# Senior / Staff Lidar Engineer

**Company:** [Zoox](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/zoox)
**Location:** Foster City, CA
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Salary:** $217k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** lidar, lidar physics, automotive lidar, optical systems, laser technology, detector technology, imaging technology, functional testing, reliability testing, qualification testing, C++, Python, Linux, Git, MATLAB
**Posted:** 2026-08-04

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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