CareerPlan

Senior Software Engineer, Mapping - Autonomous Vehicles

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$152k2026-08-29 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design and develop algorithms for map-based driving products, architecture for map providers and data fusion, and efficient in-vehicle code for autonomous vehicles.

Role type

Senior Software Engineer (Autonomous Vehicles Mapping)

Builds

SD maps for in-car consumers, scalable map-building workflows, and transformer-based models for graphs.

Domain

Autonomous Vehicles / Computer Vision / Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

C++14, Computer Vision, 3D Geometry, Machine Learning, Transformer models, Graph Neural Networks, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, gRPC, Flat Buffers, Protocol Buffers, CUDA, Embedded software, Real-time operating systems

Preferred skills

NDS.Live, Open Street Maps, GPGPU programming, Advanced AI coding tools (Claude CLI, Cursor)

Responsibilities

Design and develop algorithms for map-based driving products; Architecture design for map provider, health monitors and data fusion with perception; Develop highly efficient in-vehicle code in C++14 or later; Research and develop transformer based models tailored for graphs; Implement evaluation frameworks to measure performance of large scale LLM's; Analyze and fine-tune SOTA pretrained models on domain specific datasets; Build automated map content analysis in Python, JavaScript or TypeScript; Create scalable and distributed map-building workflows

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC