About the job
Latitude AI (lat.ai) is at the forefront of developing advanced automated driving technologies, including Level 3 automation, for Ford vehicles at scale. Our mission is to reimagine transportation by making journeys safer, less stressful, and more enjoyable for everyone.
Joining the Latitude team means collaborating with top-tier professionals in fields such as machine learning, robotics, cloud platforms, mapping, sensors, compute systems, test operations, and safety engineering—all committed to having a meaningful and positive impact on the driving experience for millions.
As a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company, we operate with the agility of a tech startup, headquartered in Pittsburgh, with engineering centers in Dearborn, Michigan, and Palo Alto, California.
Meet the Team:
The Cloud Platform engineers at Latitude are responsible for designing reusable infrastructure through code, allowing our teams to build scalable and secure solutions. They provide guidance on architecting solutions for optimization, ensuring effective changes are automated and reviewed. This role includes managing our workload ecosystem on Kubernetes across public and hybrid cloud environments.
The Cloud Platform team collaborates with various engineering groups, including data ingestion, mapping, machine learning, motion planning, and deployment, to enhance development practices and promote scalable efficiency with cloud-native technologies.
What You'll Do:
- Design and scale a multi-tenant, hybrid-cloud Kubernetes platform to facilitate seamless workload portability across both public and internal environments.
- Create custom Kubernetes operators and self-service abstractions, simplifying complex infrastructure for autonomous vehicle engineering teams.
- Enhance performance of distributed workloads...

