# Staff Mechanical Design Engineer - Sensor Cleaning

About the Role Uber is launching AV Labs to accelerate the autonomous technology ecosystem. We're building out a high-velocity team of multi-disciplinary experts to turn real-world operations into high-quality data for our autonomous partners. This team is focused on the hardest problem in AV today: unlocking real-world, long-tail driving data. Autonomy is now a data race-and Uber has an edge: We collect rare, real-world driving data at a scale and capital efficiency no one else can match. As a Staff Mechanical Design Engineer at Uber AV Labs, you will lead the development of sensor cleaning systems for data collection vehicles. You will own mechanical solutions that keep cameras, LiDAR, radar, and other perception sensors operational across rain, snow, ice, dust, mud, insects, and road spray.In this role, you will apply situational program management to seamlessly organize, align, and orchestrate high-impact R&D roadmaps from raw concepts all the way through architectural validation and physical prototype integration. CoreResponsibilities Own sensor cleaning system architecture from concept through production. Design cleaning solutions using air, fluid spray, heating, wipers, coat

- **Id**: 1307514
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/uber-staff-mechanical-design-engineer-sensor-cleaning>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sunnyvale, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-26T12:06:26Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-26
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T03:04:32Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 50
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3284
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Transportation & Logistics, Ride Hailing

## Company

- **Id**: 230
- **Name**: Uber
- **Domain**: uber.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/uber>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 173
- **Ghost share**: 0.029
- **Stale share**: 0.549
- **Repost share**: 0.081
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 13
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 211000
- **Max**: 234000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 234000

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 50

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-26T14:25:55Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 837 · green card filings: 258; Filings 12m: 837

## Liveness

- **Score**: 11
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.395
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 49
- **Expected fill days**: 13
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 234000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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