Senior Software Engineer, Autonomy Core Frameworks

Role overview

Set technical direction for the foundational software frameworks used by an autonomous driving system. You will shape architecture and implementation for real-time C++ components, helping autonomy teams build reliable, testable, and maintainable systems for automated freight vehicles.

Responsibilities

- Architect and evolve core frameworks for state management, component communication, shared abstractions, and common utilities. - Guide real-time software patterns for system-wide data flow, component coordination, error handling, and observability. - Make and communicate long-term design decisions, weighing tradeoffs in support of scalable autonomy capabilities. - Collaborate with behavior and perception teams to maintain clear integration boundaries and coherent shared interfaces. - Lead design, architecture, and code reviews; establish standards for reliability, maintainability, and testing. - Mentor engineers and guide validation, simulation, root-cause analysis, and architectural improvements.

Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, robotics, electrical engineering, or a related discipline with at least eight years of professional software experience; alternatively, a master’s degree with at least six years. - Demonstrated ownership of architecture for complex production software platforms. - Deep experience with C++17 or newer and practical scripting in Python. - Background in autonomous systems, robotics, distributed systems, or complex embedded software using publish-subscribe middleware. - Strong grounding in modular design, concurrency, testing, continuous integration, and long-term maintainability. - Ability to lead technical discussions, mentor engineers, and communicate architecture decisions across teams.

Nice to have

Experience with ROS 2 or other robotics middleware; distributed systems concepts such as state synchronization or event-driven design; safety standards including ISO 26262 or ASPICE; Bazel, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions; observability systems; simulation-based regression testing; or data schema versioning.

Benefits and work setup

The stated U.S. hiring range is $160,800–$193,000, with a bonus component and stock options. Benefits include employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums, a 401(k) match, flexible scheduling, paid vacation, and life and accidental death coverage.