Principal Software Engineer

Groe Advisors LLC; Waltham (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Groe Advisors LLC in Massachusetts is seeking a Principal Software Engineer with expertise in embedded, real-time, and computer vision systems to lead low-latency software development.

You will optimize a C++ codebase, design real-time components, mentor engineers, and collaborate with SQA, DevOps, and hardware teams to deliver robust, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience in C++ for embedded real-time systems.
• Strong background in performance and reliability.
• Knowledge of real-time determinism and low latency.
• Experience with embedded hardware interfaces and testing.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve a C++ codebase with focus on performance and reliability.
• Build C++ components using industry-standard patterns and deployment models.
• Design and implement real-time systems with deterministic performance and low latency.
• Develop multithreaded applications with modern C++ concurrency primitives.
• Participate in code reviews and mentor junior developers.
• Collaborate with SQA, DevOps, and hardware engineers.
• Integrate ML inference engines into fast-path pipelines with minimal latency impact.
• Translate algorithms into optimized C++ code and fix defects and bottlenecks.

Skills

Embedded systems

Real-time

Computer vision

C++

Multithreading

Concurrency

Lock-free

CI/CD

Code reviews

Mentoring

ML inference

Hardware interfaces

Performance optimization

Job description

We are looking for a principal software engineer with expertise in embedded, real-time, and computer vision systems.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and improve existing C++ codebase with a focus on performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Build C++ software components that follow industry-standard design patterns, development methodologies, and deployment models
• Design and implement real-time systems with deterministic performance and low-latency requirements.
• Develop multithreaded applications using modern C++ concurrency primitives, thread synchronization, and lock-free programming.
• Participate in code reviews and mentor junior developers.
• Contribute to system design and architecture discussions.
• Support build automation and CI/CD pipelines.
• Translate mathematical algorithms into optimal C++ code.
• Identify and resolve software defects and performance bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including SQA, DevOps, and hardware engineers.
• Integrate ML inference engines into fast-path pipelines with minimal latency impact while optimizing control software for embedded systems and real-time hardware interfaces.
• Perform technical performance benchmarking and analyses to support engineering decisions.
• Write clean, well-documented, and testable code.
• Maintain quality throughout software development through peer code review, unit and functional testing.