Staff Software Engineer, Autonomy Actions

About the Role

We are looking for a staff engineer to improve the quality, reliability, and robustness of our subsystems for decision making, motion planning, and controls. You will collaborate with the team to implement the highest value and highest priority quality improvements, including documenting and iterating ICDs, enhancing error checking, diagnostics and status reporting, improving compiler support and static analysis integration, eliminating memory allocation at runtime, and building subsystem validation capabilities. Developing and deploying agentic AI agents to help with implementing and enforcing these new design and validation principles will be a key deliverable in this role.

Responsibilities

• Help the team deliver critical quality initiatives before commercial driverless launch.
• Work closely with subsystem owners and experts to implement identified initiatives.
• Enhance software quality assessments before software reaches the vehicle.
• Improve unrecoverable MRM rates and perform root cause analysis of complex issues within the Planning and Controls stack reported by the triage team.
• Apply advanced AI agents, including agentic agents, to streamline and enhance the development process.
• Present your work to the team to demonstrate how to maintain the highest level of software quality.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field. A Master’s or Ph.D. is preferred.
• Expertise in C++ software optimization and defensive programming for embedded systems (e.g., MISRA), including functional safety-rated systems.
• Comfortable navigating and contributing to large, complex codebases where modularity and documentation are key.
• Experience designing and developing architecture and tools to verify complex subsystems of autonomous vehicles.
• Experience in Interface Contract Documentation and contract enforcement.
• Experience in compiler integration and optimization of complex codebases.
• Capable of working across teams to identify, prioritize, and execute software quality and performance improvements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with autonomous vehicles or vehicle automation systems.
• Knowledge of functional safety processes and implementation.

Schedule

We encourage a hybrid schedule with in-office time at one of our locations in Boston, Pittsburgh, or Las Vegas to support collaboration, or this role can be fully remote.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $172,000 USD - $229,000 USD. This range reflects base salary only and may include additional forms of compensation such as a bonus or company equity.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401k with a company match.
• Health savings accounts.
• Life insurance.
• Pet insurance.
• And more.