Senior Software Engineer - Vehicle Communication (C++)

<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.&nbsp;</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 Manage Vehicle Interfaces team focuses on vehicle communication by building and maintaining the in-vehicle interface layer for our zonal architecture. We define and evolve message schemas (IDL), generate and integrate serialization/decoding code, and implement the C/C++ runtime components that transmit/receive vehicle messages, enforce safety/security checks, and publish faults/telemetry. We also support the supporting ecosystem—bench simulation, logging/converters, and CI—so interface changes can ship reliably.</p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>What you’ll do:&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>End-to-end integration of vehicle interface definitions through schema/code generation into our onboard C++ publishers/subscribers</li> <li>Produce high-quality, maintainable code for plumbing messages: encode/decode mappings, message validation (length, IDs), rate enforcement, and robust error handling/telemetry</li> <li>Debug cross-boundary issues efficiently (network capture → deserialization → internal channels → consumers), and reduce integration friction by improving tooling, documentation, and developer workflows around interface changes</li> <li>Contribute to verificat