Seyond
Senior/Staff Application Engineer – LiDAR Systems
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Staff+ · Contract
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About the role
- In this highly cross-functional and customer-facing role, you will serve as the technical bridge between customers, business development, product management, and engineering.
- You will take ownership of complex customer applications, ensure successful product integration in real-world environments, and translate field experience into actionable improvements for our products and solutions.
- The ideal candidate combines strong system-level technical knowledge, hands-on problem-solving skills, and the ability to communicate effectively with both engineering teams and customers.
Responsibilities
- Develop a deep understanding of customer applications, system architectures, performance requirements, and operating environments.
- Conduct structured root-cause investigations, reproduce customer-reported issues, analyze logs and sensor data, and work with engineering teams to drive issues to resolution.
- Develop and maintain high-quality technical documentation, including integration guides, application notes, troubleshooting procedures, training materials, test reports, and best-practice documents.
- Collaborate closely with optical, electrical, mechanical, firmware, software, algorithm, product, quality, and manufacturing teams to resolve technical issues and improve product performance.
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for strategic customers throughout evaluation, integration, validation, deployment, and production support.
- Lead customer integration, proof-of-concept, and field-validation activities, including test planning, data collection, performance analysis, and issue resolution.
- Clearly document technical findings, risks, recommendations, and action items, and communicate them effectively to engineering teams, customers, and management.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate complex issues methodically and drive them to closure.
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to approximately 20% for customer meetings, installations, testing, demonstrations, and field support.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Optical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
- Hands-on experience with Linux-based systems, embedded computing platforms, and sensor integration.
- Ability to work independently, prioritize multiple customer engagements, and make sound technical decisions in fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous situations.
Nice to have
- Experience with LiDAR, radar, cameras, imaging systems, robotics sensors, or other complex sensing products is strongly preferred.
- Experience with ROS or ROS 2, sensor SDKs, APIs, Git, Docker, Open3D, PCL, OpenCV, or similar development and integration tools is preferred.
- Familiarity with cameras, IMUs, GNSS, radar, sensor fusion, or autonomous-system computing platforms is a plus.
Skills
- Experience working with LiDAR point-cloud data, sensor logs, visualization tools, performance analysis, and system validation.
- Strong learning ability and the capacity to quickly understand new products, technologies, and customer applications.
Compensation
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Benefits
- A variety of health insurance plans
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Paid parental leave
- Wellness reimbursement
Company info
- Founded in Silicon Valley with a global footprint, Seyond is dedicated to the highest quality engineering and manufacturing, and unwavering commitment to our customers.
- We are seeking an experienced Senior/Staff Application Engineer to join our System & Application Engineering team and lead the integration, deployment, validation, and technical support of our LiDAR sensing products.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical topics clearly to customers, engineers, and business stakeholders.
Visa & Work Authorization
- This job requisition is not eligible for employment-based immigration sponsorship by Seyond.
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