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Senior Software Engineer - AV Platform

US, CA, Santa Clara💼 Full-time💰 $224,000–$224,000🗓 2026-08-25 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design and implement high-performance, scalable system software for autonomous driving platforms, interacting with sensors (cameras, LiDAR, radar, GPS, IMU, CAN) and managing multi-computer/heterogeneous architectures.

Role type

Senior System Software Engineer (Autonomous Vehicles)

Builds

Autonomous Driving Platform software, middleware features, and application frameworks for self-driving car fleets.

Domain

Automotive / Embedded Systems / Real-time Computing

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

C++, C, QNX, Linux, real-time operating systems, embedded systems programming, threading, synchronization, parallel computing, CPU/GPU architecture, memory subsystem optimization

Preferred skills

Autonomous vehicles experience, robotics, GPU development, kernel-space programming, deep system architecture knowledge

Technologies

QNX, Linux, C++, C, CAN, LiDAR, radar, GPS, IMU

Responsibilities

Drive AI-based automotive systems from design to production within power/performance constraints; collaborate with hardware teams on power efficiency; triage and debug stability/performance/power issues; design systems for ISO 26262 functional safety compliance.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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