Data Infrastructure Engineer for Autonomous Vehicles

Lucid Motors; Southfield (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Lucid Motors, based in Michigan, seeks a software engineer to design, develop, and operate high-scale data pipelines and backend services that process sensor data from autonomous driving datasets.

You will work across the full lifecycle, implementing reliable distributed systems, collaborating with internal customers, and delivering scalable, cost-efficient data infrastructure in a production environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of professional software engineering.
• 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.

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

AWS

Kubernetes

Airflow

Data pipelines

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Docker

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Lucid Motors, based in Michigan, seeks a software engineer to design, develop, and operate high-scale data pipelines and backend services that process sensor data from autonomous driving datasets.

You will work across the full lifecycle, implementing reliable distributed systems, collaborating with internal customers, and delivering scalable, cost-efficient data infrastructure in a production environment.