Senior Software Engineer - Robot Software Infrastructure
Develops operating-system platforms, drivers, and infrastructure for autonomous-vehicle devices and hardware-accelerated workloads. Requires 8+ years delivering production systems, strong Linux internals and C/C++ experience, and familiarity with embedded Linux or robotics is advantageous.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain the operating system platform powering on-vehicle devices and applications.
- Architect and implement platform-level software for robust, scalable robotics infrastructure.
- Configure and manage embedded Linux build systems, such as Yocto, and bootloader processes, such as U-Boot.
- Develop and optimize device drivers and kernel-space components using C, C++, or Rust.
- Collaborate with application software, release management, hardware engineering, manufacturing, and operations teams on OS integration and delivery.
- Triage issues, support new hardware bring-up, and support manufacturing functions.
Requirements
- 8+ years delivering production systems and software applications.
- Experience designing and deploying end-to-end continuous integration and validation toolchains for Linux/OS images across multiple hardware platforms.
- Proficiency with Linux internals, including init systems, containerization, filesystems, kernel-space development, device drivers, and systems programming.
- Proficiency in C/C++ and scripting languages such as Python and Bash.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with embedded Linux in robotics applications.
- Familiarity with PKI, secure boot, OTA software updates, and hardware key storage.
- Familiarity with NVIDIA GPUs, NVIDIA Thor/Orin, CUDA, and TensorRT.
- Graduate degree focused on networking, operating systems, or firmware.
Skills
Linux, Yocto, U-Boot, C, C++, Rust, Python, Bash, Device Drivers, Linux Kernel, Continuous Integration, Containerization, CUDA, TensorRT, Secure Boot
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