Senior Embedded Firmware Platform Engineer

Luminar is a global automotive technology company ushering in a new era of vehicle safety and autonomy. For the past decade, Luminar has built an advanced hardware and software platform to enable its more than 50 industry partners, including the majority of global automotive OEMs. From Volvo Cars and Mercedes-Benz for consumer vehicles and Daimler Trucks for commercial trucks, to tech partners NVIDIA and Intel’s Mobileye, Luminar is poised to be the first automotive technology company to enable next-generation safety and autonomous capabilities for production vehicles. 

For more information, please visit www.luminartech.com.

Team Overview

Luminar is an autonomous vehicle sensor and software company with the vision to make autonomy safe and ubiquitous. We built a new type of lidar from the chip-level up with breakthroughs across all core components. As a result, we have created the only lidar sensor that meets the stringent performance, safety and cost requirements for Level 3–Level 5 autonomous vehicles. Integrating this advanced hardware with Luminar’s custom developed software stack enables a turn-key autonomous solution. We have rapidly gained 50 industry partners, including 7 of the top 10 global automotive OEMs. Founded in 2012, Luminar is a 350+ person team with offices in Palo Alto, Orlando, Colorado Springs, Detroit, and Munich.

We are a diverse team of passionate and driven individuals, making us a powerhouse of innovation, design, engineering, and manufacturing. We are hiring the best and the brightest to accelerate the industry, and bring forward the next transportation revolution.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop Lidar platform software components
• Develop and maintain ownership of assigned software components / Lidar subsystem
• Software component design based on requirements, and architecture
• Software unit testing per design
• Traceability across requirements / architecture / design / code
• Debugging and integration of software on the hardware platform
• Support FW test team during integration and qualification testing
• Porting software implementations to new target platforms
• Take part in peer reviews on requirements, architecture, design, code
• Full software development life cycle (SDLC) participation adhering to ASPICE process compliance

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
• 3+ years of experience constructing C or C++ embedded software on projects requiring coding, verification, unit testing, integration testing and debugging
• Hands-on experience with intersystem communication protocols including I2C, UART, and SPI
• Strong working knowledge of one or more computing architecture platforms and their associated hardware platform including FPGAs, DSPs, GPUs, MCUs or SoCs
• Solid foundational knowledge and hands-on experience using one or more microcontroller peripherals including ADCs, DACs, Flash, EEPROM, timers and watchdogs
• Working knowledge of digital and analog electronics

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep technical knowledge of the internet protocol (IP) suite, layered architecture, and the associated protocols
• Extensive project experience working on embedded networking applications and associated network infrastructure
• Proficient in networking setup and diagnosis on either a Linux or Windows platform
• Technical knowledge of laser fundamentals and their applications
• Extensive project experience working on embedded laser applications including Lidar
• Safety-critical industry experience

 

Luminar is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, service in the military, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. We will make a reasonable accommodation for any qualified applicant with a disability, provided that the individual is otherwise qualified to safely perform the essential functions of the job with or without accommodation and that the accommodation would not impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Please let us know if you believe you require reasonable accommodation, or if you would like assistance to complete an application or to participate in an interview at the company.

 

At Luminar, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. This role pays a base between $102,000 and $142,000* per year. Within this range, individual pay is determined by work loc