About the roleWe are seeking passionate Senior/Staff Software Engineers, who have strong fundamentals in software development practices and are experts in C++ language in production-oriented environment. The ideal candidate is a highly experienced C++ developer with a passion for enabling the world's first safe, reliable & efficient network of autonomous vehicles. You will partner with the research and software engineers to design, develop, test and validate AV features for our autonomous fleet.
This role will be onsite at our Santa Clara, CA office.
What you'll do- Design, implement, integrate, and support real-time mission-critical software for the Gatik's autonomy stack
- Work with the research engineers to develop maintainable, testable and robust software designs
- Architect and implement solutions to complex issues between components partitioned across the large software stack
- Be at the forefront of guiding & ensuring best SDLC practices while contributing to improving the safety in the core autonomy stack
- Collaborate with the Infrastructure and DevOps teams for efficient, secure and scalable software delivery to a network of Gatik's autonomous fleet
- Guide and mentor autonomy researchers and algorithm developers to make sure their components are running efficiently and with optimal compute and memory usage
- Review and refine technical requirements and translate them into high-level design & plans to support the development of safe AV technology
- Conduct code and design reviews and advise on technical matters
What we're looking for- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Robotics or in a related degree
- Master's or PhD degree preferred
- 7+ years relevant industry work experience in a production environment
- Expert software developer in C++ and build systems (Conan, Cmake, Bazel)
- Experience using software project management software (Jira, Confluence, etc.)
- Proven system integration and software architecture skills
- Strong background in linear/non-linear optimization, linear algebra or statistics
- Experience with building frameworks/software infrastructure for large scale projects
Bonus Qualifications- Working knowledge of the Planning and Prediction modules of the AV stack
- Working knowledge of software tools like ROS2, PyTorch
- Experience integrating and deploying AI models
Salary Range - $180,000- $260,000
