Senior Software Engineer, C++

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Design, implement, integrate, and support real-time, mission-critical software for Gatik’s autonomy stack
• Build and evolve platform capabilities that enable perception and autonomy algorithms to run reliably and efficiently in production
• Work with research engineers to translate algorithms and prototypes into maintainable, testable, production-quality software
• Architect and implement solutions to complex integration challenges across sensors, perception components, compute platforms, and the broader autonomy stack
• Optimize real-time software pipelines for latency, compute, memory usage, and system performance
• Guide and mentor autonomy researchers and algorithm developers to ensure their components run efficiently with optimal compute and memory usage
• Develop tools and frameworks for validation, benchmarking, debugging, and performance analysis of autonomy software
• Collaborate with Infrastructure and DevOps teams for efficient, secure, and scalable software delivery to Gatik’s autonomous fleet

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or a related field
• Master’s or PhD preferred
• 7+ years of relevant industry experience in a production environment
• Expert software development skills in C++ and experience with build systems such as Conan, CMake, or Bazel
• Strong system integration and software architecture experience
• Experience building real-time, high-performance software on embedded or compute-constrained systems
• Experience building software platforms, frameworks, or infrastructure supporting perception, robotics, or other complex systems
• Strong understanding of performance optimization, multithreading, memory management, and debugging