
Senior Software Engineer, Access Controls
Lucid Motors9 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Develop embedded control systems for vehicle access-control features, including locking, authentication, and device localization.
- Develop requirements and test cases modeled in Matlab, Simulink, and Stateflow.
- Improve simulation models and platforms for analyzing, optimizing, and troubleshooting access-control and localization algorithms.
- Integrate features into controller code, test software on vehicles, and assist with feature calibration.
- Support FMEA activities, ISO 26262 compliance, diagnostics, communications, and interfaces across controllers and ECUs.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams on controls problems, vehicle integration, hardware bring-up, supplier management, and production support.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, automotive systems, or a related technical field.
- At least 4 years of experience with automotive control systems and advanced controls algorithms.
- Expert knowledge of model-based design using Matlab, Simulink, and Stateflow.
- Expert understanding of automatic control systems, including compensator design, Kalman filtering, and PID tuning.
- Proficiency in C and C++ and integration into embedded ECUs.
- Experience with JAMA, JIRA, Git, and Confluence.
- Preferred experience with vehicle access or ingress/egress controls and RF, BLE, or UWB technologies.
- Preferred experience with Kalman filters, machine learning, clustering techniques, ISO 26262, Autosar, electric-vehicle controller design, CANalyzer, CANape, and Embedded Coder.
- A master’s degree or higher in a relevant technical field is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance; life and disability coverage; paid time off; paid holidays; paid sick leave; and a 401(k) retirement plan.
- Eligible employees may participate in Lucid’s equity program and/or discretionary annual cash incentive program.
- The role is fully onsite at Lucid’s Phoenix Hub.
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.