Senior / Staff Lidar Engineer
On-siteFoster City, California, United States
Job Summary
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/metrics across various 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 while delivering traceable, testable requirements and enforcing compliance in the design phase. This role supports Zoox's development of the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and its supporting ecosystem for mobility-as-a-service in urban environments.
Required Qualifications
- B.S., M.S., PhD in Physics, EE, or Optics
- Minimum 7+ years of experience working with lidar systems
- Strong understanding of lidar physics, as well as experience with common architectures and technologies in automotive lidar
- Demonstrated 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, such as laser technology, detector technology, and imaging technology
- Strong technical documentation and communication skills
- Quantitative, data-driven mindset
Desired Qualifications
- Integration of sensors with vehicle platforms
- Unix/Linux, C++, Python, Git/GitHub, MATLAB
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