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At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.
We care deeply about delivering the best transportation experience; this means the best experience for the passenger and the best experience for the driver. We believe this quality of service can only be achieved with a deep understanding of our world, our cities, our streets… how they evolve, how they breathe. We embrace the powerful positive impact autonomous transportation will bring to our everyday lives and with our ambition, we will become a leader in the development and operation of such vehicles. Thanks to our network, with hundreds of millions of rides every year, we have the means to make autonomy a safe reality. As a member of Level 5, you will have the opportunity to develop and deploy tomorrow’s hardware & software solutions and thereby revolutionize transportation.
As a Power Electronics Engineer at Level 5, you will work on various PCBA designs for power, compute, and controls. You will work cross-functionally to gather requirements, come up with architectural design and get buy-in from core technical team members. You will translate design architecture into implementation through component selection, schematic capture, layout, functional review, fab, bringup, test, all the way to mid-volume production.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the developments of power electronics control units, HV/LV DC/DC, or LV power distribution boards
- Propose creative and reliable power electronic solutions that will help the L5 Power team to meet internal technical requirements
- Be on top of the latest implementation method in LV power redundancy
- Lead the integration effort of power ECU integration with the base vehicle prototype
- Working cross-functionally to manage and troubleshoot technical challenges including thermal, FW, and mechanical
Experience:
- Over 5+ years of hands-on experience required in the design and development of power electronics including automotive power electronics (e.g. DC/DC, ECU, BMS and other power solutions for automotive applications)
- Deep understanding in tradeoffs in component and design parameter selections for switch-mode power converter design
- Solid fundamentals in board-level and system-level grounding schemes
- Application experience with power switches including, MOSFET, GaN etc
- Embedded control hardware application (uP or DSP), including power supply, interfacing and protection circuits
- Demonstrable experience with typical power electronics simulation and analysis approaches and software packages
- PCB design experience, preferably with NEXUS Altium, including good knowledge of noise reduction approaches
- Understanding of power electronics hardware integration in to vehicles and the challenges that brings
- Ability to interface with test, mechanical, software, systems, and functional safety teams during product design cycle
- Understanding of requirements traceability, configuration management, design for CISPR EMC compliance
- Design bring-up and test procedures for electronic systems. Troubleshoot, root cause, and drive issue to closure
- Work cross functionally to define board/system level architecture
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, good communication and collaboration skills
- Experience with process development
- Produce specifications and other relevant design documentation
- Familiarity with circuit and wiring harness schematic capture tools
At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.
From day one, Lyft’s mission has been to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. And self-driving cars are critical to that mission: they can make our streets safer, cities greener, and traffic a thing of the past. That’s why we started Level 5, our self-driving division, where we’re building a self-driving system to operate on the Lyft network.
Level 5 is looking for doers and creative problem solvers to join us in developing the leading self-driving system for ridesharing. Our team members come from diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise, and each has the opportunity to have an outsized influence on the future of our technology. Our world-class software and hardware experts work in brand new garages and labs in Palo Alto, California, and offices in London, England and Munich, Germany. And we’re moving at an incredible pace: we’re currently servicing employee rides in our test vehicles on the Lyft app. Learn more at lyft.com/level5.
Lyft’s autonomous vehicle architecture consists of a sophisticated network of sensors, high-performance computers, and embedded microcontrollers. As a member of the embedded software team, you will design, architect, and implement the real-time systems that drive our autonomous vehicles and make a large impact on the future of Lyft’s autonomous efforts.
Responsibilities:
- Work with the team to design, architect, and implement critical real-time embedded systems for autonomous vehicles
- Be excited about working on software closely connected to hardware and cars
- Deliver high-quality C/C++ code
- Collaborate with hardware, systems, and autonomy teams
- Participate in hands-on hardware bringup, system debugging, and code optimization
- Participate in hardware and software systems design reviews
- Be a team player on everything from developing infrastructure to doing code reviews
Experience:
- 3+ years software embedded experience
- Extensive programming experience in C/C++
- Strong background in object oriented design, prioritizing testability and reusability
- Deep knowledge of embedded programming platforms
- Knowledge of ARM, x86, or similar processor architectures
- Helpful: understanding of real-time OS architecture and designs (e.g. FreeRTOS, threadx, etc)
Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
at Lyft
At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.
We care deeply about delivering the best transportation experience; this means the best experience for the passenger and the best experience for the driver. We believe this quality of service can only be achieved with a deep understanding of our world, our cities, our streets… how they evolve, how they breathe. We embrace the powerful positive impact autonomous transportation will bring to our everyday lives and with our ambition, we will become a leader in the development and operation of such vehicles. Thanks to our network, with hundreds of millions of rides every year, we have the means to make autonomy a safe reality. As a member of Level 5, you will have the opportunity to develop and deploy tomorrow’s hardware & software solutions and thereby revolutionize transportation.
As a cloud infrastructure engineer, you will be responsible for building and operating the foundational pieces and frameworks of our cloud footprint. You will focus on tools and frameworks for deployments, provisioning, scheduling, observability, security, and routing across our large scale computing environment.
We are made up of systems and software engineers who provide foundational cloud and deployment platforms including Kubernetes, AWS, Spinnaker, Vault, and Envoy. We manage our multi-region AWS footprint and build the tools and services that Level 5 relies on every day to build the autonomous future.
Every day we compile millions of lines of code, drive thousands of miles in simulation, process hundreds of terabytes of data, and scale up or down thousands of compute instances. All of these rely on the foundation that we build and operate for the whole autonomous vehicle program. If you are excited to help drive this mission, we should talk!
Responsibilities:
- Create resilient and scalable infrastructure that enables rapid iteration across all of Level 5
- Manage and expand our multi-region, interconnected Kubernetes cloud infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code (we use Terraform)
- Build and maintain Kubernetes operators and controllers to provide friendly abstractions and capabilities for our client teams to use
- Expand and manage Spinnaker deployments across a mix of Kubernetes, EC2 and on-prem delivery targets
- Identify infrastructure performance bottlenecks and determine the best solution to continue to scale our compute clusters to continually process more jobs and more data at a faster pace
- Ensure operational excellence of our cloud footprint by providing observability into system health and execution and by building tools and dashboards to monitor and improve efficiency
- Be a force multiplier by sharing infrastructure knowledge and advocating for best practices across the entire Autonomous organization
- Support the Autonomous organization in their cloud needs by providing an amazing developer experience while balancing organizational needs, timelines, and costs
Experience:
- Strong knowledge of Software Engineering and Computer Science fundamentals with 3+ years of relevant professional experience
- Experience designing resilient architectures with public cloud offerings (AWS is a must)
- Experience with containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes), Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform), and observability stacks (e.g. Google Cloud Logging, Wavefront)
- Programming experience in one or more of Golang, Java, Python
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with proven ability to uplift others and work effectively with a diverse group of talented engineers
At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.
We care deeply about delivering the best transportation experience; this means the best experience for the passenger and the best experience for the driver. We believe this quality of service can only be achieved with a deep understanding of our world, our cities, our streets… how they evolve, how they breathe. We embrace the powerful positive impact autonomous transportation will bring to our everyday lives and with our ambition, we will become a leader in the development and operation of such vehicles. Thanks to our network, with hundreds of millions of rides every year, we have the means to make autonomy a safe reality. As a member of Level5, you will have the opportunity to develop and deploy tomorrow’s hardware & software solutions and thereby revolutionize transportation.
Lyft’s autonomous vehicle architecture consists of a sophisticated network of sensors, high-performance computers, and embedded microcontrollers. As a member of the Systems Engineering team, you will perform a comprehensive, iterative technical management process that includes translating product requirements into configured systems, integrating the technical inputs of the entire design team, managing interfaces, managing technical risk, transitioning technology from the industrial and research base into program specific efforts and verifying those designs meet operational needs.
Responsibilities:
- Work cross-functionally with product, technical program management, software, mechanical, and electrical engineering to integrate and verify sub-systems for autonomous vehicles
- Define and track systems requirements
- Define and support execution of systems verification and validation testing
- Define system and sub-system level architecture
- Perform trade studies on autonomous vehicle sensors and system components such as compute, network/timing, IMU, GNSS, etc…
- Lead cross-functional technical design reviews
- Support the functional safety processes
Experience:
- 5+ years of professional work experience, preferably working around complex system development
- Master’s degree in one of the following fields: mechanical, electrical, computer engineering, or related disciplines
- Demonstrated experience performing engineering analysis & trade studies of entire system covering electronics, mechanical components, controls, and safety
- Demonstrated experience defining and executing verification and validation testing for complex systems
- Strong experience in one of the following fields: sensors (camera, radar, lidar), controls, geo-localization (GPS & IMU), or computer architecture
- Experience in the design and development of automotive or related electrical and electronic systems and/or components (including sensor and remote sensing technologies) or computer architectures or hardware/software for safety critical applications
- Ability to influence, negotiate, and inspire others in a matrixed environment
- Ability to communicate highly technical problems and solutions at all levels from engineer to C-level executives
- Proven ability to operate effectively and autonomously across multiple teams in situations of ambiguity, with only high level direction
- Experience developing complex systems combining remote sensing technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Controls for a safety critical application
- Experience in requirement derivation, tracking and verification tests processes (V diagram) in automotive applications
- Understanding of typical vehicle communication protocols/interfaces
- Experience in systems integration, vehicle testing, functional safety, and vehicle launch
- Software coding skills (matlab, python or C/C++)
At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.
From day one, Lyft’s mission has been to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. And self-driving cars are critical to that mission: they can make our streets safer, cities greener, and traffic a thing of the past. That’s why we started Level 5, our self-driving division, where we’re building a self-driving system to operate on the Lyft network.
Level 5 is looking for doers and creative problem solvers to join us in developing the leading self-driving system for ridesharing. Our team members come from diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise, and each has the opportunity to have an outsized influence on the future of our technology. Our world-class software and hardware experts work in brand new garages and labs in Palo Alto, California, and offices in London, England and Munich, Germany. And we’re moving at an incredible pace: we’re currently servicing employee rides in our test vehicles on the Lyft app. Learn more at lyft.com/level5.
Lyft’s autonomous vehicle architecture consists of a sophisticated network of sensors, high-performance computers, and embedded microcontrollers. As a member of the Systems Integration team, you will perform an incremental and iterative effort whose goal is to ensure that the total system meets its intended purpose.
Responsibilities:
- Work cross-functionally with product, technical program management, software, mechanical, and electrical engineering to integrate and verify sub-systems for autonomous vehicles
- Define and track systems requirements
- Define and execute systems verification and validation testing
- Define system and sub-system level test architectures
- Generate test plans and manage verification events
- Generate test reports that support removal of gate blockers for autonomous data collection
- Lead cross-functional technical readiness reviews
- Support the functional safety processes
Experience:
- 4+ years of professional work experience, preferably working around complex system development
- Master’s degree in one of the following fields: mechanical, electrical, computer engineering, or related disciplines
- Demonstrated experience performing engineering analysis & trade studies of entire system covering electronics, mechanical components, controls, and safety
- Demonstrated experience defining and executing verification and validation testing for complex systems
- Strong experience in one of the following fields: sensors (camera, radar, lidar), controls, geo-localization (GPS & IMU), or computer architecture
- Experience in the design and development of automotive or related electrical and electronic systems and/or components (including sensor and remote sensing technologies) or computer architectures or hardware/software for safety critical applications
- Ability to influence, negotiate, and inspire others in a matrixed environment
- Ability to communicate highly technical problems and solutions at all levels from engineer to C-level executives
- Proven ability to operate effectively and autonomously across multiple teams in situations of ambiguity, with only high level direction
- Experience developing complex systems combining remote sensing technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Controls for a safety critical application
- Experience in requirement derivation, tracking and verification tests processes (V diagram) in automotive applications
- Understanding of typical vehicle communication protocols/interfaces
- Experience in systems integration, vehicle testing, functional safety, and vehicle launch
- Software coding skills (matlab, python or C/C++)
At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.
Started as a donation based ridesharing network in San Francisco, Lyft today provides millions of rides everyday in 200 cities- saving you the time and hassle to get to your destination. We’re moving to a world where on-demand transportation is a viable alternative to driving yourself and we need experienced analysts to support a vast network of features and software across multiple markets. Lyft is seeking applicants that are interested in understanding new software/features developed in-house and in diving deep to find the cause of issues in the system.
Our Montreal office developed the first automated bikeshare system in America, a system that has since deployed in multiple cities around the world (London, Montreal, New York, San Francisco to name a few). These are also some of the biggest bike-share systems in the world!
Responsibilities:
- Respond to our operators’ questions related to our system and problems with the system
- Bridge information between our customers, our engineering teams and between departments
- Work on implementing and improving technology-related operational processes
- Plan and execute system upgrades with our operators
- Install, configure, monitor, update and perform log analysis on various components of our stack
- Provide feedback to the product and engineering teams relative to problems encountered and possible improvements to our systems
- Support our international partners in configuration of the systems
- Prepare and train our operators in operating our system
- Can help lead large projects from idea to positive execution
- Act on feedback to learn and grow
Experience:
- Must have a degree in computer science
- Must have 3+ years of experience in technology and customer service
- Experience or exposure to distributed systems
- Experience working with databases, relational or NoSQL
- Experience with ticketing systems ideally Jira
- Experience with Linux/UNIX
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc)
- Ability to thrive in a startup environment
- Ability to write thorough, scalable and clear documentation
- Must be fluent in spoken and written English and French
At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.
Lyft Transit, Bikes, and Scooters (TBS) is North America’s largest bikeshare provider, bringing accessible, sustainable, and affordable bike and scooter rides to major cities across the country. TBS Operations Planning & Performance is hiring for an Analytics Lead to own maintenance analytics and market health metrics. The Analytics Lead will play an integral role in a flat and agile team focused on leveraging operational data to drive strategic recommendations with local market and cross-functional stakeholders. A successful candidate thrives in a dynamic and collaborative environment, has a natural curiosity, and isn’t afraid to dive deep.
Responsibilities:
- Establish operational metrics to measure market health, develop a detailed understanding of performance drivers, and identify leading or lagging indicators
- Partner with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and local markets to translate business insights into decisions and action
- Design and analyze experiments; communicate results and launch decisions
- Develop analytical frameworks to assess hardware and maintenance performance
Experience:
- 3+ years experience in a consulting, analytics/business intelligence, or related field
- Highly skilled in SQL – able to query write structured and efficient queries on large datasets for analysis; knowledge of R or
- Python is a plus
- Meticulous in producing high quality data visualization to drive business insights
- Understanding of statistics (hypothesis testing, regressions, etc.)
- Strong oral and written communication skills, and ability to collaborate with and influence cross-functional partners
- Adept at solving big picture problems with data-driven insights
- Passionate about sustainable mobility and active transportation
At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.
The Transit, Bikes, and Scooters (TBS) Operations Performance and Planning team is looking for a passionate Central Operations Lead to join us in tackling some of the most interesting and impactful problems in urban transportation. From bikes and scooters to future platforms, you will be at the forefront of driving new initiatives to revolutionize multimodal technology.
You are a strategist with an entrepreneurial spirit, who is not afraid to take risks. Partnering with cross-functional stakeholders and local operations teams, you will work in a fast paced and agile environment to lead hardware asset planning and allocation for all markets operated nationally by TBS. You must be an analytical thinker and phenomenal relationship manager, adept at crafting elegant solutions to complex problems and influencing top-level decision making.
Responsibilities:
- Lead high-visibility, cross-functional engagements to drive demand forecasting, investments, and allocation for Lyft’s current and future hardware assets (classic and electric bikes, batteries, scooters, docking stations and beyond)
- Make data-driven strategic asset planning recommendations to the TBS leadership team that balance operational, financial, commercial, and policy considerations
- Collaborate with cross-functional and local market stakeholders to continuously improve hardware asset demand planning processes and dashboards
- Manage the Operations Performance and Planning team’s monthly reforecast of bike, scooter, and station fleet deployment and service delivery plans
Experience:
- 4+ years of experience in consulting, strategy & operations, transit, technology, investment banking, analytics or related field
- Outstanding oral and written communicator who tailors the message and medium by audience and adeptly partners up, down, and across the organization
- Excellent quantitative and financial acumen
- Advanced Excel/Google Sheets skills; SQL is a plus
- Ability to clarify complexity by blending vision and detail
- Proactive and excited to take a hands-on approach to work through uncertainty
- Multi-dimensionally curious and quick to learn new concepts spanning operations, supply chain, product, engineering, design, city partnerships and beyond!
At Lyft, our mission is to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation. To do this, we start with our own community by creating an open, inclusive, and diverse organization.
Started as a donation based ridesharing network in San Francisco, Lyft today provides millions of rides everyday in 200 cities- saving you the time and hassle to get to your destination. We’re moving to a world where on-demand transportation is a viable alternative to driving yourself and we need an experienced specialist to support our People and Customer Engagement team.
Lyft is committed to building transportation that empowers people to move around their neighborhood and city without owning a car. Specifically, our goal for solving last-mile mobility is to lay the foundation for winning on bikes and scooters.
Responsibilities:
- Effectively analyzes staffing/call volume data (Mode, Teliopti, Twilio Excel, etc) and makes recommendations.
- Analyzes available data to identify opportunities for same-day staff adjustments and the need to solicit extra hours and/or voluntary time off.
- Monitors several queues & performance data points across multiple channels & sites.
- Reviews intra-day performance reports and projects adjustments for unanticipated volume shifts and staffing adherence.
- Monitors & flags/communicates global agent adherence & performance at a queue, site, & team level.
- Responds to/handles requests from Operational leadership that will impact same-day coverage for any skill/queue.
- Collect and report global data from disparate systems, providing meaningful trend analysis and data-driven recommendations and insights
- Provides regular operational reporting to the management team
- Participates in meetings focused on reviewing forecasts, shrinkages, and scheduling (globally)
- Works closely with Workforce teams globally
- Participates in outage management when required.
- Performs reporting/data entry tasks as necessary.
- Communicates business health to leadership as needed
- Creates Support Ops business health reporting measurement framework and dashboards
- Delivers insights and reporting needs to Support Delivery team as necessary
- Maintains support tools to support the TBS support organization
- Works closely with our support and engineering teams to solve rider and operator issues
- Provides feedback to the product and engineering teams relative to problems encountered and possible improvements to our systems
- Manage database of product bugs and report on progress mitigation cross-functionally
- Supports the Delivery team with deep dives and other insights related projects
- Acts as Impact & Response team point of contact to ensure delightful resolution for TBS riders
- Works cross-functionally to ensure operational consistency across all support lines of business.
- Professionally responds to internal feedback and inquiries
- Act on feedback to learn and grow
Experience:
- Commitment to excellence
- Minimum of 2 years contact center real-time management for multiple sites with multiple channels
- Previous experience with global operations preferred
- Experience using PowerBI, Tableau, or another data visualization tool
- Must have a general knowledge of support tooling systems (Zendesk, Twilio Flex, JIRA, Khoros)
- Experience with SQL
- Advanced Excel experience
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience required
- Must be self-motivated and driven
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
- Strong communication skills, both written and oral
- Strong interpersonal skills and relationship-building skills required; ability to resolve conflicts
- Ability to thrive in a startup environment
- Ability to write thorough, scalable, and clear documentation
- Ability to multi-task and meet short-term and high-intensity deadlines
- Self-sufficient, highly motivated with a desire to learn new technologies and industries
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced work environment with consistency and reliability
Benefits:
- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options
- Mental health benefits
- In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have unlimited paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off
- 401(k) plan to help save for your future
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Lyft Pink – Lyft team members get an exclusive opportunity to test new benefits of our Ridership Program
Lyft is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.