Lucid‘s Director of Connectivity has left the Saudi-backed EV maker after nine and a half years, a period in which he says he led the team that built the platform delivering over-the-air updates to its vehicles.
“Today marks my official last day at Lucid Motors after nearly a decade,” Prateek Khatri wrote in a LinkedIn post late on Friday.
He did not say where he was going, and Lucid had not announced the departure. “Stay tuned, more to share soon on the next adventure!” he wrote.
Khatri thanked the engineers who worked for him.
“You met every impossible deadline with grit, set an incredible bar for engineering craftsmanship, and made the toughest challenges genuinely fun,” he wrote.
From Battery Firmware to the Cloud
Khatri joined Lucid on April 1, 2017, he said in the post, and began as a Firmware Engineer working on battery software for Formula E, after an internship at Tesla, his LinkedIn profile shows.
He recalled early days travelling to race tracks in Spain for integration work with manufacturers.
He was later asked to start the company’s connectivity work from nothing, when Lucid restarted its sedan program.
“Taking connectivity from a blank whiteboard all the way to production scale across the fleet fundamentally shaped who I am as an engineer and leader,” he wrote.
His profile describes him as the founding engineer of Lucid’s telematics control unit division in 2018, and as managing the developers who delivered the telematics and over-the-air software for the launch of the Lucid Air.
He became Senior Manager of Connectivity in 2022, leading an engineering organization of more than 30 people, and Director of Connectivity in June 2025, according to the profile.
In that role he was responsible for vehicle connectivity, remote diagnostics, over-the-air updates and real-time communication between the car and the mobile app, Khatri says on his LinkedIn profile.
The profile also lists the technology roadmap for 5G, the eCall emergency system and edge computing among his responsibilities, along with the introduction of AI tools into Lucid’s software development process.
OTA Updates
Khatri singled out the platform that sends software to Lucid’s cars as a highlight of his time at the company.
“Having the trust of Gabor and Michael Bell to architect and build the cloud platform powering OTA updates across all our vehicles was an incredible highlight,” he wrote, referring to Gabor Lengyel, whom he thanked as a mentor, and to Lucid’s former Senior Vice President of Digital.
Bell resigned in May 2024 “in order to pursue other opportunities,” Lucid said in a regulatory filing at the time.
The filing said he would advise the company until August 12, 2024, for a consulting fee of $125,000.
A press release issued in April, announcing Khatri’s inclusion in Marquis Who’s Who, described how that platform came about.
In 2023, when third-party vendors failed to meet Lucid’s requirements, Khatri “led his team in architecting an innovative, proprietary solution” for over-the-air updates, the release said.
It was deployed within four months and has since processed about one million updates, according to the release. The announcement gave his title as Director of Software Engineering for Connectivity.
It said his work covered telemetry, wireless connectivity, embedded vehicle software, cloud services and the management of over-the-air updates across the fleet.
Software Under Pressure
Connectivity and over-the-air updates sit at the centre of Lucid’s effort to fix the software of its Gravity SUV.
The company has issued at least eight software and firmware releases addressing the Gravity’s key fob, delivered to owners over the air and through its mobile app.
Its most recent Gravity update, version 3.6.5, arrived on September 25 to correct windows that reopened after closing.
The long-awaited new interface for the Air sedan surfaced days later, after the company had said it was concentrating resources on that release.
A Run of Exits
The departure follows a series of exits from Lucid’s engineering and software ranks this year.
Emad Dlala, Senior VP of Engineering and Software, left in June.
Jean-Philippe Gauthier, VP of Digital, left for Amazon’s Zoox in July after nearly 13 years, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Dlala had overseen both vehicle engineering and software.
Sanjay Chandra, VP of IT, confirmed in August that he had left, after EV reported his exit in July.
An engineer on the robotaxi programme, Andrew Chen, left for Nvidia in September.
The exits have come during a restructuring under Chief Executive Officer Silvio Napoli, who took the role on June 1.
Lucid cut about 18% of its US workforce in June, and in July named a new leadership team that included Kay Stepper as President of Lucid Technologies and Chief Digital Officer, with responsibility for robotaxis, AI, autonomy and enterprise IT.
Friday’s post does not mention the restructuring.
Khatri’s last day came on the same day that Lucid told Gravity owners that its Phone as a Key feature had been delayed to the first quarter of 2027.
