Latitude AI (lat.ai) develops automated driving technologies, including L3, for Ford vehicles at scale. We’re driven by the opportunity to reimagine what it’s like to drive and make travel safer, less stressful, and more enjoyable for everyone.  

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 making a real, positive impact on the driving experience for millions of people. 

As a Ford Motor Company subsidiary, we operate independently to develop automated driving technology at the speed of a technology startup. Latitude is headquartered in Pittsburgh with engineering centers in Dearborn, Mich., and Palo Alto, Calif.

Meet the team:

As Latitude’s Data Platform team, our mission is to build the scalable, high-performance infrastructure that turns structured data into insight to drive Latitude’s business forward. We provide foundational solutions for handling, processing and visualizing large-scale data to ensure every team at Latitude—from Autonomy to Machine Learning to Fleet Operations—can measure what matters.

We promote Data as a Product; this means applying rigorous software engineering discipline to data assets: versioning, public/private interfaces for data models, and a relentless focus on automated testing. To scale these principles across our org, we design self-service systems that prioritize continuous, iterative delivery, developer velocity, cost transparency and efficiency by default.

What you’ll do: 

In this role, you will help build and evolve:

• A High-Performance Cloud-Native Stack: Work with a blend of serverless cloud analytics tools and self-hosted Kubernetes deployments to serve a diverse range of internal stakeholders
• Abstracted Data Frameworks: Develop internal tooling that enables engineers to self-serve data loading and testing. You’ll work on systems capable of handling high-throughput, low-latency streaming and massively parallel bulk loads scaling to hundreds of terabytes daily, with robust support for generic and customer-defined data unit and integration testing and monitoring. You’ll work closely with teams such as Latitude’s Autonomy Analytics team, among many others, to understand and generalize platform feature needs and provide guidance/documentation on usage
• Open Source & Custom Tooling: We deploy and scale industry-leading data engineering and analytics tools. We lean into the open-source ecosystem, deploying and extending OS solutions such as dbt, Airflow and Superset to serve Latitude’s unique autonomy and ML use cases
• A Rich Metadata Layer: Provide the automation and cataloging tools that serve as the backbone for discovery and tracing. You will play a key role in enabling a well-documented data front ready for both human exploration and LLM/RAG-based consumption

What you'll need to succeed:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics or a related field and 2+ years of relevant experience, Master's degree, or PhD
• Software Craftsmanship: Strong Python development skills with a focus on SOLID design principles. You have experience managing the full lifecycle of internal packages, from intake and design to release and maintenance.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Experience managing cloud infrastructure via Infrastructure as Code (IaC). You should be comfortable with Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, and observability via Grafana or similar.
• Data Fluency: Understanding of SQL and OLAP concepts. You are familiar with the architecture of Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) systems (e.g., BigQuery, Redshift, or ClickHouse) and understand how to optimize for both performance and cost. Experience with dbt is a plus.
• Distributed Orchestration and Streaming: Familiarity with data orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Dagster) and a conceptual understanding of distributed stream processing (e.g., the Apache Beam model). You should understand challenges like watermarks, stateful processing, and temporal consistency.
• The "Internal Customer" Mindset: You are a product-minded engineer. You have the empathy to understand the pain points of your fellow engineers and the drive to build tools that are actually useful. You maintain a high bar for quality while prioritizing high-impact delivery.

Bonus Points:

• Automated Release Engineering: A standard-bearer for CI/CD excellence. You understand how to build robust Jenkins or GitHub Actions pipelines that automate testing, linting, and deployment, ensuring a high-velocity but safe development environment.
• Privacy & Security by Design: Experience with end-to-end security and isolation. You understand the importance of least-privilege access, service account management, and automated data anonymization/governance.

What we offer you:

• Competitive compensation packages
• High-quality individual and family medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Health savings account with available employer match
• Employer-matched 401(k) retirement plan with immediate vesting
• Employer-paid group term life insurance and the option to elect voluntary life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Paid medical leave
• Unlimited vacation
• 15 paid holidays
• Daily lunches, snacks, and beverages available in all office locations
• Pre-tax spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care expenses
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Adoption/Surrogacy support program
• Backup child and elder care program
• Professional development reimbursement
• Employee assistance program
• Discounted programs that include legal services, identity theft protection, pet insurance, and more
• Company and team bonding outlets: employee resource groups, quarterly team activity stipend, and wellness initiatives

Learn more about Latitude’s team, mission and career opportunities at lat.ai!

The expected base salary range for this full-time position in California is $150,320 - $225,480 USD. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Latitude employees are also eligible to participate in Latitude’s annual bonus programs, equity compensation, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.

Candidates for positions with Latitude AI must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status.

Why you'll love this role

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be empowered to leverage data to drive amazing customer experiences and business results. You will own the end to end development of data engineering solutions to support analytical needs of the business. The ideal candidate will be passionate about working with disparate datasets and be someone who loves to bring data together to answer business questions at speed. You should have deep expertise in the creation and management of datasets and the proven ability to translate the data into meaningful insights through collaboration with analysts, data scientists and business stakeholders.You will partner with accounting and finance business teams in expanding Financial Data Repository to support new business initiatives. Sr Data Engineer of Finance Data Repository is most challenging and exciting role to work for, with new business initiative launches in payments, finance , tax and ordering platform. Its highly critical to manage the changes on daily basis for proper accounting to keep our books clean and accurate. 

What you'll do

• Design and build mission critical data pipelines with a highly scalable distributed architecture - including data ingestion (streaming, events and batch), data integration, data curation
• Help continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, simplifying self-service support for business stakeholders
• Build and support reusable framework to ingest, integration and provision data
• Automation of end to end data pipeline with metadata, data quality checks and audit 
• Build and support a big data platform on the cloud
• Define and implement automation of jobs and testing
• Optimize the data pipeline to support ML workloads and use cases
• Support mission critical applications and near real time data needs from the data platform
• Capture and publish metadata and new data to subscribed users
• Work collaboratively with business analysts, product managers, data scientists as well as business partners and actively participate in design thinking session
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Motivate, coach, and serve as a role model and mentor for other development team associates/members that leverage the platform 

About you

• 5 to 7 years experience in data warehouse / data lake house technical architecture
• 3+ years of experience in using programming languages (Python / Scala / Java / C#) Minimum
• 3 years of Big Data and Big Data tools in one or more of the following: Batch Processing (e.g. Hadoop distributions, Spark), Real time processing (e.g. Kafka, Flink/Spark Streaming)
• Minimum of 2 years' experience with AWS or engineering in other cloud environments
• Strong Knowledge of Databricks SQL/Scala - Data Engineering Pipelines
• Experience with Database Architecture/Schema design
• Strong familiarity with batch processing and workflow tools such as dbt, AirFlow, NiFi
• Ability to work independently with business partners and management to understand their needs and exceed expectations in delivering tools/solutions
• Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills and ability to present complex technical/analytical concepts to executive audience
• Strong business mindset with customer obsession; ability to collaborate with business partners to identify needs and opportunities for improved data management and delivery
• Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring other engineers for best practices on data engineering
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field

Why you'll love this role

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be empowered to leverage data to drive amazing customer experiences and business results. You will own the end to end development of data engineering solutions to support analytical needs of the business. The ideal candidate will be passionate about working with disparate datasets and be someone who loves to bring data together to answer business questions at speed. You should have deep expertise in the creation and management of datasets and the proven ability to translate the data into meaningful insights through collaboration with analysts, data scientists and business stakeholders.You will partner with accounting and finance business teams in expanding Financial Data Repository to support new business initiatives. Sr Data Engineer of Finance Data Repository is most challenging and exciting role to work for, with new business initiative launches in payments, finance , tax and ordering platform. Its highly critical to manage the changes on daily basis for proper accounting to keep our books clean and accurate. 

What you'll do

• Design and build mission critical data pipelines with a highly scalable distributed architecture - including data ingestion (streaming, events and batch), data integration, data curation
• Help continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, simplifying self-service support for business stakeholders
• Build and support reusable framework to ingest, integration and provision data
• Automation of end to end data pipeline with metadata, data quality checks and audit 
• Build and support a big data platform on the cloud
• Define and implement automation of jobs and testing
• Optimize the data pipeline to support ML workloads and use cases
• Support mission critical applications and near real time data needs from the data platform
• Capture and publish metadata and new data to subscribed users
• Work collaboratively with business analysts, product managers, data scientists as well as business partners and actively participate in design thinking session
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Motivate, coach, and serve as a role model and mentor for other development team associates/members that leverage the platform 

About you

• 5 to 7 years experience in data warehouse / data lake house technical architecture
• 3+ years of experience in using programming languages (Python / Scala / Java / C#) Minimum
• 3 years of Big Data and Big Data tools in one or more of the following: Batch Processing (e.g. Hadoop distributions, Spark), Real time processing (e.g. Kafka, Flink/Spark Streaming)
• Minimum of 2 years' experience with AWS or engineering in other cloud environments
• Strong Knowledge of Databricks SQL/Scala - Data Engineering Pipelines
• Experience with Database Architecture/Schema design
• Strong familiarity with batch processing and workflow tools such as dbt, AirFlow, NiFi
• Ability to work independently with business partners and management to understand their needs and exceed expectations in delivering tools/solutions
• Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills and ability to present complex technical/analytical concepts to executive audience
• Strong business mindset with customer obsession; ability to collaborate with business partners to identify needs and opportunities for improved data management and delivery
• Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring other engineers for best practices on data engineering
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field