Senior Hardware Engineer, Lidar

<p><span style="font-weight: 300; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Latitude AI (</span><a href="https://lat.ai/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">lat.ai</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) develops automated driving technologies, including L3, for Ford vehicles at scale. We’re driven by the opportunity to reimagine what it’s like to drive and make travel safer, less stressful, and more enjoyable for everyone.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 300;">When you join the Latitude team, you’ll work alongside leading experts across machine learning and robotics, cloud platforms, mapping, sensors and compute systems, test operations, systems and safety engineering – </span><strong><em>all dedicated to making a real, positive impact on the driving experience for millions of people. </em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 300; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As a Ford Motor Company subsidiary, we operate independently to develop automated driving technology at the speed of a technology startup. Latitude is headquartered in Pittsburgh with engineering centers in Dearborn, Mich., and Palo Alto, Calif.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Meet the team:</strong></span></p> <p>The hardware sensing team is responsible for the benchmarking, characterizing, and nomination and integration of all sensors. We work cross functionally with systems, perceptions, vehicle integration to ensure the sensors meet Latitude’s ODD requirements, perception requirements, and that it is integrable and reliable in Ford’s series vehicles. We are expected to understand sensing from a first principle approach and to ensure those principles are designable and manufacturable.  We keep a breadth of all sensing technology, sensing vendors, and integration technologies. Members of the team are expected to be highly multidisciplinary, as successful sensor integration requires expert understanding and comfortability of concepts across many disciplines–from hardware and software.</p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>What you’ll do: </strong></span></p> <ul> <li>Lead technical development of radar or lidar sensing systems from early concept, benchmarking, and sourcing through production launch</li> <li>Define sensor performance targets, requirements, evaluation criteria, and validation plans based on vehicle, perception, and ODD needs</li> <li>Drive sensor benchmarking and tech