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# Senior Systems Engineer at AEye, Inc

- **Company:** AEye, Inc
- **Location:** Pleasanton, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-07-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/aeyeinc/jobs/8621673002?gh_jid=8621673002

## Job description

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.

## Key Responsibilities

- 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.

## Qualifications

Required

- 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.
- Experience collaborating across architecture, hardware, software, and mechanical teams to drive system and subsystem specifications.
- Proficiency in system simulation, performance modeling, and data analysis.
- Strong grounding in the physics of the system: lasers and device physics, optics, and signal processing, together with the optical, electrical, mechanical, and thermal aspects of system design.
- Proficiency in scripting for modeling, data analysis, and test automation (Python preferred).
- Hands-on experience evaluating and characterizing optical or electro-optical subsystems, including prototype bring-up, lab and field testing, and common failure modes.
- Experience with sensor calibration, production integration, and the transition of prototypes into production.
- Strong technical documentation: requirements, specifications, test plans, and reports.

## Preferred

- MS. or Ph.D. in a related field.
- Proficiency in C++ and the ability to read, debug, and modify production code, and experience developing algorithms for point cloud processing or calibration.
- Familiarity with automotive functional safety and qualification standards (for example ISO 26262, AEC-Q, ASPICE, AUTOSAR, MISRA, V-Model, SAFe).
- Experience with sensor fusion, time synchronization, and perception applications.
- Experience across the full lifecycle of automotive, aerospace, or industrial sensor development and production.
- Familiarity with ROS or ROS2.
- Experience with automated test scripts and CI pipelines.
- Comfortable working in Linux environments, including shell, networking basics, and log analysis.
- Project management experience or certification (for example PMP).

Position is onsite a minimum of 3 days at our Pleasanton, CA Office

Base Annual Salary Range: $140K-180K

## About AEye, Inc

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: AEye, Inc. provides software-defined lidar solutions that enable advanced driver-assistance, vehicle autonomy, smart infrastructure, security, and logistics applications.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NASDAQ: LIDR)
- **Headquarters**: Pleasanton, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Luis Dussan (Founder and Board Member)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Automotive technology, autonomous driving, lidar sensors, intelligent transportation systems, defense, and smart infrastructure.
- **Target customers**: B2B, serving automotive OEMs, trucking companies, smart infrastructure developers, defense contractors, rail operators, and logistics firms.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To create a safer, smarter world by building transformational technology that brings cutting-edge science to new markets, freeing humanity from mundane tasks and laying the foundation for a new generation of economic growth.

## Products & Services
- **Apollo™**: A production-ready, automotive-grade, software-defined lidar sensor capable of detecting objects up to 1 kilometer away. It is designed for behind-the-windshield integration and has completed extensive validation.
- **Stratos™**: A next-generation ultra-long-range lidar sensor extending detection out to 1.5 kilometers, built on the same mature, scalable architecture as Apollo.
- **OPTIS™**: A full-stack solution that fuses lidar, perception, and AI compute to detect objects, deliver real-time intelligence, and take appropriate action. It is a purpose-built physical AI system.
- **4Sight Intelligent Sensing Platform**: The underlying adaptive lidar sensor-based operating system that enhances perception by capturing accurate information faster and more reliably.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $8.0 million market cap (as of recent data).
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $233,000; Total funding of $819 million.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: NVIDIA (integration with DRIVE AGX Orin™), Taiwania Capital Management Corporation (led Series B), and a capital-light manufacturing partnership with a premier Tier-1 global partner.
- **Growth Signals**: The company has grown headcount by 12.7% year-over-year to 57 employees. It has expanded into multiple verticals beyond automotive, including aviation, defense, rail, and smart infrastructure. The company holds a strong intellectual property portfolio.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Software-Defined Architecture**: Unlike many competitors with fixed hardware, AEye’s lidar is software-defined, allowing for over-the-air upgrades and mode changes without hardware modifications.
- **Ultra-Long Range**: Apollo and Stratos offer detection out to 1 km and 1.5 km respectively, significantly outperforming cameras and human vision in range and adverse conditions.
- **Capital-Light Manufacturing Model**: AEye operates through a Tier-1 partner, allowing scalable production to tens of thousands of units annually without massive capital expenditure.
- **Compact Form Factor**: Sensors are the size of a smartphone, enabling clean behind-the-windshield integration for automotive OEMs.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expansion into New Verticals**: AEye is actively targeting markets beyond automotive, including intelligent transportation systems (traffic management, tolling), aviation (airport safety, UAV detection), defense, rail, and logistics.
- **Physical AI Integration**: The company is focusing on delivering full-stack solutions (OPTIS) that combine sensing with AI compute and action, moving beyond simple detection to real-time decision-making.
- **Scaling Production**: Leveraging its capital-light model to scale to tens of thousands of units annually through its Tier-1 partner.
- **Partnerships**: Deepening integration with NVIDIA’s DRIVE AGX Orin platform for a combined perception and compute solution.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: The company is focused on saving lives and building safer autonomous systems for transportation and infrastructure.
- **Culture**: AEye emphasizes a collaborative, idea-sharing environment with values of innovation, creativity, and integrity. They believe in empowering employees to achieve their potential.
- **Work Environment**: Flexible and collaborative, located in the greater San Francisco Bay Area (Pleasanton, CA).
- **Benefits**: Competitive compensation packages, medical/dental/vision insurance, matching 401k plan, flexible time off, weekly team lunches, office snacks, and commuter benefits.
- **Engineering Culture**: The technical team comprises 28% of the workforce, with a focus on cutting-edge lidar, perception, and AI technology. Senior-level roles are prominent (16% senior, 15% other management).
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Not explicitly stated, but the company offers a "flexible" work environment. The headquarters is in Pleasanton, CA, with a presence in Germany.

## Sources
1. [AEye Careers Page](https://www.aeye.ai/careers/)
2. [AEye Company Website](https://www.aeye.ai/)
3. [AEye Corporate Profile (Investors)](https://investors.aeye.ai/overview/corporate-profile)
4. [AEye About Page](https://www.aeye.ai/company/)
5. [AEye LinkedIn Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aeye-inc.)

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