Senior Systems Engineer

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.

• Specification and requirements: collaborate with internal architecture, hardware, software, firmware, and mechanical teams to drive the specifications of the lidar and its variants. Help decompose system-level targets into subsystem requirements (EE / ME / FW / SW).
• 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, false alarm rate, separability) used to measure it.
• 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 eye-safety standards.
• 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.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics, Optics, Mechatronics, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in optoelectronic or sensor systems engineering, preferably in lidar or active depth sensing.