Software Engineer, Simulation

Summary

Join Cavnue, a company revolutionizing roadways with smart technology, as a Software Engineer, Simulation. You will play a key role in enhancing and integrating the simulation ecosystem into Cavnue's platform. This hands-on position involves developing new capabilities for ML, testing, and hardware workflows, improving simulation performance, and building user-friendly solutions. You will contribute to the architecture and integration of simulation components with partners. Your work will directly impact Cavnue's technology and roadmap, contributing to a positive engineering culture. The role requires significant software development experience and expertise in simulation technologies. Cavnue offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience in professional software development
• Skilled in both C++ (>11) and Python3
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and execution
• Experience with testing, validation and maintenance of complex and distributed software systems
• Understanding of limitations of existing simulation platforms and technologies
• Experience working in modern development environments and using tools such as Git, GitHub, Jira, Confluence – or similar tools – which include complex operations and workflows
• Experience working cross-functionality with various engineering disciplines
• A history of building software in highly collaborative environments
• Comfortable working in a Linux environment

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for foundational simulation ecosystem changes and integrations
• Support the interface between simulation and the rest of Cavnue’s platform and data pipelines
• Improve simulation performance: both directly and by building tools to help others
• Build solutions that allow users to self-serve, or to get help, to accelerate their own work
• Ensure the reproducibility of simulation results and traceability of data artifacts
• Participate in the selection of primary development tools and processes
• Write high-quality code with thoughtful design, good patterns and practices, standards adoption, lifecycle testing, documentation, and continuous monitoring for opportunities to improve
• Participate in overall architecture design and iteration, evolving our processes, and making key technical decisions to enable simulation to integrate smoothly with deployment, configuration and monitoring tools
• Support the design and approach for simulation integration (tools, APIs) across multiple simulation platforms both within Cavnue and across the partner ecosystem

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in developing and extending simulation ecosystems used in automotive, aerospace or equivalent fields/disciplines
• Experience with containerization: creation, orchestration and execution
• Understanding and experience interacting with different sensor modalities and the data they produce (camera, lidar, radar)
• Experience with “in-the-loop” integrations of hardware or major software platforms
• Experience with multiple mapping providers and integration of network and lane level maps with simulation
• Practical experience with Google’s Protocol Buffers
• Applied Intuition (ADP, Simian), VISSIM, TransCAD, SUMO experience or similar
• Familiarity with geospatial analytics tools and platforms

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Life insurance and disability insurance
• 401(k) with 4% company contribution - no waiting period
• Parental and adoption leave
• Fertility and infertility benefits
• Wellness perks including access to on-demand primary care, virtual health appointments, and online mental health therapy
• Generous PTO bank, including paid year-end holiday shutdown
• Company-sponsored lunches twice weekly (in office)
• Learning and development opportunities
• Top-of-the-line equipment
• Additional Compensation: The successful candidate may be eligible to participate in Cavnue's equity program and/or a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing such programs