Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
Lucid Motors6 hours ago
Southfield, MI, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services and data pipelines for ingesting, processing, storing, and serving sensor datasets.
- Develop scalable systems using Python and AWS cloud services.
- Build APIs, data services, and tooling for efficient access to autonomous vehicle data.
- Improve platform reliability, observability, performance, and operational efficiency.
- Own production services and participate in troubleshooting, incident response, and root cause analysis.
- Collaborate with internal and external teams to understand requirements and deliver scalable solutions.
- Optimize storage, compute, and data movement costs while maintaining performance and availability.
- Contribute to architecture discussions, code reviews, and engineering best practices.
- Support infrastructure automation and operational excellence across the platform.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong software development experience in Python.
- Experience building and operating backend services, distributed systems, or large-scale data platforms.
- Professional experience with AWS and deploying applications to Kubernetes clusters.
- Experience with Airflow or other workflow orchestrators.
- Experience designing data pipelines, ETL systems, or data processing frameworks.
- Experience developing containerized applications, backend microservices, and event-driven systems or data pipelines.
- Past experience in the autonomous driving or automotive industry, specifically backend and cloud development.
- Preferred: strong ownership and project delivery experience from design through production operations.
- Preferred: experience building distributed systems or cloud data platforms processing large-scale datasets.
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.
- Lucid is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.