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Cruise is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Power Integrity Engineer to join our dynamic team. Proficiency in Signal Integrity is a big plus! As a Power Integrity expert, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the robustness and reliability of our SoC, SiP, and board systems, by designing, analyzing, and optimizing power delivery networks and ensuring integrity across our products. Your expertise will contribute to the development of cutting-edge Autonomous Vehicle technologies and enable us to deliver high-quality, high-performance self-driving cars.
What you’ll be doing:
- Power Integrity Analysis: Perform power integrity analysis for SoC, SiP, and board systems, including power distribution network (PDN) design, decoupling capacitor selection and placement, power integrity simulations, and power noise characterization.
- Power Delivery Network Design: Design and optimize power delivery networks for complex electronic systems, ensuring low power noise, adequate decoupling, and efficient power distribution.
- PCB Design Support: Collaborate with PCB designers to provide guidance and support in power integrity aspects of PCB layout, ensuring proper placement of decoupling capacitors, controlled impedance routing, and optimal stack-up design.
- Component Selection and Evaluation: Work closely with cross-functional teams to select and evaluate power-related components, including power regulators, decoupling capacitors, and magnetics, based on system requirements and performance objectives.
- Test and Measurement: Develop and execute test plans to validate power integrity performance of electronic systems using advanced test equipment in the lab. Analyze and interpret measurement results.
- Design Optimization: Identify opportunities for design improvements and propose innovative solutions to enhance power integrity performance. Collaborate with design teams to implement recommended changes and validate their impact.
What you must have:
- BS/MS/PhD in electrical engineering with 10+ years of related experience.
- Proven experience in power integrity analysis, and design optimization for electronic systems, including SoC, SiP, and board systems.
- Strong knowledge of power delivery network design, including PDN impedance control, decoupling capacitor selection and placement, and power integrity simulation tools.
- Experience with PCB layout design and understanding of PCB manufacturing processes.
- Hands-on experience with test and measurement equipment for power integrity characterization.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to analyze complex systems to identify potential issues and propose effective solutions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively present technical information to cross-functional teams and leadership.
Bonus Points:
- Skillful on signal integrity analysis to optimize high-speed digital signal paths, including controlled impedance routing, termination schemes, crosstalk analysis, and eye diagram analysis.
- Hands-on experience with test and measurement equipment for signal integrity characterization.
The salary range for this position is $161,500 - $237,500. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change.
Why Cruise?
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Our benefits are here to support the whole you:
- Competitive salary and benefits
- 401(k) Cruise matching program
- Medical / dental / vision, AD+D and Life
- Subsidized mental health benefits
- Flexible vacation and company paid holidays
- Healthy meals and snacks available for non-remote employees
- Paid parental, jury duty, bereavement, family care, and medical leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
- Flexible Spending Account
- Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan for non-remote employees
- CruiseFlex, a working policy for US-Based Cruisers, lets you and your manager find the working style that’s best for you, whether it’s primarily in-person, primarily at home, or a combination of home and in-office time. - learn more about CruiseFlex here
- GM, Honda, Microsoft, T. Rowe Price, and Walmart have invested billions in Cruise. Their backing for our technology demonstrates their confidence in our progress, team, and vision and makes us one of the leading autonomous vehicle organizations in the industry. Our deep resources greatly accelerate our operating speed.
- We have our own governance, board of directors, equity, and investors. Our independence allows us to not just work on the edge of technology, but also define it.
- You won’t just own your work here, you’ll have the potential to own equity in Cruise, too. We are competing in a market that is projected to grow exponentially, which gives our company valuation room to grow. We offer a new kind of equity program called Recurring Liquidity Opportunity (RLO), which combines IPO-like liquidity with the stability of remaining private - learn more about RLO here
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We’re Safety Conscious
- We integrate #staysafe, our top priority at Cruise, into our everyday work. Through our Safety Management System, every Cruiser is asked to do their part by reporting any potential issues or hazards they observe and making continuous improvements. You’ll be able to contribute to safety at Cruise, no matter your job function or title.
Cruise LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a supportive and inclusive workplace where contributions are valued and celebrated, and our employees thrive by being themselves and are inspired to do the best work of their lives. We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, caste, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, or disability. Applicants will not be discriminated against based on these or other protected categories or social identities. Cruise will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable laws.
Cruise is committed to the full inclusion of all applicants. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process please let our recruiting team know or email [email protected].
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