# Senior Hardware Engineer, Lidar at Latitude

- Company: Latitude
- What the company does: Global payments, rebuilt from scratch. Connect modern stablecoin rails to local fiat with the Latitude Settlement Network. Global fiat payouts and international on/off ramps through a single API. Backed by NEA.
- Company website: https://latitude.xyz/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA, Palo Alto, CA, Detroit, MI
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $192K to $288K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/latitude/jobs/8055181
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/latitude-senior-hardware-engineer-lidar/

## About the role

When you join the Latitude team, you’ll work alongside leading experts across machine learning and robotics, cloud platforms, mapping, sensors and compute systems, test operations, systems and safety engineering – all dedicated to redefining the relationship between people and their vehicles for millions of customers.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of experience in automotive sensing, with deep hands-on expertise in either radar or lidar and demonstrated technical leadership on complex hardware programs
- Strong first-principles understanding of the relevant sensing modality:
- Lidar: time-of-flight or FMCW fundamentals, ranging accuracy, reflectivity effects, point cloud quality, contamination, weather impacts, optical alignment, calibration, and environmental robustness
- Strong scripting and analysis capability in python, including hands-on use of NumPy, pandas, Jupyter, and similar tools to parse logs, evaluate sensor performance, trend issues, and build repeatable analysis workflows
- Ability to work directly with sensor data and debug artifacts, including supplier logs, raw captures, decoded outputs, and vehicle test datasets, and determine whether the data is complete, valid, and physically credible
- Experience translating system and perception needs into sensor requirements, validation methods, and supplier deliverables

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