Senior Core Platform Engineer

What You'll Do

• Implementation and design of Avride’s core framework - both developer APIs and runtimes - building and optimizing execution graph consisting of GPU and CPU computations, scheduling execution to guarantee latency and reliability
• Building internal instrumentation and tools to keep the system observable
• Participate in system performance evaluations and help with full-system debugging
• Take long-term ownership of subsystems owned by the team, tracking their requirements and improving them over time
• Design and automate testing of the team’s components to make validation and issue-detection loops shorter
• Advocate for simplicity and long-term maintainability. Write well-structured code, produce clear design documents, and help the team resist unnecessary complexity

What You'll Need

• 5+ years of experience with C++
• 3+ years of programming experience in multi-threaded environments - multiple processes, threads, timers, and interrupts
• Experience with Linux and understanding of OS fundamentals
• Experience in diagnosing and resolving performance issues
• Proven experience of designing and shipping complex systems including scoping the problem, evaluating trade-offs, and verifying outcomes after delivery
• Strong cross-team collaboration skills - being ready to communicate with multiple teams to validate your ideas and manage testing and rollout out of your solutions

Nice to Have

• Python experience for scripting and non-time-critical tooling
• Background in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or other safety- or performance- critical systems
• Experience implementing middleware systems - execution scheduling, inter-process/inter-host transport layer, issue detection
• Experience working with large and complex systems and codebases