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CEPTON is seeking a Reliability and Quality Engineer to help us on hardware, firmware and system validation and reliability testing.

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Job Responsibilites

Developing and executing sophisticated validation and reliability testing including but not limited to, lifetime testing, accelerated life testing, performance degradation testing, mechanical vibration and shock testing and thermal cycling testing

Coordinating internal and external / 3rd party test resources

Develop and executing system level and module level life time testing and MTBF analysis

Supporting root cause analysis on manufacturing failure and field failure

Supporting/auditing manufacturing team for implementation of corrective actions

Qualifications

Masters or PhD Degree in EE, ME, Physics or applicable fields

5+ years of relevant experience in reliability, quality and validation

Strict discipline with good test practices: careful test design/setup/execution, rigorous failure analysis and documentation of all results

Attention to detail in defining the right pass/fail criteria and ability to do involved data analysis on test results

Experience with estimating product lifetimes, MTTF, etc.

Willingness to delve into details of any non-nominal system behavior and work collaboratively with Engineering to resolve the issues found

Strong initiative and motivation to obtain what you need to execute your tasks successfully

Ability to take a leadership role in driving quality and reliability into product design, introduction and manufacturing

Good communication and teamwork skills

Package

Competitive compensation package, including stock options

Comprehensive employee benefits program, including medical, dental, vision & more

Paid holidays and time off

Performance-based Spot Bonus

401K & Flexible Spending Accounts

Cepton Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender, veteran status, or on the basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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CEPTON is looking for a qualified Senior Safety System Engineer to drive safety engineering and development activities for our Lidar products targeted towards ADAS and AV markets. Our ideal candidate is someone with strong knowledge of automotive functional safety (e.g., ISO 26262) and experiences through the lifecycle of a major safety project w/ strong system mindset and experience. Potential candidates should be able to independently drive end-to-end safety design & engineering activities working closely with external consultants and Tier-1 partners for our next generation Lidar product.

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Job Responsibilites

Participate in developing LiDAR system and subsystem requirement and specs to meet safety requirements defined by OEM

Participate in developing architecture and system/subsystem error budget and tradeoff analysis in order to achieve the best balance between system performance and safety capability

Create verification plan and drive system & subsystem verification on safety functionality and marginality

Collaborate closely with cross-functional leaders to develop and implement a safety strategy, including both standard tools (e.g., hazard analysis, DFMEA, FMEDA, qualitative and quantitative fault tree analysis, ISO 26262 guidelines) and design techniques appropriate for our application

Collaborate closely with design engineers and Tier-1 supplier to build the overall safety case for the LiDAR sensor per automotive OEM requirements

Lead and support internal and external ISO 26262 efforts, understanding technical details well enough to generate documents and work products required by the ISO 26262 standard

Perform detailed systems reliability analyses (FIT rates, probabilistic failure analysis, fault tolerance analysis, etc.)

Write detailed safety requirements, including hardware and software requirements

Actively participate in product design review, quality, and reliability conversations to ensure that functional safety is a critical consideration in all decisions

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in engineering w/ 5+ years of experience in related field

Key knowledge about circuitry theory with good experience on circuit failure mode and analysis

Some basic knowledge with standard safety concepts, including but not limited to DFMEA, FMEDA, fault tree analysis, etc

Knowledge of ISO 26262 is big plus, but not necessary

Familiarity with automotive mechanical and electrical system architectures (e.g., ADAS systems) is a big plus but not necessary

Basic knowledge of the systems engineering process, hardware design process

Proven track record of translating and interpreting requirements from design to production

Knowledge and execution of review and release of functional safety content is preferred

Experience working with Autonomous Vehicles or other autonomous system and sensors is preferred

Reliable and independent work style, highly accountable and responsible for the outputs and working well under pressure.

Package

Competitive compensation package, including stock options

Comprehensive employee benefits program, including medical, dental, vision & more

Paid holidays and time off

Performance-based Spot Bonus

401K & Flexible Spending Accounts

Cepton Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender, veteran status, or on the basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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CEPTON is seeking a Senior Electrical Design Engineer to design and validate high speed electronics subsystem for LiDAR product development while supporting new product introduction to high volume manufacturing process to support automotive and non-automotive customers.

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Job Responsibilites

Design board-level solutions consisting of mixed signal circuitry with high speed ADC, FPGA's, memory, high speed LVDS, SPI, clocking and MPU devices

Be responsible for the design starting with concept and architecture followed by schematic design and layout through fabrication and assembly with coordination/kitting with assembly house, through final test and integration.

PCB schematic and layout design with OrCAD and Allegro, and able to run circuitry simulation w/ PSPICE or other simulation tools

Must be proficient in using all necessary Test & Measurement tools and techniques at or above 1 GHz.

Experience with ASIC development cycle is big plus,

Experience w/ FW, Ethernet, I2C communication is a plus

Is willing to work w/ Mfg & supplier to support volume ramp and PCB quality control

Reliable and independent work style, highly accountable and responsible for the outputs and working well under pressure.

Qualifications

Electrical engineering Bachelor degree or equivalent plus 10+ years of working experience in high-speed, mixed circuit board-level design, containing ADC, FPGA's & MCU's. Or Master and Ph.D. plus 5+ years of working experience

Ability to communicate and work effectively as a team player with other functional team member

Package

Competitive compensation package, including stock options

Comprehensive employee benefits program, including medical, dental, vision & more

Paid holidays and time off

Performance-based Spot Bonus

401K & Flexible Spending Accounts

Cepton Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender, veteran status, or on the basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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CEPTON is seeking a Senior Optomechanical Design Engineer to design and validate optical imaging subsystem for LiDAR product development, and also support new product introduction to high volume manufacturing process to support automotive and non-automotive customers.

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Job Responsibilites

Mechanical design, detailed drawings, tolerancing, and FEA analysis for strain, vibrational nodes, and modal analysis

Optical system design w/ Zemax modeling and simulation w/ strong optical analysis capability on key performance and tolerance errors

Assemble, qualify and debug new optical module and imaging subsystem, including light source, lens system and detection sensor

Develop optical tooling and fixture to assist high-precision alignment and assembling process

Establish optical subsystem build and qualification process and release reliable process to Mfg

Work w/ Mfg & supplier to support volume ramp and optical quality control

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Qualifications

Mechanical engineering Bachelor degree or equivalent plus 10+ years of working experience in the field, or Master and Ph.D. plus 5+ years of working experience

Strong experience with Zemax and a standard CAD package, preferably Solidworks, Ansys, including FEA ability to communicate

Solid knowledge on optical system, optical design and optical material

Good experience and design skillset with optomechanical assemblies

Strong hand-on skill-set on assembling, testing and troubleshooting capability w/ optical system

Good experience w/ optical element vendors and design house for new product development as well as ramping up volume production

Work effectively as a team player with other functional team members

Reliable and independent work style, highly accountable and responsible for the outputs and working well under pressure.

Package

Competitive compensation package, including stock options

Comprehensive employee benefits program, including medical, dental, vision & more

Paid holidays and time off

Performance-based Spot Bonus

401K & Flexible Spending Accounts

Cepton Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender, veteran status, or on the basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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CEPTON is seeking a Senior System Design Engineer to design and validate high performance 3D LiDAR product, and also support new product introduction to volume manufacturing process in order to support automotive and non-automotive customers.

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Job Responsibilites

Develop LiDAR system and subsystem requirement and specs

Develop system architecture and provide system/subsystem error budget and tradeoff analysis

Highly self-motivated and also capable of leading and driving cross-function team to integrate and characterize system and module-level prototypes, and highly efficient at system issue debug, root cause partition as well as system solution development

In-depth understanding of optical imaging system and good hand-on skillset on the optical system alignment, characterization and validation

Some knowledge about circuitry theory with good hands-on troubleshooting experience on high-speed mixed signal electronics is a big plus

Good team player, collaborative with other functional engineers to complete projects in a fast-paced R&D environment

Work with manufacturing team to help maturity on volume production

Support LiDAR use case understanding and escalation, and work w/ key customers

Reliable and independent work style, highly accountable and responsible for the outputs and working well under pressure.

Qualifications

Bachelor degree or equivalent in the fields of electrical engineering, physics, material, and optics plus 5+ years of working experience in the field, or Master and Ph.D. plus 2+ years of working experience in the fields. The talented, recent graduate is also considered

Should be familiar with scientific analysis and generic SW tools such as Matlab, Python, etc.

Good record and career history as the system engineer capable of solving complex technical problems in the fields of sophisticated equipment, sensors, optical systems, electronics systems

Should be able to define objectives clearly, conduct system design analysis, experiment and data analysis methodically

Package

Competitive compensation package, including stock options

Comprehensive employee benefits program, including medical, dental, vision & more

Paid holidays and time off

Performance-based Spot Bonus

401K & Flexible Spending Accounts

Cepton Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender, veteran status, or on the basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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