Senior Logistics Engineer - AV Labs

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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.

We are seeking an analytical, execution-focused Sr Logistics Engineer to own the physical movement, distribution, and material readiness of hardware components powering both our 500+ vehicle build and our ongoing real-world production fleet operations.

In this role, you are the technical and operational lead for our central warehouse and downstream spares distribution pipeline. Your ultimate mandate is delivery execution: ensuring parts move from point A to point B safely, efficiently, and on time, whether delivering to the assembly floor or sustaining active vehicles running data collection operations in the field.

Hardware deployment at scale is naturally dynamic, requiring a balance of hands-on, real-time problem-solving and a strategic vision for scale. You will actively manage daily supply chain complexities and logistics disruptions to protect factory uptime and maximize real-world fleet availability. Concurrently, you will architect the tracking infrastructure, automated data flows, and inventory tools necessary to eliminate manual tracking errors and turn the daily operational grind into a repeatable, world-class distribution network.

Core Responsibilities

Drive Tactical Execution & Real-Time Problem Solving: Act as the core operational escalation point for our logistics pipeline. Personally lead the resolution of day-to-day transit delays, supply chain disruptions, and warehouse bottlenecks to guarantee the vehicle build line never goes down.
Architect Scale Infrastructure & Automated Tracking Systems: Design, build, and implement the automated inventory tracking systems and data architecture needed to transition our logistics out of manual spreadsheets and into scalable enterprise workflows. Establish real-time visibility of parts from warehouse receiving, to the factory floor, and out to active field garages.
Own Central Warehouse Logistics & Spares Distribution: Assume ultimate accountability for the physical movement of all hardware materials. Manage the initial high-volume pipeline from our central warehouse to the vehicle manufacturing factory, and coordinate the downstream distribution network to ship critical spare parts to active data collection cities as operations scale.
Secure On-Time, Damage-Free Delivery: Take direct ownership of ensuring all components arrive at the factory line and field garages on time and completely undamaged. Establish strict packaging, shipping, and handling protocols to eliminate transit-related defects for custom sensors and compute blocks.
Drive Factory Material Readiness & Contractor Governance: Align central warehouse inventory directly with the factory’s production schedule and track configuration changes against the production BOM to catch component shortages early. Direct on-the-ground warehouse contractors, formulating their physical SOPs and digital verification gates to ensure 100% data integrity.
Synchronize Supplier & Build Vendor Delivery Pipelines: Maintain active communication with hardware parts suppliers and external build vendors to orchestrate diverse inbound shipping routes. Partner with internal sourcing and logistics teams to track part-level ETAs and guarantee immediate component availability on the assembly floor.

Qualifications

7+ Years of Scale Logistics & Operations Track Record: Proven experience managing physical inventory, shipping/receiving, or spare-parts distribution networks within high-complexity hardware industries (e.g., autonomous vehicles, robotics, aerospace, automotive manufacturing, or high-density hardware deployment).
Logistics Automation & Infrastructure Fluency: Demonstrated success migrating physical hardware tracking and warehouse dependencies out of ad-hoc tools (like manual spreadsheets) and into automated enterprise architectures, inventory management systems (IMS), or relational data workflows.
BOM & Configuration Literacy: Strong competency parsing complex, multi-variant hardware Bills of Materials (EBOM/MBOM) and Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) specifically to forecast central warehouse staging and maintain a 100% clear-to-build status.
Operational Team Direction: Experience designing daily workflows, establishing standard operating procedures (SOPs), and auditing the output data integrity of on-the-ground warehouse contractors (EXTs), technicians, or third-party logistics vendors.
Analytical Precision & Audit Metrics: Ability to engineer operational rigor, establish strict inventory audit cadences, and define precision metrics (e.g., inventory accuracy, on-time delivery, damage-free arrival rates) within a rapid, scaling deployment environment.
Cross-Functional Communication & Visibility: Exceptional ability to synthesize fragmented inventory timelines and supply disruptions into clear, actionable data and material-readiness frameworks for hardware engineering and operations leadership.
Supplier & External Vendor Coordination: Proven experience managing communication loops between hardware parts suppliers and external manufacturing partners to track multi-destination inbound flows, verify component ETAs, and collaborate with internal logistics teams.

Responsibilities

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $180,000 per year - USD $200,000 per year.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits.

Ready to Ride?

This isn't the kind of place where you follow a playbook — it's where you help write one. If you're driven by impact, energized by challenge, and ready to shape how the world moves — we'd love to hear from you.

You may be eligible for bonuses, equity, and other compensation, as well as a range of benefits. Explore our benefits.

Offices remain key to collaboration and Uber's culture. Unless approved for full remote work, employees must spend at least 50% of their time in-office. Some roles, like those at greenlight hubs, require full-time in-office presence. Ask your Recruiter for details about this role's requirements.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.