Senior Software Engineer - Integration

Develop features across the full vehicle software stack: sensor interfaces, communication layers, diagnostics, and system services

Integrate and validate subsystems from multiple teams into a unified, working platform

Build and maintain backend infrastructure and tooling that support vehicle operations

Design and implement inter-process and inter-system communication for vehicle and operator systems

Contribute to OTA update pipelines and deployment workflows in collaboration with the full-stack team

Write unit tests and help establish integration testing practices across the codebase

Participate in remote support rotations, including occasional early/late hours

B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.

4+ years of professional software engineering in C/C++ and Python

Strong computer systems fundamentals: OS internals, memory management, process lifecycle, IPC

Hands-on embedded Linux experience at the application level

Comfortable reading schematics and understanding hardware interfaces at a conceptual level

Demonstrated ability to work across multiple subsystems and codebases

Comfortable working on-site in Palo Alto, CA

Linux systems programming: sockets, serial, device interfaces, systemd, debugging tools

CAN bus protocols and serial communication

Building and integrating multi-process systems with complex inter-component dependencies

Debugging at the system level: logs, traces, packet captures, core dumps

Working in cross-functional environments alongside firmware, perception, and controls teams

ROS experience

Networking fundamentals: VLANs, Layer 2/3 debugging, packet analysis

Rust

Experience bootstrapping test infrastructure: CI integration testing, hardware-in-the-loop setups

Early-stage startup experience — comfortable with broad scope and fast iteration