{"id":711960,"url":"https://alion.io/job/humblerobotics-senior-sensor-engineer","title":"Senior Hardware Engineer (Camera, Lidar, Radar)","company":{"id":678574,"name":"Humble Robotics","domain":"humblerobotics.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/humblerobotics","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Lever","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":95,"open_postings":23,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":171,"computed_at":"2026-10-31T05:58:55Z"}},"role":"Hardware","role_family":"Hardware","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":146000,"max_usd":268000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":1517},"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"Inertial Navigation","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-19T21:48:19Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-19","last_verified_at":"2026-10-31T04:54:06Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":72,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":["company_stale"],"days_open":72},"description":"About Humble Robotics\nWorking at Humble Robotics means taking on the biggest change in ground transportation in decades. We’re building an autonomous, zero-emissions hauler that dramatically lowers the cost of freight with groundbreaking vision-based AI, designed for today’s global logistics network.\nWe’re a fast-moving, close-knit team of AV industry veterans and innovative thinkers. We don’t believe culture can be engineered - but when it falls into place, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime adventure.\nProgress has never felt so present.\nPosition Overview\nOwn and support the sensors on our next-generation autonomous trucks, from selection and characterization through placement, commissioning, and on-vehicle validation. You will define what \"good\" means for every camera, lidar, radar, microphone, and INS on the truck, prove it in the lab and in the field, and be the person Perception and Autonomy come to when sensor data does not look right.\nKey Responsibilities\nWrite and own sensor requirements. Make them testable, tie each one to an autonomy or safety need, and defend the rationale in cross-functional reviews.\nRun field of view, coverage, and occlusion studies for a Class 8 tractor-trailer. Quantify blind zones, cross-modality overlap, and trailer articulation effects, and use that analysis to drive sensor placement decisions.\nCharacterize remote-sensing systems, including camera, lidar, radar, microphone, IMU, and GNSS: resolution, SNR, dynamic range, latency and jitter, point density, range and reflectivity, detection and false alarm rates, angular accuracy, bias and drift.\nOwn sensor commissioning and bring-up, including procedures, automation, qualification tests, diagnostics, and drive improvements for repeatability and throughput.\nDesign and build test setups and test benches. Experience with measurement tools, power supplies, t-slot rail, power distribution, and bracket design preferred.\nSupport testing, evaluation, federation, and continued operation of vehicles, sensors, and vehicle platforms.\nSupport data collection, automation, review, and analysis for bench and on-vehicle tests, for characterization, failure analysis, reliability estimation, systems analysis, and performance modeling.\nWork directly with Autonomy and Software to turn perception needs into measurable sensor KPIs, and with Hardware on mounts, enclosures, harnessing, power, thermal, and networking.\nLead root cause analysis on sensor issues from bring-up, DV, and on-vehicle operation, and close the loop into specs and design changes.\nMinimum Qualifications\nBS in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or related, and 3 or more years of hands-on sensor and engineering experience.\nTest automation, scripting, and data analysis experience.\nField of view and coverage analysis experience, including geometric modeling of sensor placement on a vehicle or robot.\nExperience with at least two of camera, lidar, radar, or INS/GNSS.\nStrong grasp of the underlying physics: optics and photometry, lidar range equation and reflectivity, radar RCS and antenna patterns, inertial error models and GNSS/INS fusion behavior.\nProven cross-functional collaboration with autonomy, perception, software, and hardware teams.\nFluent in Python for test automation and data analysis.\nComfortable on a vehicle and in the shop\nExperience writing test reports and procedures someone else can execute.\nPreferred Qualifications\nPrior experience at an AV, robotaxi, autonomous trucking, or ADAS program at an OEM or Tier 1.\nCommissioned sensor suites across multiple vehicle builds or program phases.\nTook a sensor from evaluation through supplier qualification onto a production vehicle.\nHeavy-duty truck or large articulated platform experience.\nWorking knowledge of, GMSL, Automotive Ethernet, CAN/CAN FD, and PTP.\nSensor modeling or simulation for placement trade studies.\nExposure to functional safety and SOTIF as applied to sensor performance and degradation.\nCompensation\nSalary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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