Senior Platform Engineer (Level 4 Autonomous Vehicle Startup)

We're recruiting a Platform Engineer for a Silicon Valley-founded Autonomous Vehicle tech company that has a significant Toronto product development site. This opportunity is a unique chance to join an AV startup that is taking off. We have a strong partnership with our client having placed their Head of Software Engineering and Head of Hardware in Toronto. 

Highlights:

• Real opportunity to commercialize AV - they solve real problems and have real customers, contracts, and revenues with some of the biggest global enterprises. 

• Industry-leading team in robotics and AI that have worked successfully together in a distributed team model.

• Become one of the key Toronto-based leaders & help establish the company as a leader in the Toronto AV community.

• Collaborate with leading research teams @ U of Waterloo and U of Toronto.

Platform Engineer Summary

• The platform team builds the onboard software ecosystem that supports the development and real-time operation of our autonomous vehicles to enable an engineering framework on top of a distributed, always up-to-date, safe and secure software platform and operating system. Members of this team work at the core of the vehicle software stack.

• We are seeking talented & experienced software engineers to develop mission-critical, complex and scalable software with great passion and attention to detail when it comes to performance and robustness, and to stretch capabilities of both high-performance and constrained environments for our autonomous vehicles. 

Responsibilities

• Design and develop the real-time system and application development framework

• Implement the onboard communication layers and the task management subsystem

• Support the autonomy system developers to make sure their components are running efficiently and with minimal compute and memory usage

• Develop vehicle software and backend infrastructure systems

• Design robust, high throughput SW to power the autonomy stack

• Lay the groundwork for a large, ever evolving network of autonomous vehicles operating all over North America

• Evangelize and introduce SW design best practices and SOTA tools and frameworks

Qualifications

• Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS or related field

• Strong experience writing modern C++ and Python

• 5+ years of software development experience

• Experience building large scale service oriented applications

• Solid understanding in middleware technology and distributed systems

• Experience in systems programming and operating systems

• Experience designing and building backend systems

• Strong understanding of design fundamentals behind robust CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with cloud infrastructure

• Strong cross-team communication skills and very customer driven

Bonus Points

• Experience developing scalable APIs, frameworks and web apps with ability to build, launch, and iterate quickly

• Experience with network optimization, especially WebSockets, data compression and latency reduction

• Background in networking and real-time communication

• Experience (and lots of opinions about) building maintainable, multi-node applications

Apply today or contact Wendy Firestone, Director of Talent, at wendy AT grossmandorland DOT com to learn more.

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