Senior Engineer, Electrical

Lumotive’s award-winning optical semiconductor solutions enable advanced sensing and perception capabilities in next-generation consumer, mobility, and industrial automation products such as mobile devices, autonomous vehicles, and robots. The company’s patented Light Control Metasurface (LCM™) beam steering chips deliver an unparalleled combination of high performance, exceptional reliability, and low cost — all in a tiny, easily integrated solution. Lumotive has received measurable industry acclaim including Laser Focus World's 2024 Innovators Award; CES Innovation Awards in 2022, 2024, and 2025; Fast Company’s Next Big Thing in Tech 2023; a 2022 SPIE PRISM Award; and a prestigious Edison Award. Investors include Gates Frontier, MetaVC Partners, Quan Funds, Samsung Ventures, and Uniquest.

Job Description:

The Senior Electrical Engineer plays a key role in a small cross-functional team in a start-up environment developing the next generation Lidar solutions for automotive, industrial and consumer applications. You will participate in defining system level requirements and functions, then translate these requirements to hardware design implementation. You will be responsible for analog, mixed signal, and high-speed digital circuit design and simulation, schematic capture, printed circuit board layout, component selection, prototype bring-up, design validation and design documentation. The candidate must have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively across internal functional teams as well as with third party suppliers, partners, and customers. The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to think creatively and to operate within a flexible, fast-paced program dedicated to advancing product development. This position reports to the Sr. Director of Hardware Engineering.  

• Responsible for all aspects of electrical designs to deliver product features, system performance and quality for low-cost high-volume 3D sensing applications. 
• Independently develop transmitter, receiver and compute boards to produce differentiated products based on Lumotive’s core technologies. 
• Responsible for the selection and evaluation of electrical components and subsystems. 
• Responsible for electrical prototyping and testing process and infrastructure. 
• Responsible for planning, execution, and reporting for design validation, electrical performance, and compliance with industry standards. 
• Responsible for board build and bring up, including working with domestic and overseas contractors and suppliers. 
• Work closely with FPGA engineers, mechanical engineers, optical engineers, system engineers, and related cross-functional engineering team members to meet technology, performance, and schedule objectives in delivering product features and requirements. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements and develop project plans. 

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. Advanced degree preferred.  
• Minimum 5 years industry experience or 3 years with advanced degree. 
• Experience in analog, mixed signal, and high-speed digital circuit design. 
• Experience designing multi-layer, high-density and complex PCB. 
• Experience in DFX and best practices for power integrity and signal integrity. 
• Experience and proficiency with schematic capture and PCB layout design tool, Altium Designer preferred. 
• Experience with high-speed differential data interfaces: MIPI CSI 2, LVDS, USB, Ethernet; and serial peripheral interfaces: SPI, I2C, UART. 
• Experience in 3D sensing related technologies (e.g., LiDAR, Radar) desired. 

Benefits include but not limited to:

Health, dental and vision

FSA, HSA

PTO plus 14 paid company holidays

401K with 3% contribution

Stock Options

Daily lunch and snacks

Life insurance and disability