Senior Software Applications Lead

Company Description
Lumotive is a leader in all-semiconductor lidar systems, developing high-performance solutions for consumer electronics, industrial automation, robotics and automotive applications. The company’s Meta-Lidar™ Reference Platform utilizes revolutionary beam-steering technology based on patented Light Control Metasurfaces™ and implemented in standard semiconductor manufacturing processes to deliver an unprecedented combination of best-in-class performance, cost, reliability and size. Lumotive’s LCMs enable the industry’s first software-defined lidar with advanced perception capabilities. The company has received measurable industry acclaim with inclusion in the following rankings: Sensors Converge/Fierce Electronics 2021 Startup of the Year, Built In Seattle’s Best Small Companies to Work For, JMP Securities Efficient Fifty list of the most interesting private companies in industrial and energy technology, and EE Times’ Silicon 100: Emerging Startups to Watch. Lumotive’s Meta-Lidar™ Platform was recently recognized with two CES 2022 Innovation awards, a 2022 SPIE Prism Award, a Business Intelligence Group Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award, and a prestigious Edison Award. Investors include Bill Gates, Quan Funds and MetaVC Partners. For more information, find us on the web at www.lumotive.com or on Twitter at @LumotiveLidar.

Lumotive is seeking a talented, energetic Software Applications Lead to be the next addition to our elite team. Software engineering at Lumotive plays a critical role in our product development organization, both providing critical input to our system architecture definitions as well as delivering the control and processing solutions that translate raw data into accurate results which ultimately determine the performance capabilities of the final application.
This role is part of our foundational engineering team and will have a direct impact on customer adoption of our reference designs. You should have a passion for creating software solutions to challenging new problems while working within the constraints of edge and embedded compute platforms. Your knowledge and skills will be an asset to our company by both expanding the capabilities of our software engineering team and partnering with other functional leads to deliver efficient system-level results.
Lumotive is entering the next growth phase of our business, preparing to change the future of free-space optical sensing. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to be part of the next technological revolution!
Responsibilities

• Contribute to implementation of ISP/DSP algorithms on embedded processors
• Assist with HW bring-up by providing tools and/or debugging hands-on
• Collaborate with team leads and managers to define SW system architecture
• Acquire detailed understanding of customer’s application requirements and lead delivery of a software solution using Lumotive’s core designs
• Lead development and support for Lumotive’s Lidar 2.0 SDK
• Represent SW team as a subject expert to customer teams
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment as part of a highly talented and growing team
• Independently develop product features on-time and on-target
• Mentor junior individual contributors and non-SW engineers with best practices
• Lead standardization of our API to ensure mass market adoption and forward compatibility
• Write drivers and libraries to support our HW products and peripherals
• Support porting and optimization of SW on customer specific processor requirements

Qualifications
Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software development
• Experience programming complex SoCs with accelerators, I/O peripherals, etc.
• Expert in C and modern C++ for edge/embedded systems
• MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field
• Proficient in Python for workflow automation and data analysis

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with RTOS configuration and development
• Experience with implementing algorithms optimized for performance or power
• Experience or exposure to lidar perception stack and sensor fusion
• Experience with embedded Linux development and distributions (i.e. Yocto)
• Experience with Windows toolchains and installers
• Experience with OpenCL, preferably targeted to embedded GPUs
• Experience interfacing with FPGAs and other custom logic devices (i.e. ASICs)

Additional Information
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