Senior Staff Hardware Engineer, Sensor Architecture

About Wing:

Wing offers drone delivery as a safe fast and sustainable solution for last mile logistics. Consumer appetites for on-demand services are increasing but current delivery methods are inefficient costly and contribute to road accidents and air pollution. Wings fleet of highly automated delivery drones can transport small packages directly from businesses to homes on-demand in minutes. We design build and operate our aircraft and offer drone delivery services on two continents. Our technology is designed to be easy to integrate into existing delivery and logistics networks offering a scalable drone delivery solution for a broad range of businesses. Wing is a part of Googles parent company Alphabet and our mission is to create the preferred means of delivery for the planet. If youre ready to do the greatest work of your life come join us.

About the Role:
Wing is looking for a Senior Staff Sensor Architect to join our Hardware Engineering Team. This role is Hybrid based in Palo Alto CA.

As a Senior Staff Sensor Architect you will be a pivotal technical leader within our Hardware Engineering organization. This is a highly critical role partnering with the overall hardware team and perception team on the development and design of our future-generation delivery aircraft. Because sensors are the eyes and ears of our autonomous fleet the decisions you make will define the efficiency quality performance and scalability of Wings future systems.

You will act as the central authority leading our sensors roadmap sensor architecture driving the vision from early concept through mass production. Candidates should have a breadth of experience across sensors from visual radar acoustic optical and other sensors to make a high impact on our future aircraft designs.

What Youll Do:

• Lead the end-to-end architectural definition and technical roadmap for Wings sensor systems across both aircraft and ground operations.
• Lead cross-functional trade studies across hardware software and manufacturing teams translating ambiguous product goals into rigorous system-level requirements.
• Evaluate select and integrate sensor components by navigating extreme SWaP-C (Size Weight Power and Cost) constraints.
• Develop comprehensive mathematical performance models error budgets and link budgets to guide hardware board design and software algorithm development.
• Architect characterization calibration and validation protocols to guarantee robust sensor performance across highly diverse and punishing environmental conditions.
• Collaborate intimately with manufacturing and contract partners to design scalable automated calibration and high-volume QA test systems.
• Identify prototype and champion emerging sensor technologies to keep Wing at the bleeding edge of autonomous flight.
• Manage deep technical relationships and drive customized component designs with external sensor partners Tier 1 suppliers and foundries.

What Youll Need:

• 15 years of deeply technical experience in sensor architecture hardware systems engineering or complex sensor integration.
• A track record of taking complex hardware or sensor subsystems from early R&D through high-volume commercial manufacturing.
• Experience in RF technologies such as UWB LTE wifi ads-b.
• Mastery in at least two sensor modalities critical to autonomous navigation (e.g. vision/cameras LiDAR radar IMUs GNSS/GPS or barometers).
• Proven ability to build mathematical performance models and define error budgets for complex sensor data pipelines.
• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Physics Mechatronics or a directly related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Wing is an equal opportunity employer and it is Wings policy to comply with all applicable national state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity. Employment at Wing is based solely on a persons merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. Wing does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race creed color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity/expression national origin disability age genetic information veteran status marital status pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis protected by law.

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