- Robot type
- Sensors and Components
- Location
- PleasantonCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Jul 6, 2026
- Salary
- $140,000–$180,000 a year
Full-time
Senior Systems Engineer
Job description
We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join our systems engineering team and collaborate with internal architecture, hardware, software, firmware, and mechanical teams to drive the specifications of AEye's lidar and its variants. You evaluate and characterize lidar technologies and products, develop physics-based models, build and test prototype modules and samples, and run lab and field tests to validate performance against specifications. Working across cross-functional teams, you help meet system-level targets, partnering with engineering, program, and business development.
Job responsibilities
- Specification and requirements: collaborate with internal architecture, hardware, software, firmware, and mechanical teams to drive the specifications of the lidar and its variants.
- Evaluation and characterization: evaluate and characterize lidar technologies, subsystems, and products. Develop physics-based models to predict and assess performance, and define the KPIs (for example range, accuracy,…
- Prototyping and validation: define and work on prototype modules and samples, perform bench bring-ups, and execute lab and field tests to validate module performance against specifications, including environmental and…
- Cross-functional collaboration: work with cross-functional teams to meet system-level targets, debug hardware and software interfaces, and resolve data quality and point cloud issues at the system level.
- Manufacturing transition: support the transition of prototypes through R&D validation into production, including production integration, calibration, and design-for-x.