2024 Summer Internship: Software Engineer, Perception

Palo Alto, CA, 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: 

• Collaborate with perception experts and experienced roboticist to build solutions that scale from the lab to the customer, for one of the largest-scale robotics projects in history
• Architect, design, and implement state of the art and beyond solutions in your domain- some example domains that are within our remit:
• Sensing: From the sensor driver to objects, algorithms to determine everything in the world and its properties
• Machine Learning & Data Platform: Cloud services for data management, ingest, workflow orchestration, distributed training at scale, and core components of our validation and safety case
• Develop production quality software in a fast-paced, highly autonomous environment while maintaining a strong safety culture

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)
• Excellent python programming and software design skills
• Experience with deep learning project design and implementation with PyTorch
• Experience with NERF related data synthesis, generation, and manipulation
• Optional experience with camera and lidar based perception
• Passion for solving challenging, impactful problems
• 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.