conduct regular process audits to ensure compliance with automotive quality requirements and best practices
- Lead quality initiatives to improve and sustain product quality at scale
- Ensure any changes in design, process, or material are thoroughly reviewed for potential quality impacts and implemented in a controlled manner
- Develop and maintain key quality metrics and report these metrics to senior management
Our take
The development of self-driving cars presents enormous opportunities for transportation, shipping, and ride-hailing industries, but getting these cars to run flawlessly is difficult. Cameras and radar sensors are used to detect obstacles for safe automated driving, but existing technology does not analyze enough data to meet these expectations.
Aeva builds sensory perception technology that maps the physical world around a vehicle on a granular basis to contribute towards the development of fully self-driving cars. The sensory system relies on what the company describes as being the world’s first 4D LiDAR-on-Chip. This technology comprises sensors that detect objects and events up to 300m away, recognize velocity-per-pixel, and are immune to interference from neighbouring frequencies.
Companies such as Tesla are already developing successful and safe fully self-driving software for their cars, but Aeva's approach to LiDAR presents some serious competition to the existing camera-based technology. Despite further competition from Luminar and Velodyne, Aeva remains unique and has even secured a partnership with NVIDIA to integrate its 4D LiDAR into the DRIVE Hyperion autonomous vehicle platform, placing its technology at the core of how future self-driving cars will see, understand, and safely navigate the road.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2018
$45m
SERIES A
Jan 2017
$3.5m
SEED
Total funding: $48.5m
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Soroush Salehian
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Mechanical Engineering at Stanford before founding BlueLibris in June 2010. They then spent almost 5 years as an Apple Product Development Manager before co-founding Aeva in January 2017.
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