Software Engineer II - Offboard Python Application
About The Position
Latitude AI is developing a fully in-house hands-free ADAS platform as part of Ford’s autonomy roadmap. The Virtual Test Ecosystem (VTE) team builds and operates simulation and resimulation workflows, enabling large-scale safety and performance testing before in-vehicle testing. Its cloud-agnostic processing framework uses open-source software and cloud-provider services and can also run on-premises. The Software Engineer II will improve the simulation and resimulation framework and its applications, primarily using Python and AWS and/or GCP services. The role includes finding and resolving scalability and performance bottlenecks, building benchmarks and dashboards, and making the framework intuitive, well-documented, and self-service for teams across autonomy, systems, and testing. The engineer will also contribute to efficient storage and search of vehicle logs, automated indexing of relevant actors and interactions, dataset coverage analysis, and tools that make it easier for developers to implement performance metrics.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related field and 4+ years of relevant experience; alternatively, a Master's degree and 2+ years of relevant experience, or a PhD.
- Expertise writing efficient, well-documented, and well-tested Python code.
- At least 2 years of experience writing scalable applications that execute in a cloud or HPC environment.
- At least 2 years of experience writing software that interacts with AWS and/or GCP services.
- Familiarity with NumPy and scientific programming.
- Willingness and desire to learn how onboard and offboard components interact and propose solutions that improve how developers and testers work with both systems.
Nice To Haves
- C++ development experience.
- Experience with Kubernetes.
Responsibilities
- Improve the simulation and resimulation cloud framework and the applications that run on it.
- Write Python code and integrate open-source packages and AWS and/or GCP services.
- Identify scalability and performance bottlenecks, develop benchmarks and dashboards, and implement efficiency improvements.
- Work with users across autonomy, systems, testing, and other teams to understand usage patterns and improve the framework.
- Make the framework well-documented and self-service so other teams can extend it, including adding autonomy stack components to resimulation.
- Contribute to efficient vehicle-log storage and search, automated indexing of interesting actors and scene interactions, and dataset coverage analysis.
- Improve the framework to make it easy for developers to add metrics and implement metrics as needs arise.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation packages.
- 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 and adoption/surrogacy support program.
- Paid medical leave.
- Unlimited vacation and 15 paid holidays.
- Daily lunches, snacks, and beverages at office locations.
- Pre-tax healthcare and dependent-care spending accounts.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits.
- Monthly wellness stipend.
- Backup child and elder care program.
- Professional development reimbursement.
- Employee assistance program.
- Discounted programs including legal services, identity theft protection, and pet insurance.
- Employee resource groups, quarterly team activity stipend, and wellness initiatives.
- Annual bonus programs and equity compensation, subject to eligibility requirements.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
