Software Engineer, AV Frameworks – Early Career

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Build and debug high-performance IPC and middleware primitives (publish/subscribe, shared memory, serialization, discovery, QoS).
• Drive latency, throughput, and determinism improvements through profiling, tracing, benchmarking, and targeted optimizations.
• Build developer-facing APIs , tooling, and documentation that improve ergonomics, correctness, and velocity for internal customers.
• Deliver platform-ready components with observability (metrics, logs, traces), robust fault handling, and reproducible performance characteristics.
• Work alongside experienced engineers platform OS, drivers, safety, controls, perception , and tooling teams to ramp up on AV software.
• Apply production rigor : code reviews, testing strategies (unit, integration, soak), performance and regression gates, and rollout/rollback discipline.
• Grow through progressively more complex assignments spanning design, implementation, integration, and testing.

Job requirements

• Recently completed a BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/ Computer Engineering, Robotics , or a degree in a related field.
• Strong background in modern C++ (20/23) and Python development, demonstrated through coursework, internships, research, or substantial projects.
• Strong grasp of software fundamentals including concurrency, memory management, lock-free or low-contention patterns, and performance profiling .
• Hands-on experience with IPC/messaging systems and distributed systems fundamentals (serialization, backpressure, flow control, QoS).
• Knowledge of linux -based networking (sockets, TCP/UDP, multicast, NICs, buffers, MTU, packetization) .
• Ability to debug complex software problems, reason about system behavior, and communicate clearly in a collaborative team environment.
• Interest in autonomous vehicles, robotics, embedded systems, or high-performance software.
• Robotics/AV middleware: ROS 2 , DDS , gRPC .