Senior Director, Mining Autonomous Platform (AV Platform Engineering)

Required

• Required: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field with 12+ years of relevant experience, or a master's with 10+.
• Experience leading engineers on an autonomous or similar program, including hiring, setting technical direction, and delivering against committed dates.
• Ownership of a vehicle or machine integration platform from architecture through field deployment, with personal accountability for how the system was installed, validated, and supported.
• Hands-on experience with machine and vehicle networks (CAN, CAN FD, automotive Ethernet); drive-by-wire and actuation integration; electrical and harness architecture for harsh environments; embedded compute and sensor integration; hardware-in-the-loop and bench validation.
• Experience converting bespoke, per-customer or per-platform engineering into a configurable product with documented interfaces.
• Working understanding of autonomous systems end to end, including sensing, perception, localization, planning, controls, and the associated safety architecture.
• Track record of establishing reliability, availability, or failure-rate measurement that changed how an organization set priorities.
• Experience acting as the senior technical presence at a customer or partner site during a launch or a failure.
• Strong written practice covering architecture documents, integration specifications, and failure analyses.
• Willingness to travel regularly to active mine and quarry sites, domestic and international. Site work requires PPE, lifting up to 50 lbs, and working at rack level, on machines, and in operating pits, with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Ability to work onsite five days a week in San Francisco.