Sr. Principal Software Engineer, AI / Machine Learning

Leading the future in luxury electric and mobilityAt Lucid, we set out to introduce the most captivating, luxury electric vehicles that elevate the human experience and transcend the perceived limitations of space, performance, and intelligence. Vehicles that are intuitive, liberating, and designed for the future of mobility. We plan to lead in this new era of luxury electric by returning to the fundamentals of great design – where every decision we make is in service of the individual and environment. Because when you are no longer bound by convention, you are free to define your own experience. Come work alongside some of the most accomplished minds in the industry. Beyond providing competitive salaries, we’re providing a community for innovators who want to make an immediate and significant impact. If you are driven to create a better, more sustainable future, then this is the right place for you.
The Data Science and Machine Learning team at Lucid is on the mission to design, develop, and deploy AI solutions to help make safe and sustainable products and services on par with Lucid’s Luxury brand. This opportunity involves creating end-to-end AI solutions from design and development to delivery of data-driven services and products utilizing AI, machine learning and big data on the cloud and edge. You are a motivated person who is passionate about implementing high-tech AI solution in Automotive and EV industry. You have strong technical skills and know-how and willing to learn and grow on how to build one of the most advanced AI and ML software teams in the EV industry.

The Role:

• Work on state-of-the-art software and machine learning projects and products.
• Work alongside with data scientists and machine learning domain experts to design advanced high-quality, high-throughput software.
• Provide architecture and technical direction for frontend and backend systems.
• Design and develop software tools for data analytics and machine learning.
• Work closely with Data Scientists and ML Engineers to implement production ready systems.
• Own the development and maintenance of critical core software stacks.
• Help design internal code standards, and review code to produce clean, efficient, reusable code that is unit tested, and adheres to internal code standard.
• Responsible for integrating, deploying, testing, and verifying various algorithms and models in the cloud and in the computing system on vehicles.

Qualifications:

• Advanced degree (Masters/PhD) in Computer Science, Mechanical engineering, Statistics, or related STEM field or bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of experience.
• Strong programming in Python, Java, Scala or C/C++.
• Foundation in Object-Oriented design and implementation principles
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and systems design skills
• 5+ years of software development experience, backend system and API design
• Knowledge of database technology, schema design, and query optimization techniques
• Fundamentals of machine learning algorithms

Preferred Skills:

• Relevant experience in EV or Automotive, Transportation and autonomous driving
• Experience with telematics data, signal processing and decision modeling is a plus
• Experience with big data platforms such as Spark, Presto, and Hive
• Hands-on experience with cloud computing and HPC or other cloud and distributed platforms e.g. Airflow, Kubernetes, Kubeflow, MLFlow, etc. is a huge plus.
• Embedded software design experience

Education:

• Advanced degree (Masters/PhD) in Computer Science, Mechanical engineering, Statistics, or related STEM field or bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of experience.

At Lucid, we don’t just welcome diversity - we celebrate it! Lucid Motors is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and expression, marital status, and any other characteristic protected under applicable State or Federal laws and regulations.
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