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Software Engineer, Onboard Infrastructure

160k – 241kMountain View, CAOnsite2+ YOE
Summary

Software engineer building and optimizing onboard infrastructure for self-driving vehicles, focusing on high-performance platforms, device drivers, and performance analysis. Requires strong C++ skills and 2+ years experience.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Provide a reliable and high-performance onboard platform for autonomy teams to integrate software and algorithms across self-driving platforms
  • Collaborate with software, hardware, and systems/safety teams to ensure new software and hardware work together safely and reliably
  • Resolve onboard error and performance problems
  • Optimize performance of AV software for quick and safe reactions
  • Build systems and tools for continuous performance analysis
  • Drive latency reduction and resource efficiency efforts
  • Lay the foundation of onboard software for sensor and compute platforms, including device drivers, inter-device protocols and pipelines, and device runtime APIs
  • Create hardware-agnostic platforms for perception and autonomy SW stacks
  • Work with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to define, evaluate, and integrate next-generation HW platforms
  • Build tooling to assist continuous testing and validation

Requirements

  • 2+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or related field
  • Strong C++ skills
  • Experience in one or more of: large-scale distributed systems; computer architecture and operating systems; advanced algorithms using C++ and Python; highly-concurrent, multi-processor, and multi-threaded environments; software performance tuning and optimization; profiling and tracing tools and infrastructure (perf, eBPF, Perfetto, pprof, NVIDIA Nsight Systems/Compute); robotics software frameworks; robotics hardware components (including sensors, embedded platforms, etc); different compute modalities (x86, ARM, GPU, FPGA, etc)
  • Strong problem-solving and programming skills

Compensation & Benefits

  • Base pay range: $160,360 - $240,540
  • Annual performance bonus
  • Equity
  • Competitive benefits package
Skills
C++PythonDistributed SystemsComputer ArchitectureOperating SystemsPerformance TuningProfiling ToolsRobotics Software FrameworksEmbedded SystemsGPU Programming
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