Senior Staff Embedded Engineer, Advanced Development

Team Overview

The Senior Staff Embedded Engineer is a member of the Advanced Development Organization, responsible for embedded system solutions for the next generation lidar sensor. The candidate will be on-site and responsible for designing state-of-the-art circuits, testing, and system integration. In this role, you will be responsible for electrical systems ideation, design, implementation, modeling, and support volume ramp-up.  

Responsibilities

• Deliver next-generation, best-in-class embedded systems concepts and solutions for Luminar’s LiDAR products.
• Lead, mentor and collaborate with a world-class, highly skilled and capable embedded systems engineering team. Provide opportunities for team members’ professional growth and development.  
• Drive solutions and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable next-generation best-in-class LiDAR products. 
• Facilitate and participate in the invention process both for embedded systems as well as algorithm solutions which enable next-generation best-in-class LiDAR products. 
• Manage project priorities and scope to meet schedule. Collaborate with other highly skilled embedded and algorithm teams within the company to deliver solutions. 

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, physics, mechanical engineering or related degree
• 10+ years of working experience on embedded systems development  
• 5+ years of working experience with FPGA/SoC development  
• Working experience with task management and common project management tools 
• Working experience with SoC devices including but not limited to Xilinx SoC  
• Working experience with digital signal processing algorithms and their deployment in Embedded Systems/FPGA 
• Familiar with several programming languages (C/C++, Python, Matlab) 
• Working knowledge of servo control theory and algorithms 

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's or PhD Degree in related engineering field 
• Experience with LiDAR or otherwise Optomechanical Systems / APD’s / Lasers / TEC’s 
• Responsible for architecting and developing (hdl/c) for SoC-based embedded systems using Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ SoCs  
• Experience with Xilinx RFSoC Devices 
• Familiar with Verilog and VHDL 
• Experience with developing and deploying Digital Signal Processing Algorithms in embedded systems 
• Experience with developing and delivering servo-mechanical control systems via embedded systems 
• Experience collaborating in ASIC development and/or developing RTL for ASIC 
• Experience with common dev-ops and developer tools (Git/Jira/Docker/Static Analysis/Linting)