Summary
Lance Martin is a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic with 12 years of experience building perception and AI systems, based in San Francisco. He helped found LangChain’s engineering team and previously led truck and mobile perception efforts at Nuro, Ike, and Uber, bringing deep expertise in autonomous vehicle perception and productionizing complex ML stacks. His background includes a PhD from Stanford and early research roles at national labs and startups, reflecting strong ties between academic rigor and applied engineering. Known on GitHub and X as @rlancemartin, his terse bio “Self-driving trucks” belies a career that spans founding teams, technical leadership, and shipping safety-critical perception systems at scale.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE BS, Bachelor of Engineering - BE BS at Dartmouth College
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Stanford University