LiDAR Characterization & Perception Data Engineer - Mountain View, CA
Aeva, Inc.4 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$155k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Characterize 4D LiDAR performance, including range, velocity, and point cloud quality, in real-world environments.
- Support customer hardware integration and serve as a technical liaison between customers, hardware engineers, and perception teams.
- Develop Python and C++ infrastructure to ingest, verify, organize, and write metadata and sensor data to databases.
- Run camera, LiDAR, and GPS calibration workflows and debug hardware/software integration issues, logging failures, connectivity problems, and network dropouts.
- Build and maintain ETL pipelines for high-volume sensor data and coordinate annotation delivery and label validation.
- Plan, support, and execute data collection runs with operations and customer engineering teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Optics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 3 years of industry experience combining production Python and C++ software development with hardware/systems engineering, or 2 years with a master’s degree.
- Hands-on experience with LiDAR, radar, or camera systems, including troubleshooting, calibration, and point cloud analysis.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including data structures and system design, plus experience designing or operating data pipelines at scale.
- Ability to communicate complex technical issues across customers, hardware engineers, and perception software teams.
- Familiarity with robotics or autonomous-systems data such as ROS, sensor logs, binary formats, or perception datasets is preferred.
- Ability to work independently and cross-functionally in a fast-moving environment with ambiguous requirements.
About Aeva, Inc.
Aeva builds frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) 4D LiDAR sensors and perception software for automotive autonomy, ADAS, robotics, and industrial automation. Its lidar-on-chip modules use silicon photonics and on-sensor processing to measure position and velocity, sold to OEMs and system integrators. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Aeva is a public company listed on the NYSE.