Jobs at Ouster

Leads corporate communications strategy and execution, including communications calendars, press releases, messaging consistency, PR agency coordination, executive thought leadership, media support, and internal communications. Partners with C-suite leaders and Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Legal, Finance, and People teams to communicate corporate milestones, product launches, customer wins, strategy, compliance, and culture for a publicly traded technology company.

Identify and win new customers, expand revenue with existing U.S. accounts, manage complex enterprise sales cycles, develop channel relationships, communicate technical value propositions, forecast pipelines, negotiate business terms, and close deals. The role targets C-level executives at enterprise and Fortune 500 companies, with emphasis on technical consultative B2B sales in automotive and industrial markets.

Lead Ouster’s investor relations strategy, including investment messaging, quarterly earnings, sell-side analyst coverage, institutional investor targeting, roadshows, investor events, and market intelligence. Partner with the CEO, CFO, Board, Legal, Marketing, PR, FP&A, and Accounting to ensure consistent disclosures and communications. Manage IR platforms, ownership analysis, ESG-related initiatives, financial modeling, SEC disclosure coordination, and reporting on market perceptions, shareholder composition, valuation, and investor sentiment.

Leads EMEA financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and business partnership across Sales, Operations, and R&D. Advises European leadership on revenue, costs, investments, product roadmaps, and commercial performance. Oversees multi-country financial controls, ERP and planning-tool reporting, global finance coordination, and statutory support. Builds and develops the regional FP&A team while collaborating across France, the UK, Netherlands, Thailand, and the United States.

Design, build, and validate cloud data infrastructure and high-throughput pipelines for multimodal sensor (LiDAR, camera, GNSS/IMU) data. Ensure data quality, lineage, versioning, automated validation, IaC, and production stability while partnering with SW/ML teams and labeling vendors.

Lead development and execution of reliability and verification plans for autonomy hardware. Validate thermal, power, EMI/EMC, vibration, and environmental resilience of compute and electromechanical systems. Design stress tests (HALT, thermal cycling, ingress protection), run FMEA and RCAs, track field stability, and partner with functional safety teams to validate safety-rated hardware for rugged deployments.

Design and validate rugged enclosures, mounts, thermal solutions, and structural hardware for sensor-based autonomy products. Own mechanical design from concept through prototype, validation, and mass production, including CAD models, drawings, tolerance analysis, DFM, supplier engagement, and field integration.

Design and validate electrical architecture, schematics, and PCBs for autonomy products. Collaborate with HW/FW and mechanical teams to bring up, debug, and validate prototypes, support sensor integration, signal integrity, power optimization, supply chain/NPI, component qualification, and document designs through production ramp.

Lead global HR operations, architect and manage HRIS and connected systems, and ensure multinational payroll, benefits, and compliance. Build scalable HR workflows, manage international PEO/EOR relationships, advise local leaders, and coach an international HR operations team. Deliver people analytics and streamline processes across subsidiaries.

Lead global HR operations and systems, design and manage HRIS/connected tools, ensure international payroll and compliance, build scalable people workflows, manage international HR operations team and vendor/PEO/EOR relationships, and provide HR advisory to international leaders.

The AP Manager oversees the procure-to-pay lifecycle, ensuring compliant vendor payments while leading and developing a global AP team and enhancing efficiency through automation.

Own design, implementation, and maintenance of the integration testing framework. Translate manual tests to automated scripts, collaborate with developers to ensure testability, manage integration test backlog, write/run/debug tests, and support CI/CD delivery for product releases.

Supports robotics customers with LiDAR sensor onboarding, network configuration, SDK/API setup, technical triage, diagnostics, and troubleshooting across hardware, firmware, networking, Linux, and Windows environments. Reviews logs and network captures, documents bugs in Jira, replicates issues, guides customers on best practices, contributes to knowledge-base materials, and provides email, video, and phone support while escalating complex cases to senior engineers.

Lead cost analysis, standard costing, manufacturing variance reporting, inventory reserve analytics, and financial planning support for Thailand operations. Prepare close-related journal entries, reconciliations, audit schedules, dashboards, and management reporting. Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Procurement, FP&A, and Finance to identify cost reduction opportunities and provide actionable insights. Maintain ERP cost data, improve processes and controls, and coach team members on cost accounting and analytical methods.

Sell Ouster LIDAR hardware and perception software into security use cases for data centers, utilities, and critical infrastructure across North America. Manage full consultative sales cycle, deploy Gemini-Detect solutions, grow accounts and system integrator partnerships, and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure successful integrations and revenue targets.

The Product Manager will manage the roadmap for lidar sensors, communicate technical details, and lead marketing strategies while collaborating with engineering teams.

As Lead Embedded Software Engineer, you will architect and build embedded software for LIDAR systems, leading a team in a dynamic environment.

Develop and maintain Python-based automated production test infrastructure and hardware abstraction layers. Build modular, fault-tolerant test workflows, optimize high-volume data pipelines to central databases, triage test failures, and write unit tests and mocks to validate code before deploying to production lines.

The Desktop Support Engineer supports IT systems and services, handles service desk responsibilities, and configures desktop environments for users. They aid in onboarding and maintain operation procedures.

The Operations Finance Specialist will manage inventory accuracy, handle scrap processing, coordinate with manufacturers, and ensure data accuracy in the ERP system.