Edge AI Software Engineer - On-Device ML & Vehicle Data

Socket.dev; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health coverage

Retirement savings

Time off

Family planning programs

Job summary

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is seeking an early-career software engineer to tackle real systems problems in-vehicle software. You will write C++/Rust services that run on constrained hardware across Linux, Android, and QNX, and contribute to telemetry, data upload, and embedded ML workloads.

You will also push for high reliability, implement instrumentation for field debugging, and collaborate with teams on performance budgets and latency targets to ship robust performance across

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of software engineering experience, or a BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with equivalent demonstrated building experience.
• Demonstrated evidence of building complex software systems.
• Strong Linux and systems fundamentals: processes, threading and concurrency, memory, inter-process communication, and filesystems, plus the ability to debug a running system with tools like gdb, perf, and strace.
• Proficiency in either C++ or Rust.
• Ability to do methodical debugging on large interconnected systems.
• Clear written communication in design docs, tickets, and code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Design and build native services in C++/Rust that run on vehicle compute across Linux, Android, and QNX targets.
• Work on the telemetry platform: signal collection, metrics derived on the vehicle rather than in the cloud, diagnostics, and the tooling engineering teams use to configure what a fleet reports.
• Improve the vehicle data upload path, including throughput and reliability over WiFi and cellular, event-triggered and on-demand retrieval, and the cost of moving data at fleet scale.
• Deploy and optimize ML models on the vehicle's NPU, including speech recognition, synthesis, and wake-word detection, and hold them to per-platform latency and accuracy targets.
• Instrument what you build so it can be debugged in the field, then use that data to find and fix problems on real vehicles.
• Benchmark, soak test, and defend performance budgets so regressions are caught before they ship.
• Write design docs, review code, and debug on bench hardware and in vehicles.

Skills

C++ or Rust

Linux fundamentals

Debugging proficiency

System design

Written communication

Education

BS/MS in CS/CE/EE or related field

Tools

ONNX Runtime

TensorRT

TFLite

llama.cpp

ExecuTorch

Android NDK/SDK or AOSP

gRPC / IPC frameworks

Job description

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is seeking an early-career software engineer to tackle real systems problems in-vehicle software. You will write C++/Rust services that run on constrained hardware across Linux, Android, and QNX, and contribute to telemetry, data upload, and embedded ML workloads.

You will also push for high reliability, implement instrumentation for field debugging, and collaborate with teams on performance budgets and latency targets to ship robust performance across