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Senior System Software Engineer - AV Platform

US, CA, Santa Clara💼 Full-time💰 $152,000–$152,000🗓 2026-07-17 → 2026-09-25

Core

Designing and implementing performant, scalable system software and middleware for autonomous vehicle fleets, integrating sensors and optimizing data processing.

Role type

Senior System Software Engineer (Autonomous Vehicles)

Builds

Autonomous Driving Platform software, sensor abstraction layers, data recording/mining tools, service frameworks

Domain

Autonomous Vehicles, Embedded Systems, Real-time Operating Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

C++, C, Python, Linux, QNX, ROS, real-time operating systems, embedded system programming, threading, synchronization, parallel computing, CPU/GPU architecture, memory management

Preferred skills

Sensor integration, performance optimization, kernel-space development, low-level hardware interaction, multi-computer/heterogeneous architectures

Technologies

C++, C, Python, Linux, QNX, ROS

Responsibilities

Integrate sensors into AV driving software stack, develop startup user experience, build data recording and mining software, work on sensor abstraction layers and data serialization, collaborate with hardware, platform, safety, and cloud teams

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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