ADAS/AD Simulation Engineer - Tools
Lucid Motors2 days ago
Southfield, MI, USAEntry Level / Mid Level
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable automation frameworks and tooling for ADAS/AD SIL and HIL simulations.
- Build tooling for large-scale regression execution, scheduling, failure triage, log management, metrics extraction, and reporting.
- Enable scenario configuration, parameterization, execution, and result evaluation for scenario-based validation.
- Create data visualization tools using custom solutions or open-source tools such as Foxglove.
- Maintain automation tools based on feedback from HIL and SIL system users.
- Develop and scale CI/CD pipelines for ADAS simulation workflows, including smoke tests, nightly regressions, version-control integration, build systems, and simulation farms.
- Monitor pipeline health, reduce execution time, and improve simulation reliability and debuggability.
- Support HIL and SIL development and collaborate with suppliers on ADAS systems validation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree minimum in Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a similar field plus 3+ years of automotive engineering experience, or a master’s degree minimum plus 1+ years of automotive engineering experience.
- Very good understanding of software development for automation tools, post-processing, and application development.
- Highly proficient in Python and working knowledge of MATLAB for analysis, modeling, and automation.
- Experience with object-oriented software design, API development, heterogeneous data formats, Linux development environments, shell scripting, automation, and containerization such as Docker.
- Basic understanding of ADAS/AD features or other physical systems.
- Preferred experience with HIL/SIL ADAS validation at an OEM or Tier 1, large-scale simulation data and log management, C++, OpenSCENARIO, OpenDRIVE, ROS2, SOTIF, ISO 26262, NCAP, and automotive system interactions.
- Preferred familiarity with Jira, Jama, and agile development tools and environments.
- Strong communication, project ownership, creativity, and ability to work in constrained startup environments.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Life and disability coverage.
- Paid time off, paid holidays, and paid sick leave.
- 401(k) retirement plan.
- Eligible employees may participate in Lucid’s equity program and/or discretionary annual cash incentive program.
- The posting states that hourly/non-exempt employees accrue up to 120 hours of paid time off and salaried/exempt employees accrue up to 160 hours.
About Lucid Motors
Lucid Motors designs, manufactures, and sells premium electric vehicles, including the Lucid Air sedan and Gravity SUV, built on its in-house EV platform. The public company, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Newark, California, sells directly through its website and showrooms and operates manufacturing in Arizona. It also supplies powertrain technology to other automakers and develops software and driver-assistance features for its vehicles.