Senior Hardware Engineer, ISP/Tuning

Latitude AI•Detroit, MI

About The Position

Latitude AI ( lat.ai ) develops automated driving technologies, including L3, for Ford vehicles at scale. We’re driven by the opportunity to reimagine what it’s like to drive and make travel safer, less stressful, and more enjoyable for everyone. When you join the Latitude team, you’ll work alongside leading experts across machine learning and robotics, cloud platforms, mapping, sensors and compute systems, test operations, systems and safety engineering – all dedicated to making a real, positive impact on the driving experience for millions of people. As a Ford Motor Company subsidiary, we operate independently to develop automated driving technology at the speed of a technology startup. Latitude is headquartered in Pittsburgh with engineering centers in Dearborn, Mich., and Palo Alto, Calif. Meet the team: The hardware sensing team is responsible for the benchmarking, characterizing, and nomination and integration of all sensors. We work cross functionally with systems, perceptions, vehicle integration to ensure the sensors meet Latitude’s ODD requirements, perception requirements, and that it is integrable and reliable in Ford’s series vehicles. We are expected to understand sensing from a first principle approach and to ensure those principles are designable and manufacturable. We keep a breadth of all sensing technology, sensing vendors, and integration technologies. Members of the team are expected to be highly multidisciplinary, as successful sensor integration requires expert understanding and comfortability of concepts across many disciplines–from hardware and software.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics or a related field and 4+ years of relevant experience (or Master's degree and 2+ years of relevant experience, or PhD)
Extensive experience with camera ISP, camera design, optical system design
Extensive experience with sensing for robotics systems
Experience with the image quality processing process, automotive environment preferred
Experience with fundamental image signal processing algorithms, –3A, de-noising, tone-mapping, HDR techniques
Experience with ISP implementation in hardware, such as ASICS, FPGAs, 3rd party ISP silicon
Comfortable discussing system requirements and their traceability to sensor requirements
Comfortable with concepts in machine learning, deep learning, general neural networks
Competency in Python/C++/Matlab

Nice To Haves

Adjacent experience in optics, optical simulation, lens design is a plus

Responsibilities

Design state of the art ISP pipeline for L3 and L2 applications
Work with internal team and third party vendors to achieve optimal image quality tuning
Work with other camera engineers to characterize lens, imagers, camera module performance
Work cross-functionally to align on camera pipeline requirements
Work with perception, and machine learning team to tune ISP parameters to ensure accurate and stable data products
Work with the firmware team to ensure image meta data are properly mapped

Benefits

Competitive compensation packages
High-quality individual and family medical, dental, and vision insurance
Health savings account with available employer match
Employer-matched 401(k) retirement plan with immediate vesting
Employer-paid group term life insurance and the option to elect voluntary life insurance
Paid parental leave
Paid medical leave
Unlimited vacation
15 paid holidays
Daily lunches, snacks, and beverages available in all office locations
Pre-tax spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care expenses
Pre-tax commuter benefits
Monthly wellness stipend
Adoption/Surrogacy support program
Backup child and elder care program
Professional development reimbursement
Employee assistance program
Discounted programs that include legal services, identity theft protection, pet insurance, and more
Company and team bonding outlets: employee resource groups, quarterly team activity stipend, and wellness initiatives