Perception Systems Engineer - Embedded Linux & Sensors

Parallel; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 212,000; Full time

Job summary

Parallel Systems is seeking an Embedded Software Engineer, Perception, to build the low-level software powering our perception sensing stack on autonomous, battery-electric rail vehicles. You will own drivers, kernel components, and firmware for high-throughput sensors and real-time data pipelines.

You will work at the boundary of Linux, ARM, and NVIDIA Jetson/Tegra platforms, optimize latency, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to bring up hardware and harden drivers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 4+ years hands-on embedded, firmware, or systems software engineering.
• Strong Linux internals and driver development on ARM platforms.
• Proficiency in Rust and C++ for systems-level programming.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain drivers, kernel modules, and firmware for embedded Linux systems on ARM/NVIDIA compute platforms.
• Write low-level systems software in Rust and C/C++ for perception-critical components.
• Build and optimize drivers for high-throughput sensors and data pipelines.
• Own real-time performance, timesync, latency, and jitter reductions across pipelines.
• Test and validate sensor configuration changes across firmware and sensor revisions.
• Profile and optimize GPU/kernel performance on NVIDIA platforms to meet real-time constraints.

Skills

Embedded Linux

Driver development

Rust

C++

ARM platforms

NVIDIA Jetson/Tegra

Sensor pipelines

Real-time systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE

Tools

Yocto build

V4L2

GStreamer

MIPI CSI-2

ROS2

Job description

Parallel Systems is seeking an Embedded Software Engineer, Perception, to build the low-level software powering our perception sensing stack on autonomous, battery-electric rail vehicles. You will own drivers, kernel components, and firmware for high-throughput sensors and real-time data pipelines.

You will work at the boundary of Linux, ARM, and NVIDIA Jetson/Tegra platforms, optimize latency, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to bring up hardware and harden drivers.