- Robot type
- Autonomous Vehicle
- Location
- Palo AltoCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Software
- Posted
- Aug 11, 2026
- Salary
- $253,120–$379,680 a year
Senior Software Engineering Manager - Multi-Object Tracking & State Estimation
Job description
Latitude AI ( lat.ai ) is building the future of Ford’s autonomy roadmap to make travel safer, less stressful, and more enjoyable for everyone. Bringing this vision to scale, our fully in-house developed hands-free ADAS platform will debut on the all-new Ford Fathom in 2027.
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.
As a Ford Motor Company subsidiary, we operate independently to develop automated driving technology at…
Job responsibilities
- Lead a team of experts to deliver critical functionality for the next generation of autonomy systems at Ford. This functionality includes (but is not limited to) multi-object tracking, estimation of the road properties…
- Stay current with literature, analyze current system performance, and design state of the art solutions with the team for the above goals. Develop ML models in both a modular and E2E framework
- Collaborate with expert roboticists and ML engineers and scientists to integrate and deploy State Estimation solutions into production.
- Participate as a senior leader in next-generation autonomy development towards the Ford Large Driving Model
Job requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics or a related field and 10+ years of relevant experience, Master's degree and 8+ years of relevant experience, or PhD and 5+…
- Experience developing and shipping learned multi-object tracking systems
- Experience with classical state estimation methods, such as Kalman filters (and varieties thereof), particle filters, etc
- Significant experience with Python and/or C++
- Significant experience in computer vision, perception, and machine learning
- Proven track record of shipping machine learning-based solutions to computer vision problems using PyTorch or similar (TensorFlow, JAX, etc)
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