Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Stack, a company developing revolutionary AI and autonomous systems for the trucking industry, as an onboard infrastructure engineer. You will be part of a team building scalable middleware for self-driving vehicles. Your responsibilities include developing core middleware, integrating hardware peripherals, implementing automated tests, identifying performance bottlenecks, and designing intuitive APIs. This role requires experience with performance-critical applications in resource-constrained environments, strong C/C++ skills, and a solid understanding of POSIX. Excellent communication and teamwork are essential.

Requirements

• Experience building performance critical applications deployed in resource constrained environments, for use in real world applications with a strong understanding of the pros and cons of various approaches
• Strong experience with C/C++
• Strong understanding of the POSIX programming environment
• Familiarity with software engineering and algorithm design and architecture patterns
• Familiarity with concurrent and parallel programming
• Excellent communication and teamwork

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of various components of our onboard infrastructure and tooling, in partnership with teams in Autonomy, Cloud Simulation, and Safety to meet our product needs
• Deliver the SW interfaces and test suites to integrate hardware peripherals into next-generation vehicle architecture
• Principled use of automated tests and code quality tooling to build a regression-resilient system
• Identify bottlenecks and limitations in system performance, and develop novel approaches to unlock new capabilities and ensure a reliable system
• Strike a balance between performance, user experience, and maintainability for core components that are used across our product development organization
• Constantly evaluate tradeoffs that need to be made in a resource-constrained environment, and work closely with hardware and firmware engineers to drive initiatives that enable our robotics middleware to maximize system capabilities
• Participate in the design of our middleware APIs, to ensure that they are intuitive to use correctly, are performant, and ultimately stand the test of time

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with common tooling and libraries such as bazel, boost, abseil etc is a plus
• Familiarity with Python
• Experience with writing high performance code in Linux is a plus