Software Engineer, Performance Tooling and Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain job orchestration layer for scheduling, executing, and validating autonomy performance benchmarks across physical bench-top systems, integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
• Build monitoring, alerting, and self-healing automation for the bench fleet; identify capacity bottlenecks, hardware degradation, and single points of failure.
• Design end-to-end data pipelines to capture performance metrics (CPU/GPU utilization, memory bandwidth, E2E latency, scheduling jitter) and surface insights via dashboards and regression detection.
• Collaborate with Data Science on statistical analysis, experimentation methodology, variance analysis, and significance testing for non-deterministic workloads.
• Guide SRE on OS and system-level configuration of bench hardware, including Linux kernel tuning, boot infrastructure, networking, and hardware bring-up.
• Own planning lifecycle for benchmarking fleet across hardware generations; negotiate allocation, model utilization scenarios, and present trade-off recommendations.
• Partner with Hardware Engineering, NPI, SRE, Perception, Behavior, and Data Science teams for self-service infrastructure.

Requirements

• 3+ years of industry software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python and working proficiency in C++; write clean, testable, well-documented code.
• Experience building data pipelines, ingestion, transformation, storage, and visualization; familiarity with SQL and analytical workflows.
• Deep comfort with Linux systems: kernel configuration, boot debugging, systemd units, bare-metal infrastructure, networking, storage, compute.
• Technical leadership: set vision/roadmap, drive stakeholder alignment, brief senior leadership on trade-offs.
• Use AI as core workflow (e.g., agentic tooling like Claude Code).

Nice-to-Haves

• Performance engineering experience (perf, Perfetto, pprof, eBPF, NVIDIA Nsight Systems, NVIDIA CUPTI).
• Experience in robotics or AV, especially NVIDIA DriveOS.

Compensation

Base pay range: $152,000 - $228,000, depending on experience, qualifications, education, location, skills. Eligible for annual performance bonus, equity, competitive benefits.