Senior Software Engineer - Runtime Platform, Robot Software

Highlights

• Build shared runtime foundations powering autonomous driving across vehicle fleet.
• Investigate end-to-end performance to meet latency and reliability goals.
• Enable on-road experiments that train next-gen driving models.

What they offer

• Salaries benchmarked against the market annually
• Meaningful equity sharing in ownership and long-term success
• Relocation support where applicable
• Hybrid working with core hours and hands-on work in vehicle workshops and labs
• Learning and development budgets with support for training and conferences
• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, enhanced parental leave, pension, wellbeing support and team socials

Ideal candidate

Systems-minded engineer who loves deep performance investigation and building shared foundations others rely on. You thrive in ambiguous, ownership-heavy environments and enjoy turning data into clear architectural decisions.

Requirements

• Strong software-development experience in C++
• Proficient with performance-profiling tools and techniques for finding and resolving system bottlenecks
• Proven, methodical approach to designing experiments and evaluating results
• Strong foundation in OS scheduling, computer architecture, memory hierarchy, CPU caches, context switching and thread synchronisation
• Experience developing or maintaining middleware, application frameworks, communication infrastructure, lifecycle management or shared runtime services
• Ability to design maintainable interfaces and help multiple teams integrate shared components
• Ability to collaborate across teams to turn performance data into architectural and optimisation decisions