2024 Summer Internship: Software Engineer, Backend

Pittsburgh, PA, Palo Alto, CA, Detroit, MI, Remote

Latitude AI (lat.ai) is an automated driving technology company developing a hands-free, eyes-off driver assist system for next-generation 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:

Our Software Engineering Internship gives you an opportunity to work on complex computer science solutions, to develop scalable, distributed software systems, and also collaborate on multitudes of smaller projects that have universal appeal. All of these require research, awareness, interactivity, and the ability to ask the right questions.

This internship will be 12 weeks in length.

What you’ll do: 

• Build custom service infrastructure or high scale data processing systems in Kotlin, Java or Python 
• Develop services with a multi-region strategy deployed on AWS to achieve 99.99+ availability
• Design Latitude partner-facing APIs to communicate mapping, routing, and tracking data between autonomous vehicles and the cloud
• Design, build and operate Latitudes scalable data ingestion and processing systems in Java and Python to process the vehicle sensor and autonomy data that our autonomous vehicles collect. This involves a mix of edge computing installed in vehicle depots and AWS based systems

What you'll need to succeed:

• Pursuing a degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics or a related field.  Must be enrolled in a full time degree program at the time of the internship and for the semester following the internship (Fall 2024)
• Software Development skills in Java, Kotlin or Python for services, systems or tools development
• Experience building or working with REST or gRPC APIs
• Knowledge of cloud technologies including AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, EMR/Spark or Terraform
• Excellent communication skills are required given our distributed and diverse team

Note: At this time, Latitude AI is only able to support remote internships in the following states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, IL, MA, MD, MI, NC, NJ, NY, OH, PA, SC, TX, VA, WA, WI and Washington DC.

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

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.