At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.

We care deeply about delivering the best transportation experience; this means the best experience for the passenger and the best experience for the driver. We believe this quality of service can only be achieved with a deep understanding of our world, our cities, our streets… how they evolve, how they breathe. We embrace the powerful positive impact autonomous transportation will bring to our everyday lives and with our ambition, we will become a leader in the development and operation of such vehicles. Thanks to our network, with hundreds of millions of rides every year, we have the means to make autonomy a safe reality. As a member of Level5, you will have the opportunity to develop and deploy tomorrow’s hardware & software solutions and thereby revolutionize transportation.

As a Power Electronics Engineer at Lyft Level 5, you will work on various PCBA designs for power, compute, and controls. You will work cross-functionally to gather requirements, come up with architectural design and get buy-in from core technical team members. You will translate design architecture into implementation through component selection, schematic capture, layout, functional review, fab, bringup, test, all the way to mid-volume production. 

Responsibilities:

• Lead the developments of power electronics control units, HV/LV DC/DC, or LV power distribution boards
• Propose creative and reliable power electronic solutions that will help the L5 Power team to meet internal technical requirements
• Be on top of the latest implementation method in LV power redundancy
• Lead the integration effort of power ECU integration with the base vehicle prototype
• Working cross-functionally to manage technical challenges including thermal, FW, and mechanical

Experience:

• Over 5-10 years of hands on experience required in the design and development of power electronics including automotive ECU, DC/DC, and other power solutions for automotive applications
• Deep understanding in tradeoffs in component and design parameter selections for switch-mode power converter design
• Solid fundamentals in board-level and system-level grounding schemes
• Application experience with power switches including, MOSFET, GaN etc
• Embedded control hardware application (uP or DSP), including power supply, interfacing and protection circuits
• Demonstrable experience with typical power electronics simulation and analysis approaches and software packages
• PCB design experience, preferably with NEXUS Altium, including good knowledge of noise reduction approaches
• Understanding of power electronics hardware integration in to vehicles and the challenges that brings
• Ability to interface with test, mechanical, software, systems, and functional safety teams during product design cycle
• Understanding of requirements traceability, configuration management, design for CISPR EMC compliance
• Design bring-up and test procedures for electronic systems. Troubleshoot, root cause, and drive issue to closure
• Work cross functionally to define board/system level architecture
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, good communication and collaboration skills
• Experience with process development
• Produce specifications and other relevant design documentation
• Familiarity with circuit and wiring harness schematic capture tools

Benefits:

• Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
• In addition to 11 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
• 401(k) plan to help save for your future
• 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
• Monthly commuter subsidy to cover your transit to work
• 20% off all Lyft rides

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