Senior / Staff Lidar Engineer

About the role

Zoox is looking for a candidate with a background in lidar to support hardware selection and validation for autonomous vehicles.

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 that are traceable to corresponding system requirements.
• Generate, analyze, and interpret large LiDAR datasets for KPIs/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, enforcing compliance in the design phase with internal and external stakeholders.

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

Skills

• Integration of sensors with vehicle platforms (bonus)
• Unix/Linux, C++, Python, Git/GitHub, MATLAB (bonus)

Pay

Base salary range: $217,000 - $300,000 a year. There are three major components to compensation for this position: salary, Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), and Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights. A sign-on bonus may be offered as part of the compensation package. The listed range applies only to the base salary. Compensation will vary based on geographic location and level. Leveling, as well as positioning within a level, is determined by a range of factors, including, but not limited to, a candidate's relevant years of experience, domain knowledge, and interview performance.

Benefits

• Paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement)
• Unpaid time off
• Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
• Amazon RSUs
• Health insurance
• Long-term care insurance
• Long-term and short-term disability insurance
• Life insurance