Autonomous Vehicle Data Platform Engineer — Equity Eligible

Lucidmotors; Southfield (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity program

Job summary

Lucid Motors is seeking a software engineer to help build the data platform that supports autonomous vehicle development. You will design, develop, and operate high-scale data pipelines and backend services responsible for processing and managing large-scale sensor datasets, including camera, LiDAR, and vehicle telemetry data.

This role suits engineers who enjoy solving distributed systems and data infrastructure problems, working across the full lifecycle from service development to production

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong Python development experience.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and data pipelines for ingesting, processing, storing, and serving sensor datasets.
• Develop reliable and scalable systems using Python and AWS cloud services.
• Build APIs, data services, and tooling that enable 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 cross-functionally with internal and external teams to understand requirements and deliver scalable solutions.
• Optimize storage, compute, and data movement costs while maintaining high performance and availability.
• Contribute to architecture discussions, code reviews, and engineering best practices.
• Support CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and operational excellence across the platform.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

Backend services

Event-driven systems

Autonomous vehicle data

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Airflow

Job description

Lucid Motors is seeking a software engineer to help build the data platform that supports autonomous vehicle development. You will design, develop, and operate high-scale data pipelines and backend services responsible for processing and managing large-scale sensor datasets, including camera, LiDAR, and vehicle telemetry data.

This role suits engineers who enjoy solving distributed systems and data infrastructure problems, working across the full lifecycle from service development to production