Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure at Lucid Motors
Southfield, MI
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Aug 9, 2026
Southfield, MI
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A software engineering role on the ADAS Data Infrastructure team at Lucid Motors, focused on building and operating backend services and data pipelines that ingest, process, store, and serve large-scale sensor data (camera, LiDAR, telemetry) from autonomous vehicle fleets. The work spans the full lifecycle from service design through production operations, using Python and AWS on Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
Mid level · 3+ years · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
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Why we read it this way (5)
No work location is specified in the posting; the CBSA and state fields are left blank. Lucid Motors is headquartered in Newark, CA (San Jose, CA CBSA), but the posting does not confirm this as the role's location.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree … or equivalent practical experience', so no formal degree is treated as a hard gate.
Autonomous Driving / automotive industry experience is listed under Required Qualifications but reads more as a contextual background signal than a hard rejection criterion; it is captured as preferred to avoid over-gating.
The Preferred Qualifications section contains only soft/ownership language and a restatement of distributed-systems experience already captured under Required — no additional distinct technologies were listed there.
The alt SOC 15-1243 (Database Architects) reflects the significant data pipeline and ETL architecture component of the role, though the primary framing is backend software development.
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