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ZooxZooxFoster City, CA

Senior / Staff Lidar Engineer

Validates and supports lidar hardware for autonomous vehicle systems through technology evaluation, requirements development, testing, data analysis, and fleet issue resolution. Requires a degree in Physics, Electrical Engineering, or Optics and at least 7 years of lidar experience.

217k – 300k/yr
Hybrid7+ YOEHardware Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate and compare lidar technologies to drive down-selection decisions with customer teams.
  • Develop test plans, perform testing, and report results for lidar systems, including procedures traceable to corresponding system requirements.
  • Generate, analyze, and interpret large LiDAR datasets for KPIs and metrics across a variety of scenarios and conditions.
  • Lead root-cause analysis, corrective action, and validation for fleet issues with internal and external entities.
  • Support and maintain lidar at scale in an autonomous vehicle fleet.
  • Deliver traceable, testable lidar requirements and enforce compliance during the design phase with internal and external stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's, master's, or PhD in Physics, Electrical Engineering, or Optics.
  • Minimum 7+ years of experience working with lidar systems.
  • Strong understanding of lidar physics and experience with common architectures and technologies in automotive lidar.
  • Ability to write high-quality, traceable performance requirements for lidar components.
  • Experience with functional testing, reliability testing, and qualification of opto-mechanical or opto-electrical systems.
  • Experience with optical systems, including laser, detector, and imaging technologies.
  • Strong technical documentation and communication skills.
  • Quantitative, data-driven mindset.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Integration of sensors with vehicle platforms.
  • Unix/Linux, C++, Python, Git/GitHub, and MATLAB.

Skills

lidarlidar physicsautomotive lidaroptical systemslaser technologydetector technologyimaging technologyfunctional testingreliability testingqualification testingC++PythonLinuxGitMATLAB
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